Feng Shui
This series teaches feng shui from The Way of the Earth’s Veins (天纪：地脉道). Its first part covers the home: each of the eight family members forms a hexagram by sleeping in one of the eight zones, sixty-four placements in all. Landform follows: the dragon, the water, the bright hall and the rest of the surrounding mountains and rivers. The series closes with ancestral graves.
Method
Which trigram each family member and each of the eight zones holds, how two trigrams combine into a placement, where the zones are measured from, and what each placement is read for.
House placements
The Northwest zone holds eight placements: Heaven, Peace, Great Power, Waiting, Great Taming, Small Taming, Great Possession and Breakthrough.
The Southwest zone holds eight placements: Standstill, Earth, Enthusiasm, Holding Together, Splitting Apart, Contemplation, Progress and Gathering Together.
The East zone holds eight placements: The Unexpected, Return, Thunder, Difficulty at the Beginning, Nourishment, Increase, Biting Through and Following.
The North zone holds eight placements: Conflict, The Army, Deliverance, Water, Youthful Folly, Dispersion, Before Completion and Exhaustion.
The Northeast zone holds eight placements: Retreat, Modesty, Small Exceeding, Obstruction, Mountain, Gradual Progress, The Wanderer and Influence.
The Southeast zone holds eight placements: Coming to Meet, Pushing Upward, Duration, The Well, Decay, Wind, The Cauldron and Great Exceeding.
The South zone holds eight placements: Fellowship, Darkening of the Light, Abundance, After Completion, Grace, The Family, Fire and Revolution.
The West zone holds eight placements: Treading, Approach, The Marrying Maiden, Limitation, Decrease, Inner Truth, Opposition and Lake.
Landform
Feng shui in burial and in war: camp rules and warnings, ten posts set by earthly branch, the five divisions, and why fixed layouts must bend to terrain.
Landform feng shui’s basic terms: the dragon, water, bright hall, table and facing mountains, water mouth, sand, Green Dragon, White Tiger and the lair.
How to tell living, dead and hostile ranges apart and trace them, read yin and yang dragons on the 24 mountains, set the facing, and find the noblest.
What good water looks like, what water in the bright hall brings, and what foul water, stagnant water and a sweet spring each mean, with Taipei’s two rivers.
Each facing has one direction from which water must not flow toward the lair: the Eight Yellow Springs rhyme, its four groups, the sons’ lines and the compass.
The bright hall is the level ground in front of the lair: how large it can be, three bad halls and three good ones, and what the bright hall of a home is.
The table mountain is the nearest hill across the bright hall; the facing mountain faces the lair from afar. Their shapes bear on what a site produces.
The water mouth is where a site's waters meet and flow out, or flow in. How to find it, the rocks and hills that guard it, and examples from Guilin and Taipei.
The Green Dragon and White Tiger must branch from the incoming dragon itself. What a high lair costs, and the spurs that store wealth and back the Green Dragon.
An old sighting method fixes the lair where two lines cross, checked against the table mountain's height; then the soil's color and texture show if it is true.
Two charts add the 64 hexagrams to the compass: the round chart reckons time, the square chart fixes space. A yin line governs 6 years, a yang line 9.
A site's hexagram pairs the water mouth's direction with the lair's sitting mountain; the two charts show which son's line prospers, and for how long.
Feng shui for burying ancestors: the mountain that takes no grave, rules shared with house sites, what the dug pit shows, and which son's line prospers.