In spring (after beginning of spring), wood is the most prosperous, because in spring, the soil is the most declining, because the soil is mainly wood in season.
Summer (after the long summer) is the most prosperous, because gold is the most declining in the summer fire season, because gold is submerged by the prosperous fire of the season.
Autumn (after beginning of autumn) is the most prosperous gold, because in autumn, wood is the worst, because wood is the most prosperous gold in the current season.
Water is the most prosperous in winter (after beginning of winter), because the water in winter is in season, and the fire is the most prosperous, because the fire is submerged by the prosperous water in season.
The five elements of the earth are ugly in the morning, that is, the last month of the four seasons, and the water is the most prosperous in the earth season, because it is caused by the earth season.
The change of four seasons, due to the different length of dry and wet days and nights in cold and summer, so the five elements also change with the change of nature. Prosperous people decline from prosperity, and declining people prosper from decline, and the cycle is endless. Because of the mutual restraint of the five elements, in the same period, the rise and fall of the five elements are completely different, only one line is the most prosperous and the other is the most declining.
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The five elements are five dynamic and balanced movements, not a specific element. If this idea is wrong, it is all mistakes among mistakes.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Taoism put forward the idea that the theory of five elements attributes is superior to each other. The order of wood, fire, earth, gold and water is cyclic, and the order of winning (winning) life is fixed, forming a contradictory and unified model between things, reflecting the internal structural relationship of things and the idea of overall grasp.
Because during this period, Neijing applied the theory of five elements to medicine, which played an important role in studying and sorting out a large number of clinical experiences accumulated by the ancients and forming a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.
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