{"id":21437,"date":"2022-06-28T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/?post_type=expertsays&#038;p=21437"},"modified":"2022-07-29T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:44:58","slug":"amazing-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"expertsays","link":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/expertsays\/amazing-things-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"From 1-Hanzi Words To 2-Hanzi Words, Amazing Things Happen \u4ece\u4e00\u5b57\u8bcd\u5230\u4e8c\u5b57\u8bcd\uff0c\u8d28\u7684\u795e\u98de\u8dc3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u98ce\u6c34 (Feng Shui), one of the most well-known Chinese loanwords that made it to the English language and gained worldwide recognition, means the Harmony of Wind and Water.<\/p>\n<p>\u98ce\u6c34 (Feng Shui) contains two individual Chinese characters, called one-character-word. The \u98ce f\u0113ng means \u201cwind\u201d and the \u6c34shu\u01d0 means \u201cwater\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Group these two one-character words together into one word \u98ce\u6c34 (f\u0113ng shu\u01d0), a two-character-word that refers to the way of understanding and appreciating the harmony between people and their environment.<\/p>\n<p>One example can explain what is the \u98ce\u6c34 (f\u0113ng shu\u01d0). Place your home furniture or items to match the flowing of wind (\u98ce f\u0113ng, invisible energy or chi) and water (\u6c34shu\u01d0, visible energy), these \u98ce wind and \u6c34 water elements are considered to bring good health to your family.<\/p>\n<p>It may associate f\u0113ng \u98ce shu\u01d0 \u6c34with interior design, but for thousands of years, Chinese have used Feng Shui principles in house architecture, agriculture, urban planning, and so on. In ancient times, a ruler would even consult Feng Shui masters before deciding the location of the new capital!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is Chinese Amazing?<\/strong> Just group two basic one-character words together into a two-character word \u98ce\u6c34 (f\u0113ng shu\u01d0) an entirely different world brings to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you follow Feng Shui principles in your life? Do you know what the following Chinese loanwords refer to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chi \u6c14<\/li>\n<li>yin yang \u9634\u9633<\/li>\n<li>dao \u9053<\/li>\n<li>tai chi \u592a\u6781<\/li>\n<li>kung Fu \u529f\u592b<\/li>\n<li>typhoon \u53f0\u98ce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":21457,"template":"","expertcat":[529,540],"class_list":["post-21437","expertsays","type-expertsays","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertcat-all-about-chinese-characters-hanzi","expertcat-all-about-teaching-chinese"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertsays\/21437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertsays"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/expertsays"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"expertcat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beijingmandarin.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertcat?post=21437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}