Historical evidence points out that feng-shui has been around at least 4,000 years, and most experts would put it more at something like 6,000 years old, so it has a long history. In fact, feng-shui precedes any of the formal religions in China or the West.

A Neolithic gravesite discovered in the Henan province of China in the year 1988 dates from approximately 4000 B.C. Even at this early date, the two classic directional symbols, the dragon (east) and the tiger (west) were already present, indicating not only directional orientation on the earth, but synchronization with the heavens, as these two symbols were initially used as stellar constellations in the sky connected to the North Star and the Big Dipper.