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Is Fengshui Chinese or Korean?

8 Votes
  • Start Date:
    12-28-2007
  • Last Vote:
    2-23-2008

Issue:

For years, the art of fengshui has been seen as a part of Chinese traditional culture. But now, this long standing heritage is being challenged since South Korea applied to list the art as a World Cultural Heritage under its name.

The Chinese government still sees the art as a superstitious method to judge good or bad luck.  The art of fengshui failed to be mentioned in their shortlist of 35 cultural arts that China has drawn up in preparation for next years World Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination procedure.

South Korea, who succeeded in adding the Dragon Boat Festival (a celebration used to commemorate a Chinese patriot) onto the list in 2005, have applied to add fengshui, which originated in China long ago and only later spread to Korea during the Ming Dynasty. 

Belief:

Is Korea again robbing China of its heritage?  Or is China showing they do not want to be linked to fengshui?
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Chinese
13%
Korean
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Forum Discussion for Is Fengshui Chinese or Korean?
Submitted by YY L. on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 04:14

OMG..some krns wana rob the Chinese & Japanese culture so badly..

Submitted by Ryorin M. on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 17:44

I'm sure it's from China..

Submitted by Yhanne C. on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 17:15

on my own opinion feng shui comes from Chinese because i've been an english teacher for Koreans and they told me that most of their culture comes from Chinese and also their race are from China that's why they themselves can't recognize who's who... so it's from CHINA

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