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風水 is the famous technique and approach to arranging your home externally around natural features and internally to create balance and peace.
These two characters literally mean “wind water.” Obviously, the title is far more simple than the concept behind this subject.
It may enlighten you slightly to know that the character for “wind” can also mean style, custom, or manner in some contexts. This may apply somewhat to this title.
In a technical sense, this title is translated as Chinese geomancy.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 風水 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
風水 风水 see styles |
fēng shuǐ feng1 shui3 feng shui fuusui / fusui ふうすい |
More info & calligraphy: Feng Shui(1) feng shui; fengshui; (2) wind and water; (female given name) Fumi geomancy |
風水害 see styles |
fuusuigai / fusuigai ふうすいがい |
storm and flood damage |
風水師 see styles |
fuusuishi / fusuishi ふうすいし |
(See 風水・1) fengshui practitioner; fengshui master |
風水説 see styles |
fuusuisetsu / fusuisetsu ふうすいせつ |
feng shui; fengshui; feng shui tradition |
風水雨 see styles |
fēng shuǐ yǔ feng1 shui3 yu3 feng shui yü |
wind, floods, and rain (?) |
風水先生 风水先生 see styles |
fēng shuǐ xiān sheng feng1 shui3 xian1 sheng5 feng shui hsien sheng |
feng shui master; geomancer; stock figure in folk tales, as a wise adviser or a charlatan |
風水羅盤 see styles |
fuusuiraban / fusuiraban ふうすいらばん |
(See 風水・ふうすい・1) luopan; geomantic compass; feng shui compass |
風水輪流 风水轮流 see styles |
fēng shuǐ lún liú feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 feng shui lun liu |
see 風水輪流轉|风水轮流转[feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 zhuan4] |
風水都市 see styles |
fuusuitoshi / fusuitoshi ふうすいとし |
(See 風水・1) city built according to the principles of fengshui |
風水輪流轉 风水轮流转 see styles |
fēng shuǐ lún liú zhuàn feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 zhuan4 feng shui lun liu chuan |
fortunes rise and fall; times change |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Feng Shui | 風水 风水 | fuu sui / fuusui / fu sui | fēng shuǐ feng1 shui3 feng shui fengshui | |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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