The ancient Chinese system of feng shui seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings.The ancient Chinese List of ancient Chinese is a list of noteworthy people of ancient China. Different definitions of "ancient" China exist, but most agree that it is before the Tang dynasty. Related lists A general listing of existing lists related to this topic. system of feng shui Feng shui Traditional Chinese method of arranging the human and social world in auspicious alignment with the forces of the cosmos, including qi and yin-yang. It was devised during the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220). seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings. Consider, for example, the case of Fumin County, in southwest China Southwest China (Chinese: 西南; pinyin: Xinan) is a region of China defined by governmental bureaus that includes the municipality of Chongqing; provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou; and the Tibet Autonomous Region. . The county is of course administered by a committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese Communist party: see Communist party, in China. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political party founded in China in 1921 by Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Mao Zedong, and others. , and that committee has an office building, which unfortunately faces the barren face of a mountain--barren because it was used as a quarry until recently. Quarrying scars the landscape and offends the spirits of the earth. Bad feng shui! What to do? After much secret consultation, in which no doubt Marxist-Leninist dialectic dialectic (dīəlĕk`tĭk) [Gr.,= art of conversation], in philosophy, term originally applied to the method of philosophizing by means of question and answer employed by certain ancient philosophers, notably Socrates. was rigorously applied, the party committee decided to paint the mountainside green. They proceeded to do so, with ten workers spraying the mountainside with green paint for twenty days. Cue Rodgers & Hart: "In a mountain greenery / Where God paints the scenery ..." In a Communist country there is no God, so scenery-painting has to be done by the laboring masses. |
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