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Reading home, land, and tradition
Longer-form writing on the three traditions DwellSoul reads by — what they look for in a house, and why.
Phong Thủy
Vietnamese home geomancy (Phong Thủy): the lived home and the family line
Vietnam kept the classical method — compass and landform alike — and rooted it in the home as it is lived: the ancestor altar in the place of honor, the household's year weighed before a family builds. A practitioner's introduction to Phong Thủy.
June 13, 20266 min read
Pungsu (풍수)
Korean home geomancy (Pungsu · 풍수): how Korea reads a house
Korea received feng shui from China and made it its own — reading the land before the compass. A practitioner's introduction to Pungsu, and what it looks for in a home.
June 13, 20266 min read
Pungsu (풍수)
Mountain behind, water in front: the Korean siting ideal (Baesan-Imsu)
The single most recognizable principle of Korean Pungsu, read on a real lot: why a home wants a backing mountain behind and open, lower ground ahead — and what a true backing form is.
June 13, 20265 min read
Phong Thủy
The household's year: Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc, and Tam Tai
Before a Vietnamese family builds, buys, or breaks ground, it checks the head of household's age against three popular cycles. What each marks, why a year is judged ill-suited to a major undertaking, and the old workaround of borrowing an auspicious age.
June 13, 20266 min read
Feng Shui (風水)
Chinese Feng Shui (風水): how the source tradition reads a home
Feng shui is the written root from which Korea's Pungsu and Vietnam's Phong Thủy each grew. A practitioner's introduction to its two great schools, the apparatus they carry, and what a Chinese reading looks for in a home.
June 13, 20267 min read