After hearing that Luo Hongyi was going to teach everyone about building feng shui, the students couldn't sit still and expressed their opinions one after another. I didn't even bother with the least gesture of raising my hand.

Some students immediately said: "Teacher Luo, architectural feng shui is useless." What age is it now, and superstition cannot be promoted. ”

Some said, "Yes, instead of wasting time on useless study, it is better to learn useful skills." ”

Others took out their mobile phones and searched for it, stood up and said, "Mr. Luo, Cihai has a definition of the word Feng Shui. Feng Shui, also known as Kanyu, is a superstition in ancient times. It is believed that the wind direction and water flow around the residential base or cemetery can incur a blessing or misfortune for the family of the person who lives in or is buried. It also refers to the law of the house and the tomb. ”

Luo Hongyi didn't answer, just quietly watched the students make a fuss. After a few minutes, perhaps frightened by Luo Hongyi's sharp eyes, or perhaps unable to find new arguments to refute, the students' own voices gradually became quieter until they disappeared.

After Luo Hongyi waited for the voice to disappear, he said, "Since you have finished speaking, it's time to listen to my opinion." ”

As he spoke, Luo Hongyi paced to the middle of the podium, propped up the lectern with both hands, leaned forward slightly, looked down on the students in the audience with a posture of looking down on all beings, and explained: "In recent years, scholars have different opinions on the definition of Cihai, and the main tendency is not to agree to equate feng shui with superstition. A well-known scholar argues that Feng Shui is a landscape evaluation system for finding auspicious locations for buildings, and that it is an art of geographical location and layout in ancient China, and that it cannot be simply called superstition or science according to Western concepts. It is also believed that the core content of Feng Shui is a kind of knowledge for people to choose and deal with the living environment, and its scope includes residences, palaces, temples, mausoleums, villages, and cities. Other scholars believe that Feng Shui is the relationship between the earth's magnetic field and human beings. We believe that Feng Shui is a traditional cultural phenomenon, a widely circulated folk custom, a technique for choosing good fortune and avoiding evil, a kind of knowledge about the environment and people, and a theory of the theory and practical system of the Yin and Yang houses, which is the accumulation of people's long-term practical experience. From the perspective of modern scientific theories, Feng Shui is a comprehensive science integrating geophysics, hydrogeology, environmental landscape, ecological architecture, cosmic astrology, geomagnetic field orientation, meteorology and human informatics. ”

The students below were confused.

Shi Qingying asked: "Teacher, can you say it simply, easy to understand, it's too professional to understand." ”

Luo Hongyi felt that his head was jumping, and he said a lot here, and he co-authored the piano to play the piano to the cow.

However, the students could not help but solve the problems they raised, so they patiently explained: "To put it bluntly, Feng Shui is also a kind of science, but it is a science that has not been discovered by people. But it's real. People just summed up the law, and they didn't know why it was. But just because we can't explain him doesn't mean we don't mean we don't know what he is. So, we still have to learn some feng shui knowledge. ”

Gao Shenghan raised his hand and asked, "Teacher Luo, you said that feng shui is a law summarized by people, is there any basis?"

Luo Hongyi motioned for him to sit down and explained: "This starts with the difference in the habits and ways of exploring science between my country and Western countries. Through my research on the history of the Song Kingdom and the history of Western development, I found a rather interesting phenomenon. Song scientists are accustomed to summarizing the laws and commonalities of things, and at the same time drawing inferences from one case and applying them to practice, that is, focusing on practicality. Western countries, on the other hand, are accustomed to studying the reasons for their existence from some common phenomena, exploring their essence, and studying their principles, that is, focusing on tracing the root causes. To give a simple example, the invention of gunpowder, the Song Kingdom was the first to study it, and then summed up the law, one sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, and then applied to fireworks and gunpowder weapons. The West, however, used its chemistry discipline to study its chemical reaction equations, and tried to improve them to develop other types of gunpowder. ”

Gao Shenghan was a little unconvinced when he heard Luo Hongyi's words, and asked again: "Teacher, do you mean that the research methods of the Song Kingdom are not as good as those of the West?"

Luo Hongyi replied: "Don't get excited, classmates, listen to what I have to say." What I just said is not to say that they are superior or inferior. Of course, now that the Song Kingdom has undergone a series of changes, it has begun to pay attention to the study of tracing the origin of advanced foreign things, taking their essence and removing their dross. However, this is by no means to say that this pragmatic approach to research in our country should be abandoned. As the pillars of the new generation of the Song Kingdom, you must learn to look at problems dialectically. In some places, you can use the research method of tracing the source by source, and in other places, you need to draw inferences from one another. For example, meridians and acupoints, these theories, with current science and technology, have not yet discovered their essence from the perspective of tracing back to the source, but this is real, and we can still use the laws summarized by our ancestors to apply. In addition, there is a similar Qigong, the same principle. Of course, if you take the meridians and acupoints summarized by your ancestors as the most basic essence, and then study other things on the basis of them, it can also be regarded as a method of tracing back to the source. ”

At this time, Zheng Jinglian raised his hand to ask, and the serious expression on his face seemed to express his solemn attitude: "Teacher Luo, is it too far-fetched for you to say that you have the same path in the end?"

"Really? I don't think so. Luo Hongyi said: "Let me ask you a question, what is an axiom?"

"Axioms refer to basic propositions that do not need to be proved after being tested by human beings through long-term and repeated practice. Zheng Jinglian replied without hesitation, after all, this is the knowledge that has been learned in junior high school.

