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Feng Shui and the First Documented City Planning

The roots of feng shui are certainly ancient in China. It is likely that some geomantic considerations were responsible for the siting of the last capital of the Shang dynasty at Anyang, or at least the royal tombs to the north of the royal city. [...] With the establishment of the Zhou dynasty came the first documented city planning. The Zhou [...] were determinde to build a new capital in the center of their newly conquered lands. [...] The Classic of Documents describes the Grand Protector as laying out the city of Luo (present-day Luoyang) according to divinations that he performed on the site. This canonical pedigree has made the Grand Protector the patron saint of geomancers.

From China: Empire and Civilization by Edward Shaughnessy.

The above was posted to my personal weblog on April 16, 2004. My name is Peter Lindberg and I am a thirtysomething software developer and dad living in Stockholm, Sweden. Here, you’ll find posts in English and Swedish about whatever happens to interest me for the moment.

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