Scenario Judge (场景判读)

Describe the room, get a verdict

Overview

Scenario Judge is askTIAN’s situational feng-shui adjudicator. Instead of a compass calculation, you describe a real configuration — a front door facing a staircase, a bed under a beam, a stove back-to-back with a sink — and the engine evaluates it against the rule-base of the Form School (Xing Shi 形勢). It checks for sha qi (煞氣, hostile energy), poison arrows, and the classical placement laws governing the three most consequential objects in any dwelling: the door, the stove and the bed. The output is a plain verdict for each issue found, the reasoning behind it, and concrete remedies — a fast triage of any layout problem.

Origin & history

Its rules descend from the Form School (Xingshi Pai 形勢派) of feng-shui, the landscape-reading tradition attributed to Yang Yunsong and the Jiangxi masters of the Tang dynasty, which judged sites by visible shape and flow rather than compass degrees. The door-stove-bed triad and the doctrine of sha qi are codified in the Yang Zhai (陽宅, dwelling) classics, notably the Yang Zhai San Yao, which names the door, stove and master bed as the three governing factors of a home.

Form School began as the art of reading mountains, rivers and the contours around a grave or house, later turning indoors to assess furniture and architecture. Masters diagnosed by eye, naming sha such as ‘piercing heart’ corridors and ‘beam pressing the head’. askTIAN’s API translates that qualitative, case-by-case judgement into a structured rule engine: it parses a described scenario, matches it against catalogued sha and placement laws, and issues the same verdict a consultant would on a site visit — at scale.

How it works

You submit a scenario as structured fields or text — object positions, door and window alignments, the relationship between bed, stove and entrance. The engine identifies applicable Form-School rules, detects sha qi and placement violations, weighs their severity, and pairs each finding with a classical remedy (screens, repositioning, the five-element cures). Crucially it judges only what you describe, not a full compass chart. The askTIAN API returns a list of detected issues with severity, explanation and remedy per item, plus an overall 0–100 score.

Good for

• Quick checks of a single room or doorway
• Diagnosing bed, stove and front-door placement
• Spotting sha qi and poison arrows from a layout
• Vetting a floor plan before signing a lease
• Sanity-checking furniture moves without a compass
• Getting actionable remedies for a specific complaint

Use cases

Door-faces-staircase worry

Describe an entrance opening onto descending stairs and receive the sha classification plus the standard remedy options.

Bedroom under a beam

Flag a bed sitting beneath an exposed beam and get the ‘beam pressing’ verdict with repositioning or canopy fixes.

Kitchen audit

Test a stove placed opposite or beside the sink to check the fire-water clash and how serious it really is.

Pre-lease floor-plan review

Paste a unit’s layout to surface every placement problem before you commit.

Key terms

Sha Qi 煞氣

Hostile or cutting energy created by sharp, fast or oppressive forms — the core hazard the Judge detects.

Form School 形勢

The branch of feng-shui that reads visible shape and flow of land and architecture rather than compass directions.

Poison Arrow

A straight line of force — a corridor, road or edge — aimed at a door or seat, concentrating sha qi.

Three Essentials 三要

The door, stove and master bed: the three placements classical Yang Zhai theory treats as most consequential.

API

The askTIAN Scenario Judge API returns each detected sha and placement violation with severity, plain-language reasoning and a classical remedy, plus an overall 0–100 score.

Endpoint: POST /trpc/fengshui.scenarioJudge — 10 TIAN Points. See the API documentation and Playground.