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Dragon vein

concept in feng shui

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ11679340 ↗
Source-derived summary

The dragon vein (simplified Chinese: 龍脈; traditional Chinese: 龙脉) is a metaphor for illustrating the winding terrain and the geographic formulations that promote the accumulation of qi.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dragon vein” as concept in feng shui. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 27-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dragon, vein and concept can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as concept in feng shui. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11679340. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dragon vein” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.