How to define the five elements of Chinese characters when naming a baby or renaming a person?
The five elements of Chinese characters play a very important role in jurisprudence. First of all, we like to use the five elements according to the birth analysis. However, in the specific naming process, Chinese characters with corresponding attributes should be supplemented to achieve the balance of the five elements. The naming of the five elements is related to the traditional theory of the five elements, which has been used for naming, measuring or renaming. So, how to distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters? This is a very common and important question.
The theory of five elements first appeared in the theories of Huang Lao and Taoism, aiming at describing the movement form and transformation relationship of things. The theory of five elements is an analogy theory in ancient China. It is not the five elements, but all things belong to five elements according to the nature of moistening, inflammation, straightness, culture and cultivation. It is different from the theory of earth, water, fire and wind in ancient western countries, and it is a theory that integrates philosophy, divination, fortune telling, calendar, traditional Chinese medicine and sociology.
How to determine the five elements of Chinese characters?
The five elements of Chinese characters are formed when they are created. Because Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, with both form and spirit, derived from natural images, and highly summarized and condensed natural phenomena, Chinese characters have been given the corresponding five-element attributes since their birth. The five elements of Chinese characters are mainly embodied in three aspects: the image of Chinese characters, the form and spirit of Chinese characters and the rhythm of Chinese characters.
As we all know, some Chinese characters have the radicals of Jin Mu's fire, water and earth, so it is easier to distinguish them. However, there are still many Chinese characters without these radicals, so we must distinguish their five-element attributes from the image and spirit of Chinese characters. There are many ways to distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters, so I won't elaborate on them here. We choose the important ones here.
The author analyzes many methods to judge the five elements of Chinese characters. The most popular method on the Internet is to distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters according to their strokes. However, in the specific use process, we will find that using this method, water is often regarded as fire, wood is turned into gold, water is regarded as soil, fire is mistaken for water, and deer is called horse. This phenomenon is numerous and does not conform to the laws of nature. Therefore, this method is not desirable.
As for the method of defining the attributes of the five elements by the rhythm of Chinese characters, there are many contradictions in ancient books, and today people are unable to agree. The biggest possibility is the pronunciation difference between ancient and modern times and the dialect difference today, so there will be many difficulties in fixing the five elements of Chinese characters. We can only make conscious judgments according to the pronunciation, sharpness or bluntness of Chinese characters, combined with the characteristics of the five elements, such as pleasant water and alcohol, straight and slender wood, impatient fire, heavy soil and high and sharp gold.
In name phonology, the most complicated thing is the definition of five elements. The theory of five elements defines sound as five elements, which plays a role in tonifying diseases and medicines in naming. However, we should not be overly superstitious about the five elements of pronunciation. Compared with the meaning of words, homophonic content is the most important part of pronunciation, and its five-line meaning is second only to the image and form and meaning of words.
According to years of practical experience, I think it is more feasible to judge from the pictographic gods of words, which is more in line with the basic essence of the five elements theory. The image, shape and spirit of Chinese characters can be subdivided into radicals, meanings, expressions, colors, directions and branches. Then, according to the images of the branches of the five elements, divide their shapes, synthesize their meanings, study their images, investigate their verve and subdivide their five elements.
Editor's note:
The dryness of words, whether it is the virtue of gods or the love of all things, is nothing but the image and form of words. As for the method of defining the five elements of Chinese characters with the rhythm of Chinese characters, it can only be considered if other methods are not enough to judge the five elements of Chinese characters.
In the actual naming process, we should try to make every Chinese character used in naming contain the five elements that fate likes to use first. The information energy that people receive the most in their life is the name that everyone has, and the name can only be unique if it is combined with a specific person. The combination of Chinese characters contained in each name contains different five elements of energy. Therefore, when naming a name, it should not only be meaningful, pleasant to read and beautiful to write, but also make the magnetic field of the five elements of the word fit the numerology. In this way, the joint efforts of the name information field and the reservation field can be guided in a good direction to the maximum extent. -Xuanwei