Feng Shui Tips is an independent reference site covering feng shui for homeowners. We combine the classical Chinese systems — the bagua, the five elements, the Eight Mansions and Xuan Kong Flying Stars — with practical advice for modern homes, and we back every guide with free tools where a calculation is involved.
What feng shui is, in our view
Feng shui (風水, literally "wind and water") is a traditional Chinese practice of reading and shaping a space so it supports the people who live in it. It is a design system with a cosmological framework: the idea that a building has a direction, that energy moves through it, and that how you arrange what sits where changes how the space feels and functions.
Much of it is metaphorical, and we do not pretend otherwise. But a large part translates into genuinely useful advice about light, proportion, circulation, rest, sightlines and clutter. A bedroom where you can see the door from the bed is a better bedroom whether or not you invoke qi. A kitchen where the work triangle is unobstructed works better. We think the honest way to write about feng shui is to say which rules have a physical basis and which are symbolic, and let readers decide how much weight to give each.
Where we get our sources
Our guides draw on three layers of material:
- Classical texts. The Book of the Law of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi Zhaijing), the Zang Shu (Book of Burial), the Yang Zhai San Yao (Three Essentials of a Residence), the Qing Nang Jing (Green Bag Classic) and the Yan Jie (Expanding the Room Meanings). These are the source texts for the bagua, the Lo Shu grid, the 24 mountains and the 28 mansions.
- The working schools. The Eight Mansions (Ba Gua / Kua), Form and School (Xing Shi), Compass School (Cai Na) and the Xuan Kong Flying Stars systems, each with its own practical literature.
- Modern practitioner writing and building physics. Where a traditional rule has a parallel in light, ventilation, acoustics or ergonomics, we say so and give the measurable version — angles, distances, ratios and lux levels.
How we write and edit
Every guide goes through the same process. We identify the actual search intent behind a question, check the classical rules that apply, test them against how real homes are built today, and then write only the parts that would change what someone does on Saturday morning.
We avoid two things consistently. The first is invented authority — we do not cite studies that do not exist, we do not quote made-up practitioners, and we do not present a rule as classical when it is really just a modern internet habit. The second is false certainty. Where the classical sources disagree with each other, we say so and explain which reading we follow and why.
Our full editorial policy, including how to request a correction, is on the editorial policy page.
Our tools
We built the free tools because a feng shui question is often just arithmetic in disguise. The kua number formula, the Lo Shu flying order, the bagua palace map and the five-element relationships are all deterministic — they have one right answer. Our tools show their working so you can check them, run entirely in your browser, and collect nothing.
Corrections and contact
If you find an error, we want to know. Email our editorial desk with the URL and what you believe is wrong. We correct errors on the page itself rather than quietly, and we note substantive changes in the article's update date.
What we do not do
We do not sell feng shui objects, we do not take paid placements for products in our guides, and we do not accept payment to improve a ranking or a review. If we ever recommend a product, it will be because it is the right tool for the job, and we will say so plainly when a product is not worth buying.
We also do not make claims we cannot support. We will not tell you that a colour cures an illness, that a number guarantees a fortune, or that an arrangement will fix a structural problem. Feng shui can inform how a space works. It cannot do the work of a builder, an electrician or a doctor.