Burial Feng Shui
How ancestral grave placement shapes family fortune in Chinese tradition
Burial Feng Shui Explained: Ancestral Graves and Family Fortune
In Chinese culture, where you bury your ancestors affects the fortune of their descendants. Burial feng shui — yin feng shui — is the most consequential and most controversial branch of feng shui practice.
Burial Feng Shui: Why the Dead Need Good Real Estate
In Chinese culture, where you bury your ancestors affects the fortune of their descendants. Burial feng shui is the art of finding the perfect grave site — and it has shaped Chinese geography for millennia.
How to Choose a Burial Site
Selecting a burial site in Chinese feng shui isn't about finding the prettiest hillside. It's a systematic analysis of landscape, water flow, soil quality, and directional energy that has been refined over two millennia.
Famous Tombs and Their Feng Shui
From the Ming Tombs to Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum, China's most famous burial sites were chosen with obsessive attention to feng shui principles. The stories behind these choices reveal how seriously the ancients took the relationship between the dead and the living.
Burial Feng Shui vs Modern Cremation
Traditional Chinese burial feng shui assumes an intact body in the earth. So what happens when cremation enters the picture? The tension between ancient practice and modern reality is reshaping how Chinese families think about death.