Zhai Jing宅經
An early surviving book on reading houses, using twenty-four directions.
- Era
- Date unknown
- Volumes
- 2
- Author
- Credited to the Yellow Emperor, falsely
What it is
The Siku catalogue says books on houses are older than books on graves. This one was credited to the Yellow Emperor by later practitioners, and it cites twenty-nine earlier house books.
On this site
It shows how early the twenty-four directions and the yin and yang split were in use.
Sources Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao.
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