풍수지리사상의 생활풍수 적용 인식에 관한 고찰

Abstract

Human beings should be able to easily obtain water and food to maintain the life. That is why they chose a safe place to be protected from dangerous natural disasters and an advantageous place to defend against external invasions. Therefore, Feng Shui came into being. It has been applied to life with the recognition of it as a traditional philosophy, a living science, and a natural science that has been in harmony with the traditional thoughts for generations. The purpose of this study is to examine how Feng Shui thought is settled as a traditional philosophy in our modern life by examining whether modern folks are aware that Feng Shui thought is being applied as a living Feng Shui in everyday life. It is also to examine the degree of recognition of Feng Shui thought as a living Feng Shui and its application through the verification of the difference between subjects' socio-demographic characteristics and residential environment in living Feng Shui. That is, as a human being, a family as a primary group has a sense of unity while maintaining an intimate relationship with each other. The relationship is face-to-face, intimate, long-lasting, and the members are fused into one common whole, maintaining a strong sense of unity of 'we'. Therefore, it is essential to create a living environment in which humans can live comfortably without worrying about external invasion or various changes of nature in a minimum space for family. Feng Shui study is applied not only to the academic area but also to the social environment according to these various changes of natural environment, and it is applied to modern people from the composition of the urban residential space to the individual houses. Therefore, from a macro perspective, it is applied to comprehensive welfare areas, the necessities of life including to eat food to sustain life, to wear to keep the body warm from the outside, and to secure the residential space to live in a certain area. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, the perception of Feng Shui thought as a living Feng Shui for men and women in their 40s to 70s was 3.10 on the 5-point Likert scale, slightly higher than the average score. Second, the perception of life Feng Shui according to the socio-demographic characteristics of subjects was significantly different in terms of age, education, and religion. The perception of living Feng Shui according to the residential environment showed statistically significant difference in the number of years of residence and the direction of housing. What is regarded as the fundamental subject in oriental thought and the origin in Feng Shui idea are the heaven, the earth, and the person that means respectively the time of providence, the geography of the earth, and the harmony among men. This is based on the heaven, earth, and atmosphere to enable people to live their basic life as human beings. This is food, clothing and shelter that human beings lead on and based on which humans are living together as a family. This survey revealed that this Feng Shui thought is applied as a living Feng Shui in modern people's life and has a close relationship with our life. Therefore, the recognition and application of the living Feng Shui is necessary to those who live in modern life, and it is expected that the Feng Shui can be applied as scientific and rational practical science in the realm of life welfare.