Everything exists for a reason. There are five elements in Chinese characters, which are mainly used for renaming. Usually, after analyzing the eight characters, we need to use Chinese characters to make up for the naming. As for whether it is meaningful, when and who did it, these meanings are not great, because many nominees use it this way when they change their names, so it is meaningful to exist and let nature take its course.
However, because there are many schools of eight characters, that is, the level of the same school is different, and the attribution of the five elements of Chinese characters is also very different, which makes the theory of eight characters and five elements not unified. Even professionals can hardly tell who is right or wrong and which is more reasonable, let alone non-professionals who don't know how to study easily. In this article, I will explain how to define the five elements of a Chinese character in vernacular. Whether you are a professional or not, I believe you can get inspiration from it until you understand it.
First, the most popular way to define the five elements of Chinese characters
Three talents and five elements in Chinese character strokes: three talents: genius, gifted scholar and local talent, which are the single digits of Tian Ge, personality and geographical figures respectively. Heaven and earth count as ten, and if the single digit is 0, it is calculated as 10, and the five elements are obtained by mathematics. The relationship between the five elements is: wood, fire, earth, gold and water, which are adjacent to each other and separated from each other. In this way, according to the internal relationship between mathematics and five elements, the calculated configuration relationship is the configuration of three talents.
1, 2 is wood, 3, 4 is fire, 5, 6 is earth, 7, 8 is gold, 9, 10 is water.
Disadvantages: the five elements of Chinese characters are just numbers blindly, ignoring the meaning of Chinese characters themselves. According to this theory, if the wood is painted as 4, the soil as 3, and the five elements of wood fire, the deer is a horse. This method is mostly adopted by renaming software, resulting in many irrationalities.
Second, the radicals of Chinese characters are the radical five elements.
In Chinese characters, words with grass heads beside the wood belong to wood; Words with gold and jade beside them belong to gold, words with fire and sun belong to fire, and words with earth and mountains belong to earth. This method mainly defines the five elements of Chinese characters through radicals.
Disadvantages: According to this statement, what are the five elements without these radicals? Isn't there five elements? For example, the long square and mysterious ears seen by mother are too limited and only suitable for some people with strong partiality.
Third, the five elements of phonology
On the five elements of phonology from the pronunciation of Chinese characters.
Disadvantages: Few people use it.
Through the above introduction, I believe readers have a preliminary understanding of the five elements of Chinese characters. How to define the five elements of a Chinese character more reasonably? First of all, we must understand the root cause of things. From the most fundamental point of view, most Chinese characters, especially commonly used names, are composed of two or more radical radicals, which shows that a multi-radical Chinese character cannot be determined by one five elements. How to determine the five elements of a word? The key is to define the five elements according to the word meaning, because the sound, shape and meaning of Chinese characters come first and the five elements come last. At present, no one has defined the five elements by the sound shape of Chinese characters, because the criterion is difficult to grasp, so the best way is to define the main five elements and the secondary five elements of a Chinese character according to the meaning of the word. Like the word "Li", some software measures five elements of gold, some software measures wood, and some software measures water. There is a common fault in the five elements of Chinese characters measured by software, that is, no matter what word is just a five elements, then we analyze the five elements of the word "Li" with the meaning of Chinese characters, and the word "Li" is a big surname. Of course, no one uses surnames to define the five elements, only the meaning of the word "Li". The word "Li" is "wood", which itself means "plum tree" or wood.
Let me give you another example: the word "Dan", which is a character with strong radicals and five elements, one is divided into three parts, and the other is divided into two parts. If Chinese characters are defined by radicals and five elements, the word "Dan" is next to the word "water" and the five elements are water, then this method is reasonable. Let's define the five elements of the word "light" by its meaning. Although the word "light" is a word of fire and water, and the word itself is that fire is greater than water, the meaning of the word is mainly water, because the function of the word "light" is usually called fresh water, not light fire, and its main function is to describe water, dilute it, from strong to weak, which is light. This shows that ". So the five elements of the word "light" are fire, and finally the five elements of the word "light" are fire and water. Everyone thinks that fire and water are incompatible, but it is also a word. There are many words that are incompatible with the five elements. This shows that it is unreasonable to use the five elements of Chinese characters to remedy the eight-character five elements. Unless you have a good understanding of the eight-character five elements and Chinese characters, it is easy to produce contradictions.
There are strong and weak points in the meaning of the five elements.
For example, the main five elements of the words Jiang, He, Hu, Hai and Yang are all water, and there are strong and weak points because of water. We should make it clear that we should not blindly replenish water as soon as we hear of water shortage, but also depend on the size of water, whether your life is suitable and so on. Let me write the five lines of this word here first, mainly to give you a guide. If you don't know the five elements in the name, you can communicate with me directly if you are interested. Let's analyze the primary and secondary strengths of the five elements in your name, so as to better understand your name and master your destiny.