Jade-belt water (玉带环腰) in the classical texts
What the classics say
Verbatim passages retrieved from public-domain editions of the source texts. They are shown in the original Chinese; the gloss above is ours.
（7）庚山长壬亥朝来皆大旺但得一湾併五曲，一湾抱处得荣昌，龙安静虎伏藏，阁中出女淑贤良最怕死兔并死虎，莫进逆转退田庄岁岁防瘟癀；夫以支为龙虎者，来止迹乎冈阜，要如肘臂，谓之环抱。门前若有玉带水，高官必定容易起，岀人代代读书声荣显富贵耀门闾。千言万语，总要山动水静，砂交水会，龙真穴确，四山环抱，堂局端正，藏风聚气。看背靣水割石岩龙背转若是靣时寛且平若是背时多陡岩靣时平坦中立穴局内必定朝水缓萦纡环抱入懐来不似背变风荡散君如识得背靣时枝干寻龙无可疑寛平大曲处寻穴此为大地断无疑详看朝迎在何处中有横过水城聚背后纒水与山回相合前朝水相随后纒抱来结水口前头生脚来相凑两山两水作一关更看罗星识先后罗星亦自Sources: 殆知阁 (Daizhige) corpus, Chinese Wikisource and transcribed editions; see the manifest for each book's provenance. Classical readings are cultural references, not predictions. Methods and review