Our ancestors have lived the life that human and nature are coexistent and auxiliary to each other to realize harmonious space in residential environment to various aspects.
One of ways to protect living environment in active and wise countermeasure ...
Our ancestors have lived the life that human and nature are coexistent and auxiliary to each other to realize harmonious space in residential environment to various aspects.
One of ways to protect living environment in active and wise countermeasure is Bibo base on Feng Shui (geomantic principles).
Bibo is the environmental compliment traditional culture to realize an ideal environment in the way to supplement geographical conditions with nature harmoniously. With this, Bibo has developed a solution to supplement geographical conditions and harmony with nature for achievement of a harmony and coexistence with nature.
Bibo-Feng Shui can be divided into forest, Josan and Bibo symbol such as (Jangseung, Tower, Sotdai), and they were installed where the lack of environmentally fragile environment to improve surrounding environment
The studies of Bibo-Feng Shui have been investigating in various areas. It is mainly targeting Bibo-forest in the Science of Landscape Architecture, but there has not seen much progress.
Bibo forest has been magnified as a cultural resource of the town and has being important factor in terms of land and local environmental management.
The development and expansion of the city, Gyeonggi-do, is frequent compare to other regions. With this, the overall condition of the Bibo-forest distributed over Gyeonggi-do is not only determined, but it is also not getting protection.
The existing studies on Feng Shui of Gyeonggi-do were done piecemeal, so the systematic study is needed. The aim of this study is to understand the concept of the 비보 base on the previous research about Bibo-Feng shui of Gyeonggi-do, and analyze and organize the case study data on a basis of old documents and local data. Those studies would be the valuable data to preserve the Bibo-forest consistently.
There are 45 forests in Gyeonggi-do, and only 15 forests have a character of Bibo-forest there is. Most of the species are zelkova and pine trees at the entrance of the towns. As the functions of the forest and situational supplementation are most common.
Many forests in Gyeonggi-do are exposed to poor environment with lack of systematic management. Therefore, the system and comprehensive management are needed for the sustainable conservation and utilization in the future.