The following five-line division method is extracted from the book Authentic Traditional Numerology Named by Mr. Zhou Yinchan.
how to divide the five elements of China Chinese characters?
Because Chinese characters in China are pictographic and ideographic, they can be classified according to their shapes and meanings. Five elements
1. Intuitive method
That is to say, what you see directly, for example, the word "three dots of water" belongs to water, the word "wood" belongs to wood, and the word "fire" belongs to fire. This is the simplest.
2. What are the attributes of the five elements determined by the direction?
For example, if the East belongs to wood, all the words related to the East belong to wood, such as Chen, Dong and Dong. South? It belongs to fire, and all the characters related to Nanzi have? With the attributes of fire, such as nan, yi and so on.
3. The attributes of the five elements determined by color
From the perspective of color and orientation, they also correspond to the five elements, and there are five colors and five positions. Think? Is water black (north), wood green (east) and fire? It is red (south), yellow (middle) and metallic white (west). In the same way, what is relevant? Radicals or words with a certain part have the same five-element attribute. Such as black water, ink? It also belongs to water, and silence also belongs to water. Green belongs to wood, and quietness, invitation, affection, purity and precision belong to wood. One more? This kind of situation, such as red belongs to fire, red synonymous with red also belongs to fire, and purple also belongs to fire. And so on.
4. Determine the attributes of the five elements by seasons
As mentioned earlier, the four positive directions correspond to four seasons, and of course they also correspond to four five? Ok. Spring belongs to wood in the east, fire in the south in summer, gold in the west in autumn and water in the north in winter. So? Spring, summer, autumn and winter have five elements of attributes. Similarly, all words with four characters of spring, summer, autumn and winter have "and"? Associated with the five elements of attributes, such as summer belongs to fire, mansion belongs to fire ... and so on.
5. Pictographs
China Chinese characters are mainly pictographs, so the five elements can be divided according to their shapes. Such as? However, the four points below the word are the flames of painting, so the word is a fire. What are the four points below the word? Everything that is lit belongs to fire. Point, light, heat and happiness are all the same. And so on.
6. Understanding
Understanding is one of the word-forming methods of Chinese characters in China. We don't talk about word-forming methods, but only about word meaning. And talk about the related method of dividing the five elements
We take the basic meaning of characters to divide the attributes of the five elements, for example, knives belong to gold, vertical knives also belong to gold, and all characters with vertical knives belong to gold. Even the Ge (ancient weapon) representing metal belongs to gold. Still? Ding, Zun, Axe are all gold, and so on.
The above division principles of direction, color, seasons and so on are all related to the river map.
7. judging the five elements of Chinese characters by heavenly stems and earthly branches
as we said, according to the taiji diagram, heavenly stems and earthly branches has the natural yin-yang and five elements. By? All words with heavenly stems and earthly branches have the same five-element attribute at the same time. For example, the word "art" has the attribute of five elements because it contains "B", which belongs to yin wood. And so on
8. Divide the five elements by eight diagrams
The Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes have directional order, so at the same time they have the attributes of five elements, such as dry? Gua, in the northwest (all the hexagrams are acquired gossip), is white and belongs to gold. All with hexagrams? Names-related words all have the same five-element attribute. For example, the original meaning of the word is to say? Thinking has no five-element attribute, but because it is the name of the divinatory symbol, it has the five-element attribute gold of the divinatory symbol So by the same token, all the words with redemption belong to gold. Pleasure, speech and tax are all gold, and so on.
what principles should be followed in dividing the five elements of Chinese characters?
1. the principle that a word belongs to more than one word, and everyone who has it counts.
In reality, when you divide the five elements of Chinese characters, you will encounter a word that belongs to several five elements at the same time. Than? For example, the word "German" can be divided into ten, four, one, heart (which has no attributes) and five elements. Especially ten for earth, four for gold, one for water, and the heart for earth. There are two dirt in a german word, one? A gold and a water, that is to say, these five elements are all counted, and the word German belongs to metal water and soil. Have a classmate? I asked, how can I use so many attributes? That's the next principle.
2. The principle that those who are afraid give up
This sentence means eight characters (children's lives) and fear one of the five elements. What is this word? You have to give up, and you can't use it anymore.
3. The principle that all single characters are separated into characters
Single characters can be separated appropriately, but they must all be separated into characters. For example: orthography, ok? Disassembled into one, stop, and one has five elements, belonging to water. There are no five elements, but there are yin and yang genera? Sex is yin. Therefore, orthography belongs to water. However, the word "in" can't be dismantled, can it be dismantled? Come out, and the rest will not work if you don't pronounce words.
4. The principle of calculating the past and the present
China is the only country in the world where culture has not been interrupted, and its writing has evolved gradually? Cheng, in the process of evolution, the characters are also changing, so most of the characters in China are one character? Multibody. A word written in multiple ways will have multiple five elements. No matter how many ways it is written, all the five elements it shows are counted.
5. The principle of taking the ancient as the standard when the five elements of ancient and modern characters conflict
When the five elements of ancient and modern characters conflict, the ancient should be taken as the standard. The five elements of the generation are calculated. For example: the word spirit, the ancient word spirit, its original meaning means that a wizard stands? Begging for rain before the incense table means that the modern word belongs to fire and the ancient word belongs to water. But begging for rain is the foundation? Righteousness, so according to ancient times, the word spirit belongs to water. Without the five elements of water. And so on.
note: there is a hidden five elements, that is to say, you can't read it without profound common sense. To, for example, ze word, the average person according to the previous principle, belongs to the water, that's right. But in the gossip, exchange is Ze, exchange is Zheng Xi, and it belongs to gold, so Ze also has a hidden five-element gold. For one thing, the word "Zhen" belongs to wood besides water. It is because the divination is due east.
There is another aspect of the hidden five elements. The word list is one or more of the five elements. There is another hidden five elements in the meaning. For example, the word right, on the surface, is divided according to the previous original? Then the ownership is wood. But the original intention of power refers to the ancient weight, so the word power also has a hidden five? Ok, gold. (If a child is short of wood in five elements, but he is afraid of gold, this right word must be given up and never used.) The split of single characters should be moderate, and the orthography can only be separated into "one" and "stop". Can't you do it all? Break up the department. Monographs can only be disassembled once, not many times and in many directions, such as: Wang Zi, only? Disassemble into one, soil. Can not be disassembled into one, soil, dry, three, ten, two repeatedly. The order of disassembly is the order of writing. And so on.