# Direct wind (直冲风)

> Direct wind is a strong current of air that blows straight at the main door or rushes right through a house. Feng shui holds that energy scatters in strong wind, so a direct wind makes it hard for a home to hold energy; gentle, meandering air is better.

- Vietnamese: Gió thẳng
- English: Direct wind
- Chinese: 直冲风
- Chinese characters: 直冲风
- Also called: Gió thẳng · Rushing wind

## Explanation

It often affects houses facing a long alley, the gap between two towers, or homes whose front and back doors line up. Architecturally, strong draughts also bring dust, noise and heat loss.

The usual remedy is to turn the wind before it enters — a screen, a row of plants, a half wall, offset doors — not to seal the house.

## How Home Check uses it

Home Check reads the real wind at the site — current and annual — and shows how the airflow reaches the main door. — [Compass & site reading](https://myhomecheck.ai/compass)

## Related terms

- [Hide the wind, gather the qi](https://myhomecheck.ai/learn/glossary/hide-wind-gather-qi): "Hide the wind, gather the qi" — shelter from wind and energy is kept — is the root principle of feng shui.
- [Main door as qi intake](https://myhomecheck.ai/learn/glossary/main-door-qi-intake): The main door as qi intake is the idea that the main door is the mouth of the home (the qi mouth), where outside energy comes in.
- [Street water](https://myhomecheck.ai/learn/glossary/street-water): Street water is the practice in urban water methods of treating streets and lanes as waterways, because flows of people and vehicles carry energy the way water does.

## Questions

### Is a front door in line with a back door a direct wind?

It is usually read that way, since air and energy pass straight through. A partition or cabinet placed between the two slows it down.

### Is a home with no breeze better?

No. Homes need ventilation; what feng shui avoids is strong wind running straight through, not air itself.

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Original page: https://myhomecheck.ai/learn/glossary/direct-wind  
Other languages: [Tiếng Việt](https://myhomecheck.ai/vi/tri-thuc/thuat-ngu/gio-thang/index.md) · [中文](https://myhomecheck.ai/zh/learn/glossary/direct-wind/index.md)  
Updated: 2026-10-21