鼎在风水中的作用，鼎有可起“藏风聚气”、“辟凶煞”的作用。大的鼎往往笨重，需要多人才能够抬起，在古代人们喜用它来祭祀。那时候祭祀被视为是大事，而鼎的出现证明了当时的地位。被视为吉祥之物。所以易经上有记载。六十四卦，卦爻为，巽，上离下木，木上有火，五行属木。卦辞曰：“鼎，元吉，亨”意思是只要是所占问到鼎卦的，便是很吉力、吉祥、大顺之意。

Ding role in Feng Shui, tripod can play the "Tibetan wind gas", "monarch demon" role. The big tripod is often heavy, and needs a lot of talent to raise, in ancient times people like to use it to sacrifice. At that time, the sacrifices were regarded as great events, and the appearance of the tripod proved the status of the time. It is regarded as an auspicious thing. So the book of changes is recorded. Sixty-four Gua, Gua Yao, Sunda, from wood, wood fire, the five line belongs to the wood. Read said: "Ding, Yuanji, Henry" means that as long as it is for asked Ding Gua, is very auspicious, Kyrgyzstan, Dashun.

从最初的烹煮食物再到后来成为祭祀的礼器。用来装盛进贡给上天贡品的器物，最后变成为庙宇正门用来调节磁场的神器。所以“鼎”字也被赋予“显赫”、“ 尊贵”、“盛大”等引申意义，如：一言九鼎、大名鼎鼎、鼎盛时期、鼎力相助。

From the initial to cook food became a sacrificial ritual. A artifact used to carry the tribute to the heavens, and finally to a device used to regulate the magnetic field by the temple gate. So the "Ding" words have also been given "glorious", "noble", "grand" extended meaning, such as: good, famous, heyday, dinglixiangzhu.