The Five Elements is a systematic view of ancient Chinese philosophy, which is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, horoscopes, numerology, physiognomy and divination. The meaning of the five elements includes the five basic dynamics through the evolution process of yin and yang: metal (representing gathering), wood (representing growth), water (representing infiltration), fire (representing destruction), and earth (representing fusion). Ancient Chinese philosophers used the Five Elements Theory to explain the formation of all things in the world and their interrelationships. It emphasizes the whole and aims to describe the movement form and transformation relationship of things. Yin and Yang are the ancient theory of the unity of opposites, and the Five Elements are the original system theory.
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"Gan Oath" and "Hong Fan" in "Shangshu"; "Five Elements"
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Wood, fire, earth, metal, water
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The Five Elements Theory is an ancient Chinese theory of imagery and analogy. It is not the five elements, but It attributes all things to the five items of water, fire, wood, metal and earth according to their properties of moistening, burning, straightness, leather, and farming. It is different from the ancient Western four-element theory of earth, water, fire, and wind. It is a collection of philosophy, Divination, fortune telling, calendar, traditional Chinese medicine, sociology and many other theories integrated into one.
The Five Elements refers to the five elements that the ancients divided into five categories of nature: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, and called them the "Five Elements." I have seen the dialogue between Jizi and King Wu of Zhou recorded in "Shangshu·Hongfan": "The five elements: one is water, the second is fire, the third is wood, the fourth is gold, and the fifth is earth. Water is called moistening (moisturizing), and fire is called moistening. The upper part is called Yan (burning), the wood is called Quzhi (bending, relaxing), the metal is called Congge (the ingredients are dense and easy to divide), and the earth is called Jiaxiao (meaning sowing and harvesting). "From leather comes pungency, from crops comes sweetness." This not only classifies all things in the universe, but also defines the nature and characteristics of each category. Jizi's activity habitat more than 3,000 years ago was in the Five Elements Mountain. Jizi not only observed the sky but also invented Go. The Five Elements Mountain in Journey to the West refers to this Five Elements Mountain. Based on the understanding of the five elements, later generations created the theory of the mutual generation and restriction of the five elements. This theory is mainly based on the law of "the generation and restriction of the five elements".