In Chinese culture, fengshui is very important. With the help of the record of historical document, we have inferred and concluded the two features of choosing living places developing during the Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasty. These two features are: first, the promotion of the technology, second the eager to predict the future has pushed forward the mystery of choosing the place to live in.

Let’s see it in a further stage. The divination has pushed forward the Chinese culture of fengshui developing from experience to mystery. At the same time, it interknits its development. On one hand, do divination when the primitives chose the living environment and program of building the house. It has been the reference to predict the fate in the future. On the other hand, the feasibility and reliability of these kind of references have to be approved by continues practice. Although the examination of confirmation has high reparability of randomness, the basic conditions are still the conclusion of the rich experience. Otherwise, these professional experts like “Bu Ren”, “Bu Guan” can not work well at that time.

Fengshui is so hard to understand well in Chinese culture. If we represent it like this, maybe it is too theorization for some readers. We might take an example as well. For example: when the man married, how much they hope the bride can stay together for ever. As usual, those wives who are more beautiful than Xi Shi may have high probability to have an affair than those common wives. And Xi Shi is considered as the most beautiful woman in ancient and modern China. There some examples that the beauty leads to the disaster. For example, Helen’s beautiful face had led to the Trojan War. Xi Wei who was the most beautiful woman in their country at that time had initiated the subjugation by her husband. All these suffered incidents made the people believe that the beautiful face may bring with bad things. Even though the results are contrary to predicts, and these predictions can be proved as the unfounded superstition. However, you have to admit that all these prediction which are considered as the superstition come to a conclusion from many examples. If there is a “Bu Ren” who can predict the fate using the above conclusion, and you represent the contrary fact to the “Bu Ren”. He also can give you a reasonable explanation on it by analyzing the all kinds of effecting matters from the process. What’s more, when he applied the conclusion to predict the fate later, he may get more experience. At the same time, the conclusion may be more perfect.

The classic book “Zhou Yi” is of significance in the theoretical construct in the history of traditional Chinese culture about fengshui. And it has come into been with the mature historical process. Majority traditional xengsin classics including some books about he xengsin in modern time introduce the xengsin by the theses from “Zhou Yi”.

It seems that it is hard to understand the fengshui without learning “Yi Xue”. However, the writer holds the different opinion with these reasons as follows:
First, human beings are born with the instinct to choose the living environment and the places to bury. However, the basic book “Zhou Yi” has been finished at least before the Shang, Zhou Dynasty or even after the Zhou Dynasty. In another words, human beings had began to practice the activities about the xengsin culture before Yi Xue coming into being a knowledge.

Moreover, the basic composition of the pictures in Zhou Yi evolved from the turtles. And we had known that applying this way to predict the fate of the living place has led the usual experience to be mystery. What’s more, it is an essential feature of Chinese culture about fegnshui at the beginning of Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasty.

Once more, the summery in language of Zhou Yi has directly reflected that the material for the primitives to choose the living place is various, too. The ancestors chose the high place to live in. this is a kind of attitude to obey the nature when choosing the living place. For example, the primitives had suffered the flood. However, they had avoided the death escaping to the mountain. Therefore, they had learnt from the disaster that it is safer when you live in a higher place.