Identifying the movement of the Dragon is a traditional skill and this plays an important part of Form School evaluation. This focuses on locating the Dragon and then determining the Dragon's Den and the Dragon's Veins, in order to locate the most beneficial site. The landscape represents the Dragon, the Mountain is the Dragon's body, the Water is the Dragon's veins and the Valleys and Plains represent the Dragon's Den. Although Form School was developed in an area of China renowned for it's dramatic landcape, it soon began to be applied all over China, including towns and cities. Buildings were considered to be Mountains and Hills, while roads were seen as Water. .
Water is associated with wealth and emotions.
Identifying the water aspect then, is a crucial factor when evaluating the wealth prospects of a building or site. Water has always been used as a means to transport goods from one place to another and it also served as an effective means of establishing communications. We can adapt rural, Form School principles, for use in Urban areas by treating roads as rivers, canals and streams, since they carry out a similar function. Roads are how we enter and also how we leave, so we need to determine if the roads are bringing energy or wealth into the building, or site or whether they are taking energy and wealth away. Water has two basic characteristics, one is to hold or embrace, the other is to flush away and by identifying the flow and the shape of water, we can see if this is beneficial to the site or not, as the case may be.