Q 01/05

What do the two words feng shui literally mean?

A) Wind-water

B) Sun-moon

C) Earth-sky

D) Fire-stone

Answer · why

A) Wind-water

Wind-water: a classic credited to a 4th-century poet taught that the life force scatters when it rides the wind and is held where it meets water, and ...

Q 02/05

What is the name of the cosmic current or energy that feng shui seeks to direct?

A) Dao

B) Qi

C) Wu

D) Li

Answer · why

B) Qi

Qi, literally 'breath' or 'air', is the same life force that acupuncture needles are meant to set flowing freely through the body; feng shui tries to ...

Q 03/05

Feng shui is traditionally described as a form of what?

A) Numerology

B) Geomancy

C) Astrology

D) Alchemy

Answer · why

B) Geomancy

Geomancy, literally 'earth divination': the word first belonged to an unrelated art of the Arab world and medieval Europe, reading fortunes from a han...

Q 04/05

Which two Neolithic cultures give the earliest known evidence for feng shui?

A) Yangshao and Hongshan

B) Liangzhu and Dawenkou

C) Shang and Zhou

D) Longshan and Erlitou

Answer · why

A) Yangshao and Hongshan

Before the magnetic compass, feng shui relied on astronomy.

Q 05/05

The valley of thirteen imperial tombs near Beijing, chosen by feng shui, holds emperors of which dynasty?

A) Han

B) Tang

C) Ming

D) Qing

Answer · why

C) Ming

Ming: the Yongle Emperor, builder of the Forbidden City, picked the mountainside site for his own tomb, and a dozen of his successors followed him the...