The theory of practice was summarized by the ancients from their daily life practice. They believe that everything in the world is composed of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and they have different manifestations in different things. For example, the five colors: green, red, yellow, white, and black; the five sounds: Jiao, Zheng, Gong, Shang, and Yu; the five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty; the five internal organs: liver, heart, spleen, lung, and kidney. Five emotions: joy, joy, desire, anger, sadness, five constants: benevolence, propriety, trust, righteousness, wisdom, etc. The five contents of each thing respectively show the order of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. . The five elements have the order of generation, mutual generation and mutual restraint. The order of generation is wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The order of mutual generation is wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water generates wood. The order of mutual restraint is: water overcomes fire, fire overcomes metal, metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, and earth overcomes water.
The combination of yin and yang and the five elements theory has become a theory used by the ancients to explain various natural and life phenomena. Divination and horoscopes are the activities of predicting the future. In ancient times, when productivity was low, it was more difficult to grasp personal destiny, and people wanted to know it even more. Astrology uses the theory of yin and yang and the five elements to explain a person's destiny. One of the main methods is to use birth date and horoscope to predict destiny. The so-called birth date refers to the year, month, day and time of birth represented by the heavenly stems and earthly branches. In the pre-Qin period, people only used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to record the date, but later, the year, month, day, and hour can be recorded using the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. There are ten heavenly branches: A, B, B, D, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui. There are twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The sequence of the two can produce sixty units, called sixty years. The year, month, day, and hour of the birth are represented by the combination of heavenly stems and earthly domination respectively. There are exactly eight characters, so they are called the birth date. The fortune teller also calls it the four pillars of human beings. There are also five elements in the birthday horoscope. Among the ten heavenly stems, A and B belong to wood, Bing and Ding belong to fire, Wu and Ji belong to earth, Geng and Xin belong to metal, and Ren and Gui belong to water. Among the twelve earthly branches, Yin and Mao belong to wood, Si and Wu belong to fire, Shen and You belong to metal, Hai and Zi belong to water, Chen, Shu, Chou and Wei belong to earth.
The five elements interact with each other: metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal.
The five elements inhibit each other: metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, and water overcomes fire. , Fire overcomes metal.
The meaning of the five elements:
Wood generates fire because the nature of wood is warm, fire is hidden in it, and it drills into the wood to generate fire, so wood generates fire.
< p>Fire generates earth because fire is hot, so it can burn wood. When wood is burned, it turns into ashes. Ash is earth, so fire generates earth.Earth generates gold, because gold needs to be hidden in stone. Here, it relies on mountains and grows moist, and gathers soil to form mountains. Mountains must produce rocks, so soil produces gold.
Gold produces water, because the Qi of Shaoyin (gold Qi) is warm and moist, and metal relies on it. Water is born, and forged gold can also turn into water, so metal is born of water. The meaning of the five elements:
Wood generates fire, because the nature of wood is warm, and fire is hidden in it. It drills into wood to create fire, so wood generates fire. < /p>
Fire generates earth, because fire is hot, so it can burn wood. When wood is burned, it turns into ashes, and ashes are earth, so fire generates earth.
Earth generates gold, because metal It needs to be hidden in the stone, attached to the mountain, and nourished by moisture. It gathers soil to form a mountain. If there is a mountain, it must produce stone, so soil produces gold.
Gold produces water, because the Qi of Shaoyin (Golden Qi) is warm and moist. Ze, gold depends on water, and forged gold can also turn into water, so gold produces water. Water produces wood, because the water is warm and moist, trees grow, so water produces wood. Water produces wood, because the water is warm and moist, trees grow, so water produces Wood.