The Five Elements
The Five Elements theory is a set of symbols and information systems for exploring the laws of nature and gaining insight into the changes in all things. It is also the basic theoretical system of Chinese culture, such as ancient astronomy, meteorology, and chemistry. , arithmetic, music and medicine were all developed with the help of the theory of Yin Yang and Five Elements. And in modern society with highly developed science and technology, it has attracted increasing attention from Chinese and foreign scholars.
Ancient Chinese thinkers believed that the world is material. The material world is driven by the two qi of yin and yang to form the five most basic elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, which then constitute the entire material. world. These five substances breed and restrict each other, and are in constant motion and change. The core of Chinese culture is the word "neutral". Only when the five elements are balanced and coordinated can all things be harmonious, orderly and prosperous. Therefore, the principle of naming the five elements is to balance the five elements.
According to this principle, the ancient Chinese Yi-Xue masters divided the basic strokes and radicals of Chinese characters into five types: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The specific classifications are as follows:
Basic strokes and radicals of wood type: 丨, B, ㄗ, 艸, 三 etc.
Basic strokes and radicals of fire type: 丿, ㄨ, 忄, heart, fire, etc.
The basic strokes and radicals of the earth type: 一, ㄅ, 阝, 扌, unitary, etc.
The basic strokes and radicals of the gold type: ノ, 口, ji, dao, ge, etc.
Basic strokes and radicals of the water type: 亠, 冫, 氵, 辶, 月, etc.
The five elements generate each other: wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, metal generates water, and water generates wood.
The five elements are in conflict with each other: wood conquers earth, earth restrains water, water restrains fire, fire restrains metal, and metal restrains wood.
Naming the baby according to the five elements means taking the balance of the eight characters as the center, calculating the most suitable five elements according to the child's birth date, and using characters corresponding to the five elements in the name.
Five-frame
The five-frame profile method is currently a more influential naming method. In early 1918 AD, Japanese scholar Takeo Kumazaki conducted a relatively systematic arrangement of name science based on the mathematical theory of the Chinese Book of Changes and founded it.
It mainly uses the principle of yin and yang and the five elements to complement and restrain each other, calculate the strokes of a person's name according to the traditional Chinese characters in the "Kangxi Dictionary", and add and subtract according to certain rules to derive the five-frame mathematical relationship. Among them, Tiange is left by ancestors, and its mathematics has little influence on people. The ground pattern represents one's forward luck (with age 38 as the limit); the personality is one's main destiny and is the center point of the entire name; the outer pattern represents the spiritual power of fate; the general pattern represents one's future fortune, which governs middle age to old age. fate. Among them, heaven, earth, and personality are collectively called the "three talents." Then compare it with the "Five-frame Mathematical Table" to observe the meaning of the name and decide whether to choose this word.
In the field of naming studies, some naming schools believe that the five-character naming method has no scientific basis, and use the method of one-sided exaggeration to disprove it. We believe that any naming method has limitations, and the five-frame profile method is no exception. It mainly simply analyzes the general influence trend of names on destiny, which is relatively rough and cannot achieve a one-to-one correspondence with reality. For example, there are many people with the same name but different destinies. These are the most intuitive proofs of the limitations of the single name doctrine. Therefore, when choosing a name, it is definitely too one-sided to only look at the five elements. You should also consider the eight characters, five elements, and five elements at the same time.
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