"That's right. Luo Hongyi clapped his hands lightly in appreciation, and then said: "This definition has two implications. One is that axioms are all used as starting points for deriving other propositions. The second is that the axiom cannot be deduced from other axioms, otherwise it is not the starting point itself, but some kind of result that can be derived from the starting point. Do you disagree with that?"

"Nope. Zheng Jinglian replied: "What can be deduced is the theorem." ”

Well, in fact, these axioms and theorems are also scientific research methods summarized by the West. Let's borrow it. We regard the knowledge summarized from meridians and acupoints as axioms, and then the laws and techniques derived from them are regarded as theorems. In this way, can it be regarded as a scientific system?"

As soon as these words came out, the students in the audience fell into deep thought. This idea is a bit novel and not easy to accept.

Zheng Jinglian asked again: "Teacher, isn't it a bit far-fetched for you to link them together like this?"

"Why do you think that?"

"Because axioms are generally very simple and recognized things, if the knowledge of meridians and acupoints is taken as an axiom, this is really a bit unacceptable. ”

When Luo Hongyi heard this, she smiled and asked, "Okay, then let me ask you, axioms are recognized things, who will recognize them?"

"Civilians, of course. ”

"Can you give an example of an axiom?"

"It's very simple, let's say the axiom of equivalence, the same plus the equal, and the equal. Zheng Jinglian said very casually.

"Yes, the axiom of equal quantities, this is an axiom in mathematics, right? Then let me ask you, what field of people first proposed this axiom of, and what fields of people have it recognized?" Luo Hongyi asked rhetorically.

"This-" Zheng Jinglian was dumbfounded.

It can be inferred from history that this axiom was put forward at a time when compulsory education was not yet carried out, and most people did not have a systematic education. So the person who proposed this axiom must be someone in the field of mathematics. And this axiom has also been verified by people in the field of mathematics before it is used as a universally recognized 'starting point'. Right?"

"yes—" Zheng Jinglian replied not too surely.

"In the same way, shouldn't the axioms on meridians and acupoints also be received by medicine, to be exact, put forward by people in the field of Chinese medicine, and then verified by people in the field of Chinese medicine?"

"I guess so. ”

"Then this theory has actually been demonstrated by countless Chinese medicine practitioners of our ancestors, and there is nothing wrong with taking it as an axiom. ”

"This-"

"As for what you say that you can't call it an axiom because there are too many theories, that's even more nonsense. In Western science, many sciences are still contradictory, and haven't they also spread?"

"Teacher, do you have any basis for what you say?" The students are blowing up the pot now, science contradicts itself, and this is not something that can be said casually.

"Let's say, for example, the wave-particle duality of light. If you think about it, waves and grains are inherently contradictory and cannot exist at the same time. But isn't it interesting to list the results of the experiments as a special one because they can't explain them? If there are many such special beings, of course, this is very likely, after all, the universe is so vast that we have only developed one of the specimens of dust. Listing all these many special existences is less than the current meridian acupoint theory?"

At this time, Tang Chengzi, the little fat dun, asked, "Teacher, is it a little off-topic?" Didn't we say Feng Shui?"

"Is it off topic? Why didn't I think so. Luo Hongyi continued: "If you admit that the meridians and acupoints are a science studied by the ancients by drawing inferences from one case to another, then Feng Shui can also be said to be a science studied by the ancients by drawing inferences from one case to another. These are all laws summarized by the ancients, and they can be applied to practice at the same time. Now that you understand that Feng Shui is also a science, do you still have any resistance to learning this science?"

Luo Hongyi continued: "The science of feng shui has a long history in our country, and the first to define feng shui in history was Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty, who said in the Book of Burial: 'The mourner, be angry. The qi is dispersed by the wind, and the boundary water is stopped. The ancients gathered to make it not disperse, and the line made it stop, so it was called feng shui. Fan Yibin of the Qing Dynasty made a note for the "Book of Burial": "If there is no water, the wind will arrive and the air will disperse, and if there is water, the air will stop and the wind will not be, so the word feng shui is the most earthly, and the land of water is the first, and the land of Tibetan wind is secondary." That is to say, Feng Shui is an ancient technique related to vitality, and it can only be achieved when avoiding the wind and gathering water. What is anger? "Lü's Spring and Autumn - Ji Chun" cloud: "Anger is prosperous, yang qi vents." 'Vitality is the breath of the growth and development of all things, and it is the element that can rejuvenate vitality. ......”

Luo Hongyi quoted the scriptures and made an explanation, but seeing that the students below were a little drowsy, they didn't seem to have much interest, and they couldn't help but slander in their hearts, we have checked a lot of information for this teaching, and made up a lot of history, this is how you treat the teacher's achievements?

So Luo Hongyi changed his strategy and said: "Just now, I told you about the Feng Shui classics recorded in history, just to tell you that Feng Shui is also a science that has been summarized by learning, and can be used in practice. I think you still seem to have some suspicions, which is also very good, but I don't know if you can't tell the truth, and having a skeptical attitude is the correct spirit of study and research. So, let me give you a little bit of Feng Shui knowledge, and you can think about whether it is correct or not. Feng Shui says that no one can sit under the beam, which means not to sit under the beam for a long time, such as setting up a study desk, chair, computer desk, chair or sofa. Do you think that makes sense?"

Seeing that Luo Hongyi had come up with the question, the students below began to think and discuss in a whisper, trying to find loopholes and refute Mr. Luo's views.