What is really related to the five elements of Chinese characters are the first four items, which are all composed of ideographic roots, such as gold, wood, water, fire and earth, like building blocks. Therefore, Chinese characters have five elements from the beginning of word creation. Among them, the five elements of pictographic characters, indicative characters, literate characters and pictophonetic characters are easy to identify. It is more difficult to turn words and borrow words.
The methods of recognizing Chinese characters' five elements introduced on the Internet include phonological five elements method based on pronunciation, glyph five elements method based on structure, word meaning five elements method based on Chinese character meaning, and mathematical five elements method based on stroke number. However, from my long-term research and practice on the attributes of Chinese characters' five elements, the "glyph and five elements method" is the authentic method to determine Chinese characters' five elements;
Secondly, the "five-element meaning method" can accurately read the five elements for some single words and mixed words without radicals and radicals. Although the method of "phonology and five elements" is an effective method for the ancients to determine the five elements of Chinese characters, it is difficult for modern people to master the same word, that is, Mandarin and Beijing dialect, because of the vast territory and too many dialect areas in China. So we don't advocate using phonology to define the five elements, just making an understanding.
However, no matter what method, we must follow one goal, that is, the general principle and basis for identifying the five elements of Chinese characters is to divide them according to their images and attributes.
In the theory of five elements, wood is the east, benevolence and life; Fire is the south, the main ceremony, the main long; Soil as the center, the Lord believes, the Lord; Gold is the main harvest of western socialism; Water is north, the main wisdom, the main storage. Therefore, all Chinese characters with charity and hair growth are all five elements; All Chinese characters with civilized manners and luminous properties are popular.
All Chinese characters with firmness and inclusiveness have five behaviors; All Chinese characters with semantics and hard texture have five elements of gold; All Chinese characters with wisdom and fluidity are water.
These properties of Chinese characters are determined by their shapes, structures and meanings. Many Chinese characters contain the basic components of Chinese characters such as wood, fire, earth, gold and water in shape, and the five elements in meaning. Knowing this truth, we can better solve the problem of dividing Chinese characters into five elements.
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When dividing the attributes of five elements of Chinese characters according to the method of meaning and five elements, we should pay attention to the following points:
1. In principle, all words or radicals involving the Five Elements Theory should be divided into five elements according to the Five Elements Theory.
For example, the five elements are located in the southeast and northwest, the east is wood, the south is fire, the west is gold, the north is water, and the middle is earth; The nature of the five elements is benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith, benevolence is wood, righteousness is gold, courtesy is fire, wisdom is water and faith is earth; The five elements are red, white, yellow, black and green, red is fire, white is gold, yellow is earth, black is water and green is wood; Chinese characters are used for viscera and five elements, the heart is fire, the liver is wood, the spleen is earth, the lung is gold, and the kidney is water;
Eight diagrams and five elements use words, dry hand is gold, ridge is water, gen Kun is earth, shock is wood, and separation is fire; Ten days of dry words, A and B are wood, C and D are fire, Wuji is soil, Geng Xin is gold, and Ren is water; Twelve places use Chinese characters, Haizi is water, Yin Mao is wood, noon is fire, Shen You is gold, and Chen Xu is ugly.
2. When naming each polysemous word, it is divided into five elements according to the main meaning of the word used. Such as gold, if the meaning of the word is a tool for cutting things, the five elements of the word should be classified as gold, and if it is a unit of measurement, the five elements of the word should be classified as water.
3. Where the ancient meaning is quite different from the modern meaning, divide the five elements according to the modern meaning. If handsome, it means shawl in ancient times, and the five elements should be wood. Now under the guise of being a general, the five elements should be water.
4. If there is a contradiction between the glyph and the five elements of the word meaning, the five elements shall be divided according to the word meaning. For example, the radical of the word "new" comes from "gold" and also has "wood" parts. In ancient times, it meant logging, so the five elements should be gold. But now the word "new" mainly means something new, which corresponds to the old, so the five elements should be classified as weak five elements.
5. For words with double radicals and five elements, the five elements are divided by doctrine and doctrine when naming. If you smell it, the "door" on the side generally indicates a certain range, and the five elements should be "earth", while the five elements of "ear" control water. Because the sense of smell is mainly listening, it is related to the ear, the ear is connected with the kidney, and the kidney controls the water, so the five elements of smell should divide the water.
Another example is Mu, which has two parts: "residence" and "wood". Because the meaning of wood is mainly related to washing, the five elements of wood should be divided into water. The five elements method of word meaning is actually an extension of the five elements method of glyph. They are homologous and divergent, but in the end they achieve the same goal by different routes.
The five-element method of meaning is also the five-element division method that can best reflect the level of naming people. Because of the large number and complex structure of Chinese characters, the word is often polysemous. To correctly divide its five-element attribute according to its meaning, judges need to have profound knowledge of Chinese studies, especially philology.
At the same time, the five elements of Chinese characters are strong and weak. For example, the five elements of the words rivers, lakes and seas are all water, and the energy of water is very powerful. Then when we remedy the eight characters, we should also look at the size of the water, whether it is suitable for life and so on. It is necessary to analyze the primary and secondary importance and strength of the five elements in the eight characters first, so as to better choose the word energy strength and better plan the name.