Form School

Feng shui is the Chinese practice of reading and arranging environments — choosing where to build, which way to face, how to lay out rooms — so that a site gathers and holds what the tradition calls qi. It is not one technique but a family of methods with a shared vocabulary, and its name is a job description: feng shui (风水, fengshui) literally means “wind and water,” the two natural agents that decide whether qi stays or goes. This page is the entry point to the feng shui articles on this site: the meaning and origin of the term, the core vocabulary, the two schools that split its method, what feng shui claims and does not claim, and how the practice reached the West.