What are the five elements of 1993?
As early as "Shang Shu Hong Fan", it was recorded: "Five elements: water, fire, wood, gold and earth. Water is moist, fire is inflamed, wood is straight (curved and loose), gold is leather (dense and well divided), and soil is fertilizer (meaning sowing and harvesting). Moisturizing is salty, inflammation is bitter, straight is sour, leather is spicy, and farming is sweet. " This paper not only classifies everything in the universe, but also defines the properties and characteristics of each category. According to the understanding of the five elements, later generations established the theory of mutual generation and mutual resistance of the five elements, mainly based on the law of "mutual generation and mutual resistance of the five elements".
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The five elements are five dynamic and balanced movements, not a specific element. If this idea is wrong, it is all mistakes among mistakes.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Taoism put forward the idea that the theory of five elements attributes is superior to each other. The order of wood, fire, earth, gold and water is cyclic, and the order of winning (winning) life is fixed, forming a contradictory and unified model between things, reflecting the internal structural relationship of things and the idea of overall grasp. Because during this period, Neijing applied the theory of five elements to medicine, which played an important role in studying and sorting out a large number of clinical experiences accumulated by the ancients and forming a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.
"Five Emperors" records: "... there are five elements in the sky, fire, water and Jin Mu soil, which are cultivated in time to form everything. Its god name is Five Emperors. "
The word "five elements" originated from Shi Gan and Hong Fan in Shangshu. In Shi Gan, it means "Hu Shi threatens the five elements, neglects the three righteousness, and kills life with heaven." "Hong Fan" pointed out that "the overflow of muddy water gurgled out Chen Qi's five elements; 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. Water is moist, fire is inflamed, wood is straight, gold is skin, and soil is valley. Moisturizing is salty, inflammation is bitter, straight is sour, leather is spicy, and farming is sweet. " It puts forward the arrangement order of five substances headed by water, as well as their properties and functions, but it doesn't touch the internal relationship between the five elements.
The formation of the theory of five elements may have many ideological backgrounds. First, during the period of the Five Emperors Yao and Shun, He began to cultivate the Five Elements. The book The Boy Asked Yi published by People's Publishing House has been verified. Secondly, numerology originated from the concept of orientation since the late Shang Dynasty. There are many records about "four directions" and "four places" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In the late Shang Dynasty, five concepts of east, west, south, north and middle were formed. The numerology of this concept of orientation was completed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. For example, Mozi returned to righteousness, with time sequence and orientation. For example, The Book of Rites Qulishang "Line, before Zhu bird (sparrow) and then Xuanwu, left Qinglong and right white tiger, swinging in the sky", and the historical records Tianguanshu recorded the observation of the four seasons. Third, it originated from the "five-material theory" that has gradually emerged since the late Western Zhou Dynasty. The five elements originally originated from five materials, and five materials originated from six houses. In ancient times, there were six governments in charge of affairs: wood, fire, earth, gold, water and valley. After Zhou Youwang, Gufu was abolished and gradually formed "Five Materials". This is recorded in Guoyu Luyu and Zuozhuan Zhao Gong Thirty-two Years. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the five elements were basically determined, with the sun, moon and stars in the sky and the five elements on the ground. ?
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Baidu encyclopedia: five elements