IV. Development of "Feng Shui"
in foreign countries
Overseas attitudes toward Chinese Feng Shui are roughly divided into three stages：
Stage 1: From the mid-17th century to the founding of New China, when the West invaded and took control of China, Feng Shui from the perspective of missionaries, officials and scholars belonged to exotic and backward superstitions.
Stage 2: From the founding of New China to the mid-1970s, during which time the British scholar Joseph Lee, in his book Chinese Science, Technology, and Civilization, examined the details of feng shui in detail and made an analysis of the aesthetic-cultural features involved.
Stage 3: From the mid-1970s to the present, when the global ecological crisis came to the forefront, international researchers noticed the qualities of Chinese feng shui in maintaining ecological balance, and gradually began to study feng shui in depth with an attitude of learning and borrowing, and achieved some results.
Today, "Feng Shui" has long been a part of environmental science in the West. In Asia, the influence of Chinese Feng Shui is even more far-reaching and widespread, and there are even many derivatives of Feng Shui.
In Japan, Feng Shui has influenced every aspect of people's lives.
V. The science of "feng shui
Feng Shui, inherited in China for thousands of years, due to the inheritance process part of the people who do not learn the art of excellence or under the banner of feng shui fraud, resulting in feng shui is a feudal superstition.
Feng Shui is in fact a traditional cultural outlook, a widely spread folklore, an art of seeking good fortune and avoiding bad luck, a learning about the environment and people, and at the same time, the highest metaphysical science of adjusting and transforming destiny.