feng shui
suomi-englanti sanakirjafeng shui englannista suomeksi
feng shui, fengshui
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feng shui englanniksi
A system of spiritual energies, both good and evil, present in the natural features of landscapes.
(quote-journal), and published by James West(nb...)|date=15 March 1869|year_published=7 June 1869|volume=XI|issue=315|page=258|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDBBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA258|column=2|oclc=759782421|passage=On my telling two missionaries here lately that this Government would not allow a road to be made to their coal mines because it would obstruct the Feng-shui, they only laughed at it. ... The upper classes may have Feng-shui, and use it when it suits them, as the Government do; but they also, when it suits their purpose, have no difficulty in overcoming the Feng Shui.
(quote-book)|chapter=Introductory|title=Feng-shui: Or, The Rudiments of Natural Science in China|location=London|publisher=Trübner|Trübner & Co.|year=1873|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=m2lbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2|oclc=33988289|passage=When the Hongkong Government cut a road, now known as the Gap, to the Happy Valley, the Chinese community was thrown into a state of abject terror and fright, on account of the disturbance which this amputation of the dragon's limbs would cause to the Feng-shui of Hongkong; and when many of the engineers, employed at the cutting, died of the Hongkong fever, and the foreign houses already built in the Happy Valley had to be deserted on account of malaria, the Chinese triumphantly declared, it was an act of retributory justice on the part of Feng-shui.
(quote-journal),(nb...)|month=March|year=1874|volume=XXIX|issue=171|page=343|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA343|oclc=561748243|passage=Feng-Shui views heaven and earth, the whole universe, as one great fetich, animated by a blind unintelligent but omnipotent vitality, a vitality in which man shares, and of which, by the exercise of his intelligent faculties, he may procure a larger and better share than would otherwise fall to his lot. As a practical art, Feng-Shui is the terrestrial sister of Astrology, a mode of deciphering the destinies of an individual as included in the vast complications of the universal whole, but in this respect the earthly sister excels her star-gazing prototype, that by means of Feng-Shui a man learns not only what his fate is, but how it may be modified to his own advantage.
(quote-book)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office|date=15 September 1878|year_published=1879|page=187|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XAWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187|oclc=1060917057|passage=The following are translated copies of placards which have been extensively posted in the city and suburbs during the past week: ... "... On recovering our Feng Shui land, then the state will be prosperous, the people peaceable, the winds moderate, and the rains favorable. Let all the people exert themselves."
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An ancient Chinese system of geomancy used to design buildings and graves, and to determine the spatial arrangement of things, according to rules about the flow of energy, aimed at achieving harmony with the environment, promoting good fortune and wealth, etc.
(quote-journal). ... Therefore, Feng-Shui requires the tombs of the deceased to be on specially fortunate ground, where there shall be a proper combination of male and female, the male being represented by hilly country, the female by gently undulating ground. At the junction of these two grounds, where they form a bend like the elbow of a man's arm, is the propitious site for tombs and also for cities. Such a site has been chosen for the city of Canton.
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The state of having a space in a particular order, though not necessarily in accordance with any actual principles of the Chinese system of geomancy.
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(quote-book) Monograph Series|seriesvolume=no. 5|location=Westport, Conn.; London|publisher=Publishing Group|Greenwood Press|year=1998|page=217|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hfr7Us7PhGkC&pg=PA217|isbn=978-0-313-29963-6|issn=1041-2751|passage=Library school seemed like gay intellectual paradise to me. After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.
''Al voor de eerste helft van de 15de eeuw was de gehele nieuwe stad klaar, geheel volgens de regels van Feng Shui.''http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoel — Already by the first half of the 15th century, the whole new city was completed, entirely according to the rules of feng shui.
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