For over three thousand years, Chinese civilization has understood that the arrangement of space affects the people who inhabit it — that where you sleep, how your door faces, what flows past your window and what sits on your desk are not neutral facts but energetic relationships. Feng shui is the systematic study of these relationships: a cosmology, a design philosophy and a practical toolkit that begins with the movement of qi through the landscape and ends with where to put the mirror.
This section covers both the traditional Chinese system — with its philosophical depth, multiple schools and centuries of refinement — and the practical application that makes feng shui immediately useful. Where Western commercial feng shui has simplified or distorted the original, we say so. Where the traditional system is genuinely complex, we do not pretend otherwise.