A house shouldn't face a road? There's some sense to these old sayings

Summary: There are many rules when building a house in rural areas. The old saying that a house shouldn't face a road

actually reflects the study of house feng shui in ancient China, especially in rural areas, where building a house is a big deal, and people are very attentive to everything about the house. Just think about how every time a family builds a house, they have to pick an auspicious time and set off firecrackers and so on.

"Better a horizontal road in front of the door than a vertical road facing the house" - what's so bad about it?

Put simply, this saying is about choosing the site for a house, though both of these house locations are actually quite good positions. A horizontal road in front of the door isn't very good, but it's better than having a vertical road facing the door.

First, let's look at why a horizontal road in front of the door is bad. By today's standards this saying seems a bit untenable, because everyone knows that if there's a horizontal road passing in front of the door, and especially if it's in a city, then the house is worth a lot of money, because it could be used as a storefront in the future. But in ancient times and in some rural areas today, people don't see it that way.

Let's talk about ancient times first. In ancient times, if a horizontal road passed in front of the door, naturally many people would come and go, and sometimes carts and horses would pass by too. Such a house wasn't very livable - not only was the environment noisy, but the people coming and going were a mixed bunch, making accidents easy to happen.

And from a feng shui perspective, it wasn't very good either. Although feng shui has a certain superstitious flavor, sometimes it also has a certain practical logic. First of all, the noise from the horizontal road in front of the door would definitely be greater, so naturally it wasn't very good.

Now let's look at why a vertical road in front of the house is bad?

Actually, even people who don't understand much about feng shui can see that this house isn't very good. Because the house is built at the end of a road, especially at the end of an intersection like a T-junction, not to mention the impact of the daily traffic noise on the living environment, just from a psychological standpoint it's very uncomfortable. If you live upstairs and see vehicles coming toward you every day, it gives a very unpleasant feeling.

And especially now that there are so many cars, watching vehicles drive toward you every day is naturally very oppressive. If the front door of your house directly faces a vertical main road, there's also a chance a car could drive right into your home. This isn't just an uncomfortable living environment - it also carries a safety hazard.

I looked at explanations about feng shui studies, which say that such a house is considered to have committed "chong sha" (clashing evil), which isn't good for the residents. Of course, if you're a broad-minded person who doesn't care about these things, then none of this is a big deal.

Also, from this saying we can actually see that choosing a site for a house is a field of knowledge in itself. If a house is built by the roadside and used for business, it's naturally very good, but for living it's not very ideal. After all, a good living environment is best when it's relatively quiet, with plenty of light, bright and open to the sun. And with beautiful surroundings, where you can enjoy the scenery as soon as you open the window - such a house is naturally very livable, and the owners living there will naturally be happy in body and mind.

But feng shui and all that are just sayings passed down in our country since ancient times. You can take them as a reference; there's no need to worry or fret too much. The most important thing is that you live comfortably in your own house.

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