Name: 風水が香港のスカイラインをどのように形成したか (How feng shui shaped Hong Kong's skyline)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:49:10.000Z
Duration: 5 min 17 s
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Check out that building with a hole in it.

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Here in Hong Kong there are dragons floating everywhere. You can't really see

様態の副詞

them, because you know they're dragons. They actually live up in the mountains

and they come down into the water and when you block them from entering the

water you end up really messing up your luck.

situation by putting holes in the buildings so that the dragons can fly

These are called dragon gates and they are one of many examples of how

Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese practice, is affecting the skyline of Hong Kong.

So Feng Shui is this ancient Chinese belief, superstition. The basic idea is

that there is good energy out there floating around, good luck, good fortune

called Qi and if you arrange your physical environment in an optimal way,

you can channel that good luck in the best way and things will go good for you.

This usually takes the form of like furniture, interior design but here in

Alright, first let's look at this HSBC building.

founded back in the days of pirates and opium barons.

that it's nicely squared off, with the mountains in the back and harbor in the

Not only is the lobby elevated but it's also the escalators

are at this angle. It's kind of a weird looking angle. That's intentional as well,

because it's actually meant to fend off the bad luck as it's coming through this

And then of course the opposite is true; if

you don't arrange your physical environment in an optimal way, then bad

Right next door is the Communist Bank of Red China.

The developers of this building explicitly ignored the Feng Shui masters who were

concerned that the sharp angles of this design would cut the good Qi and create

bad luck for all of the surrounding buildings.

had their suspicions reinforced when shortly after the building was complete,

has been riddled with financial insecurity, corporate collapse, bankruptcies,

since it's very beginning. And Feng Shui masters have come out and cited the bad

Feng Shui of the area as a major cause for these events.

at the time, whose house sits in the shadow of this building, died of a fatal

heart attack just one year after this building was complete.

building, in response, put up these maintenance cranes that actually look

like cannons and they're pointed right at the Bank of China, in order to combat

all of this bad luck that's coming from this sharp building.

When developers are designing and putting up these buildings, they hire

these Feng Shui consultants. They spend millions of dollars on consultants who

will give them advice and approve their design decisions, to make sure that

Feng Shui masters said that the entrance was in a bad position for keeping good

degrees in order to create a blockade from the good luck escaping the park and

China, but during the Cultural Revolution China kind of stamped out some of these

old practices that they believed were holding the society back. And Feng Shui

fell victim to that, but Hong Kong at that time was ruled by the British. It

was a British colony, so it didn't fall subject to that Cultural Revolution and

Feng Shui was preserved in a very mainstream way.

When this thing went up, people freaked out because it

kind of looked like a candle or like a smoking cigarette. They put a swimming

pool on the top, in order to extinguish the fire and make sure that it didn't

seriously too. Between 2011 and 2016 they paid out $1.1 million dollars in

This is paid out to people who complain that new

constructions disrupt their Fung Shui and they get compensated by the

government. So next time you are crossing this harbor to look at these beautiful

buildings, just remember that Feng Shui is at is at play in Hong Kong's skyline.

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