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These pagodas are all built in the shape of a Chinese pencil and almost always have an odd number of storeys, which is reckoned more lucky.
To dig a little on the wrong side is to transgress the geomantic influences, fan fêng shui. This is reckoned very serious, and must be counteracted, sometimes by buildings being pulled down or pieces added, doors and windows being closed up and fresh ones being opened.
A building erected hundreds of li distant may spoil the geomantic influences of a district or town.
