A long ridge with many short spurs off both sides, in turn, like legs.
- Traditional seat:
- the head, or between two spurs on its side
- Traditionally said:
- a large family, wide roots (a traditional saying, for reference only)
- Used for
- graves, 生基 (life-root) sites, factories
- Suits (traditionally)
- large families, businesses with many branches
- Less suited (traditionally)
- long and many-legged, traditionally yin — mostly for graves, not suggested as a home.
- How this site reads it
- read for homes and graves
- Example
- No landmark in the famous sites reads as this form yet.
How to use them
In Explore Land Veins, pick “Centipede” in “Looks like a named form” to find the places in an area most like it.
Open Explore Land Veins
A named form (喝形) here is a likeness read off the shape of the ground — for reference only, never a verdict. Forms read from the look of hills (Rhinoceros, General…) go no higher than medium; forms that depend on the detail of a hill or on imagination are not read here and need a master on site.