Fengshui is one kind of Chinese culture phenomenon in ancient China. There has no an exact definition and nature of fengshui. The answers to this matters can not been taken into statistics from all ages in the world. However, there is one approvable point from them. All of them think that both the producing of the fengshui and applying relate to the activities of choosing living place. Therefore, someone hold the opinion that the fengshui can be called as “choosing living place technique” (择居术) or “the concept of choosing living place”（择居观念）. And “居” is regarded as “家” here. Let talk about the fengshui starting from the discussion of “家”.

We can see that in the ancestors’ opinion “家” was the house for the family members to live and the place to sacrifice the death from the character pattern of the word “家”. And the origin of “家” can be date back to earlier time. The cavemen who lived in the 18,000 years ago, they buried the dead in the caves where they lived. The Chinese culture costume of bury was called as “家内葬” by the folklore. The Neanderthal men who lived in the Paleolithic Period and the old sites which were left in the Neolithic Age in the south of China are the evidence to research the “家内葬” such as the thousand immortals hole in Jiang Xi province. It is considered that the ancestor in China usually held a funeral first and then buried the dead. That is laying the dead at home in a certain period and then sent the dead to the tomb for burying. And this is exact meaning left from the old generations.

The reprint of “家”—“冢”
About fengshui, In the common saying, the dead who can not be buried in a place used to be called as “游魂野鬼”. The meaning of these dead is similar to the living people who do not have a place to live in. in the ancestors’ opinion, the meaning of bury for the dead is similar to the meaning of the house for the living people. Therefore, they build the house according to the shape of the mountains for the living people. And later, they also build the tomb for the dead according to the mountains. The grave which is offer to have a rest for the dead generation is also called as “穴”. In another words, the dead generation is similar to the living people. Both the dead and the living people live in a shadow of History Mountains.

In Chinese culture, the fengshui of tomb is very important. Many Chinese people think it will influence family. Recently archaeological workers have found the tombs left from Shang Zhou Dynasty in the south of Jing Chu area. And most of the tombs are the shapes of mound. All these indicate that people change with the living conditions. The types of bury have developed into diversification such as the bury in the cliff hole and the rock hole. Among all the types of bury, the main form of bury is that bury the dead into the earth. The based construction is those buries the dead into a hole and make a mound models like the mountains.

The historical projection of the grotto in the mountain
In Chinese culture, fengshui include lots of things. Once the stone are the earliest place for the human beings to settle down and get on with their pursuit. They did not have the ability to build the house; therefore, they only can search for the shelters to settle down in the nature. The grotto carves in the nature formed when the crustal movement happened. These grotto carves were used to protect the human beings from the wind, the rains and the beasts. For the ancestors, these grotto were the most comfortable and safe place to live in.

The experience in the mountains for a long time has given deep impression that the human beings were developing from the mountains. The images of mountains finally came into the human beings’ concept and became the reference of buildings.