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Feng Shui's earliest surviving compass instruments date to the Han dynasty, over 2,000 years agoThere is no single 'Feng Shui' — Form School, Compass/Flying Star, and Black Hat (BTB) disagree on methodThe Bagua map is read differently depending on which school is applying itWu Xing, the Five Elements, is a generative-and-destructive cycle, not a list of favourite coloursFeng Shui entered Western décor mainly through Black Hat teaching in the 1970s–80s, a modern branchFeng Shui's earliest surviving compass instruments date to the Han dynasty, over 2,000 years agoThere is no single 'Feng Shui' — Form School, Compass/Flying Star, and Black Hat (BTB) disagree on methodThe Bagua map is read differently depending on which school is applying itWu Xing, the Five Elements, is a generative-and-destructive cycle, not a list of favourite coloursFeng Shui entered Western décor mainly through Black Hat teaching in the 1970s–80s, a modern branch

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