Feng Shui is a type of placement that is belong to ancient Chinese. Its aim is to provide peaceful, positive environment. Feng Shui means ‘wind water’ in English. It helps us to use the energy in environment. For feng shui architecture four things are important which are environment, time, building and people who are living in that building. Today feng sui is not only studied by Chinese people. It is very popular between Westerns too.
When designing a house according to feng shui system every inch of the room should have the light. There should be a big mirror on a very big plane wall but while placing the mirror people should be very careful since the placement of the mirror can effect the spread of negative energy. The room should not be messy. The television or the electronic sources should not be placed as the most important thing in the room. There should be an object or a painting that contains red in it. Also you shouldn’t face your back to the things that has water in it.
Some companies such as Coca cola, Shell and Sony are using Feng Shui decoration in their business environment. They say that it provides a better place for business. Also Donald Trump uses feng shui in his Trump Towers. He confessed that he doesn’t believe Feng sui system but it makes money.
Origami is another thing that is very popular today. First it was found in China. Chinese people developed some paper folding techniques than brought it to Japan. Origami takes a very important place in Japanese culture.
There are six types of origami. First one is action origami which consists moving objects. The second one is modular origami. Modular origami is done by putting identical pieces together and build one piece. The third one is wet-folding origami. It does not consists geometric straight folds but smooth curves. The fourth one is pureland origami. In pureland origami you cannot do several folds at a time and reverse folds are not allowed. The fifth one is origami tesellations. There is no gaps in origami tesellations. And the last one is kirigami. Kirigami is a Japanese type of paper cutting.
Today origami is spread all around the world. In Turkey there is a famous paper folding artist called Nermin Er. She uses only paper in her art work and also adds some light tricks to her art work.
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