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The ancient Chinese system of feng shui seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings.(Brief article)

National Review

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The ancient Chinese system of feng shui seeks to improve one's health and fortune by arranging one's living and working spaces so as to be in harmony with their natural surroundings. Consider, for example, the case of Fumin County, in southwest China. The county is of course administered by a committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and that committee has an office building, which unfortunately faces the barren face of a mountain--barren because it was used as a quarry until recently. Quarrying scars the landscape and offends the ...

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