FENG Chuan.Feng-shui politics: Society, market and state in the spatial order of Chinese rural tombs [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2022,21(4):74⁃84.
FENG Chuan.Feng-shui politics: Society, market and state in the spatial order of Chinese rural tombs [J]. Journal of Shanxi Agricultural University(Social Science Edition),2022,21(4):74⁃84. DOI: 10.13842/j.cnki.issn1671-816X.2022.04.008.
Feng-shui politics: Society, market and state in the spatial order of Chinese rural tombs
"Feng-shui" is a set of rules that endow each element in the space with a sequence of values and a sequence of causal mapping. According to the "feng-shui" rules, those elements that are considered to be high in the value sequence, occupy a superior position in the causal mapping sequence and affect and maintain the good situation of people in the scene can be called "feng-shui". The power allocation and power game around these "feng-shui resources" are "feng-shui politics". The appearance of the spatial order of the tombs in the village is the result of feng-shui politics. The three spatial orders of tombs, "scattered patterns in the village", "collective patterns in the collective cemetery in the village" and "collective patterns in the cemetery", correspond to "private negotiation of feng-shui", "ethical coordination of feng-shui" and "feng-shui", the three types of feng-shui political operation mechanisms. By comparison, it is found that when the work of changing customs in rural areas continues to advance, collective cemeteries in villages and government-run cemeteries are the direction of the evolution of tomb space order, and village-level autonomous organizations and governments are the most appropriate political leaders of geomantic feng-shui.