How to read the five elements of a name
Names not only pay attention to the auspiciousness and restraint of the pattern and mathematics, but also pay attention to the auspiciousness and restraint of the Chinese characters. Speaking from Chinese characters alone, Chinese characters also have five elements. The reason why some names look good, sound good, and are easy to use is because the Chinese characters have good meanings, beautiful shapes, and they are well matched and complement each other. A truly good name must look beautiful, sound fresh and pleasant, and be easy to write. Not only does the math in the name talk about the five elements, but the Chinese characters in the name also have the attributes of the five elements, and they also pay attention to the five elements. When the ancients were naming, they paid great attention to the mutual restraint of Chinese characters. In a name, it was taboo to have the five elements restrain each other, such as metal restraining wood, wood restraining earth, earth restraining water, water restraining fire, fire restraining metal, etc. Instead, they advocated the mutual restraint of the five elements, such as gold restraining water, Water produces wood, wood produces fire, fire produces earth, earth produces metal, etc. Nowadays, when people give names, they often only pay attention to the auspiciousness of the pattern and mathematics, but ignore the birth and restraint of Chinese characters. It is biased to only focus on the surname and gram of Chinese characters, and ignore the surname and gram of mathematics. Similarly, it is also biased to only focus on the surname and gram of numerology, while ignoring the surname and restraint of Chinese characters. It's like going from one extreme to another. So how to distinguish and define the five elements attributes of Chinese characters in names? Some people often use numbers to distinguish them. By counting the number of strokes of a Chinese character, they can determine the five-element attributes of the character. For example: if the number is 1 or 2, it is considered to be wood; if it is 3 or 4, it is considered to be fire; if it is 5 or 6, it is considered to be earth; if it is 7 or 8, it is considered to be metal; if If it is 9 or 0, it is considered to be water. In fact, this distinction is incorrect. Take the five words metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as an example. For example, the word "水" is originally indisputably water, but because it has 4 strokes, it is considered to belong to "fire"; the word "wood" is originally indisputably wood, but because it has 4 strokes, it is also considered to belong to "fire". It belongs to "fire"; the character "earth" is indisputably earth, but because it has 3 strokes, it is also considered to belong to "fire"; only the character "gold" has 8 strokes, and the character "fire" has 4 strokes, respectively. In line with its original attributes of gold and fire, the other three have all been transformed. So it can be seen that this method of using the number of strokes of a single Chinese character to distinguish its five-element attributes is mostly wrong. There is also a method of distinguishing by radicals. This method is more scientific in principle, because Chinese characters are originally hieroglyphics. Those with fire belong to fire, those with water belong to water, those with wood belong to wood, and those with earth Those with gold belong to earth, and those with gold belong to gold. However, there are also some shortcomings, that is, Chinese characters with radicals are easy to distinguish, while those without radicals are difficult to distinguish their five-element attributes.