Come in alto, così in basso. La corrispondenza tra paesaggio e stelle dell’Orsa Maggiore nei primi due capitoli dello Hanlongjing

Abstract This contribution is focused on a translation of the first two chapters of
Hanlongjing撼龍經, one of the fengshui classical texts belonging to the School of Forms,
attributed to Yang Yunsong and dating back to the 10th century. The first part of this short
study tries to shed some light on some interesting features of this source: the notion of
dragon qi 氣 veins shaping on large scale the topography of China, and defining on little
scale the fengshui nature of a site; and the correspondence between mountainous reliefs
forms and the stars of Ursa Maior’s Northern Dipper (Beidou 北斗).