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A study about the house work for Fengshui crafts in

Taiwan area
Rui-Nan Tan
Associate Professor, Department of Interior Design, Tainan Womans College of Arts &
Technology

Abstracts
Fengshui craft is an article for Fengshui technique in building, that had taking some
ceremony, bestows on the function of pacify and guard. The Taiwan Fengshui technique was
inclined to occur and defeat of the five elements, good or evil omen, weal or woe, extending
chance, gathering wealth. Overemphasize the taboo and groundless stories too much,
therefore it can not throw off the appearance of superstition. The scholars have been
accumulating much result about Fengshui history, theory and comprehension in the science
modern.
This plan is prepared to chronicle the icon crafts of Taiwan dwelling house that has
handled by Fengshui technique, in order to search and compare the data of Fengshui annals.
In the field of Chinese traditional architecture, the knowledge of Fengshui deeply influences
the shape of the environment and architecture. For understanding traditional architecture, to
figure out the influence of Fengshui acting on traditional architecture will be inevitable.

To

arrange the Fengshui craft function and valuation by generalize and analysis of science, which
could accommodate the reference to ideal space research.
Keywords: Fengshui, Fengshui Crafts, Traditional architecture.

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