Column, column, surface, willow, arch, shelf, grass, cypress, giving, tree, looking, language, taste, reason, hanging, phase, knot, feeling, crowding, guest, leather, drought, ant, rainbow, parent, standard, light, bacteria, medicine, urgency, tea, arrogance.
The five elements first appeared in the space of Hong Fan in Shangshu: "The mud overflowed and the five elements gurgled in Chen Qi; The emperor was furious, but he didn't kill Hong Fan's nine domains ... Gun died, Yunis flourished, and the sky was the nine domains of Xi Yu Hongfan, and it was a reunion. Five elements: water, fire, wood, gold and earth. Moisturizing, fire inflammation, straight wood, golden leather, soil tillage. Moisturizing is salty, inflammation is bitter, straight is sour, leather is spicy, and farming is sweet. "
Five elements are used to describe five states of yin and yang changes. On the whole, wood fire is yang, gold water is yin, and soil contains yin and hides yang.
To sum up, that's it.
Soil: fusion, biochemistry and bearing;
Wood: growing, winding and gathering;
Fire: divergent, bursting and warm;
Gold: astringent, cold and sticky;
Water: moistening, descending and flowing.