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Feng shui
(pronounced "fung shway") is the ancient Chinese practice
of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony
with the environment. The literal translation is "wind
and water".Feng shui is not a decorating style. Rather,
it is a discipline whose guidelines are compatible with
many different decorating styles.The source of the term
is purported to come from the poem "The winds are wild/The
sun is warm/The water is clear/The trees are lush".
Feng shui is a discrete Chinese
belief system involving a mix of geographical, religious,
philosophical, mathematical, aesthetic, and astrological
ideas.For a place to have "good feng shui" is for it
to be in harmony with Nature, to have "bad feng shui"
is to be incongruous with Nature. People aren't usually
described as having good or bad feng shui themselves.It
is believed that certain people by force of personality
or visual appearance are able to add or sutract from
the feng shui of their surroundings.
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