"It's always been the scholars and not the ordinary people who have been interested in the supernatural," Han Pao-te, who has made a thorough study of the subject, explains. He points out that in ancient times geomancy was really an embryonic form of astronomy and geology.
「歷來對超自然真正有興趣的，本來就是念書人而不是鄉下人」，漢寶德曾對風水作了深入的研究，他表示，中國這項發生在漢代之前的堪輿之學，就是古代知識分子自天象、地理觀察入手的前科學。