The meaning of fengshui was another cultural ecological environment in the pre-modern society in Korea. Village residents made interrelations with village natural environment by the medium of the geomantic landscape. The functions of cultural ecology ...
The meaning of fengshui was another cultural ecological environment in the pre-modern society in Korea. Village residents made interrelations with village natural environment by the medium of the geomantic landscape. The functions of cultural ecology through the village fengshui are as follows; the spatial location, the population inflow, the regulation of the community`s production or construction or land-use, the adjustment of the environmental carrying capacity, the environmental management, the forming of the collective environmental perception and attitude. Village fengshui is a cultural adaptation strategy to the local environment for the village residents. Fengshui can be evaluated as a traditional cultural ecological way and knowledge system for keeping sustainable village environment in East Asia.