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Hanging feng shui paintings has long been a traditional pastime during the Lunar New Year in our culture. According to feng shui principles, hanging these paintings in the home can bring about abundant fortune, luck, and dispel negative energy for the homeowner. However, not everyone fully understands their significance and characteristics. Therefore, if hung improperly, it may not only fail to bring luck but also invite unnecessary troubles for the homeowner.
Here are some essential tips to ensure good feng shui for your living room during the 2018 Year of the Dog.
1. Landscape Paintings
Although there are numerous feng shui paintings with various themes and meanings, landscape paintings remain a popular choice among many.
When it comes to landscape paintings, two indispensable elements are water and mountains. Water symbolizes wealth and prosperity, while mountains represent stability and support. Strong, abundant water flow signifies prosperity and wealth flowing into the household. Conversely, weak water flow or water flowing outward indicates loss of wealth.
Especially, it helps you ward off 'flirting stars' for individuals. That means if you inadvertently place taboo objects in your 'Flirting Star' direction or your spouse's (directions that increase the likelihood of infidelity, causing family happiness to break down), then hanging the rooster painting will help you neutralize that position, making the feng shui of your home better.
Note when hanging paintings: hang them in the living room, with the rooster's beak facing out the window or main door, because our folklore believes that a rooster's beak facing outwards will bring luck, wealth, and ward off evil spirits.
Furthermore, you need to place the painting with the rooster's head facing outward because if you place the rooster's head facing into the house, then the family often argues, raises their voices at each other. Also, avoid hanging the rooster painting above the sofa or chair at the study table to avoid unfavorable things, unlucky occurrences at home.
4. Plant Paintings
When hanging plant paintings to bring luck to the house and harmonize feng shui, you should avoid hanging these paintings to the West. Because plant paintings belong to the Wood element, and the West direction belongs to the Metal element, according to the Five Elements theory, we know that Wood and Metal are very antagonistic to each other, so with this type of painting, hanging it to the West will make the homeowners encounter many unfortunate things, and the family may experience discord at the beginning of the year.
A painting of lotus flowers in the living room not only helps soothe the soul but also has the effect of regulating the flow of prosperity, enhancing energy sources for health, helping homeowners be calm, and enjoy happiness.
You can choose plant paintings like Prosperous Blossoming Flowers, Nine Fish Gathering, lotus flowers... to hang in your home, especially in the living room, not only can help you decorate the room, bring a warm feeling but also can bring luck, fortune to your family.
5. Buddha Statue Paintings
To bring more luck and fortune to your family, when hanging Buddha statue paintings, it's best to hang them in a position opposite to the entrance, avoid hanging them in positions such as parallel to the ancestral altar, facing the bathroom, dining table, and other room doors.
6. Successful Horse Painting
If you want your career to progress, to develop further, then the Successful Horse painting is the perfect choice for you.
This painting is suitable for people born in the autumn-winter seasons because the Successful Horse painting with its fiery nature will greatly assist the homeowner.
You shouldn't hang this painting in the South because it will violate the 'Fire burning heaven's gate', causing poor health for family members, headaches, dizziness. Especially, hanging it in this direction will make children argue and be disobedient to their parents.
If you belong to the Ox or Rat zodiac signs, you should also not choose to hang this painting because Ox and Rat are not compatible with Horse.
