China Traditional Question: What are the five-element symbols? What is the Five Elements Culture? What is the five-element color? How did it come into being? Ask the superior to answer!

Symbols of five elements: golden wood fire, water and earth.

The corresponding five colors are: white, blue, black, red and yellow.

The word "five elements" first appeared in Shangshu by Shi Gan and Hong Fan. In Shi Gan, it means that "Hu Shi threatened the five elements, neglected the three meanings, and destroyed his life by heaven". "Hong Fan" pointed out that "guns are flooding, and five elements of Chen Qi are gurgling; 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. " 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 "five elements" have been clearly defined as water, fire, wood, gold and earth in Hong Fan, and are considered to be the first. In Zhou Youwang, the "five elements" are considered as five matrices that make up everything. There are also "five elements" in Zuozhuan. Here, he is regarded as a "native five elements", which is closely related to the "five materials" and the reproduction of the earth.

The attributes of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, gold and water are as follows:

Wood-yue "straight". It is gorgeous and has an elegant personality. Wood stands for benevolence, meaning love and good deeds.

Fire-yue "inflammation". Impatient and full of self-esteem The representative ceremony of fire is to be modest and prudent, to respect, and not to bully the weak and be afraid of the hard.

Du Yue's Wheat Field. Gentle and honest temperament, but with confidence. A simple letter means honesty, gentleness and sincerity.

Jin Yue's From the Skin. Strong-willed and self-respecting. Gold stands for righteousness, that is, advocating good and abandoning evil, and everything is reasonable.

Water-Yue's Running Down. People are smart and can guess things. Wateriness represents wisdom, that is, careful observation of things, precursor prediction of anything, and good at business tactics.

It can also be said that it is the five elements of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith.

Five internal organs: wood liver; Fire is the heart; Soil is spleen; Gold is the lung; Water is the kidney.

Five colors: wood represents cyan; Fire represents red; Earth represents yellow; Gold represents white; Water represents black.

Five aspects: wood is east, fire is south, gold is west, water is north, and soil is middle.