This research reinterprets Fengshui under a scientific framework: The NBS (nature-based solutions) water management. Through field investigations and modling of 2 traditional settlements in up and lower part of XiangJiang River basin, Fengshui philosophy is easier to be interpreting. The comparative analysis shows: Fengshui design regards water as the core element of landscape, it shaped the structure and deeply involved in into the local ecology and community, and water related Fengshui methodology can further improvement NBS theory to provide cross-cultural and cross regional design solutions for water resource management.