The relationship between water, fire, soil and orientation (southeast, northwest and central) in Jin Mu.

Main wood, west main gold, north main water, south main fire and middle main soil.

Gold means strong and solidified.

Wood represents the function and root of life. The Chinese character "Sheng" well explains the "wood" in the five elements. Life is an pictographic character, and below it is a word "earth", which represents a branch and a leaf that broke through the ground.

Water stands for flow, which means circulation and circumferential flow.

Fire represents heat energy.

The earth represents the earth itself. So the soil is centered on the five elements.

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Five-element correlation

First of all, the months of the calendar are based on five elements.

1, yin, wool, genus wood, dominating spring, representing east;

2. Fourth, noon and the end of the month belong to fire, which dominates summer and represents the south;

3. Shen, the moon belongs to gold, dominating autumn, representing the west;

4. Hai, Zi and Ugly Moon belong to water, which is the main winter and represents the north;

5. Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou, each belonging to the soil, are the four sides of the soil and dominate the last month of the four seasons.

Second, the five elements refer to the five movements of qi.

1, Chunshu, represents the movement mode of gas diffusion around. In spring, flowers and trees flourish, the branches of trees spread around, and nutrients are transported to the branches, so spring belongs to trees.

2. Summer is fire, which means that qi moves upward. The characteristic of fire is upward. In summer, all kinds of plants grow upward and rapidly, so summer belongs to fire.

3. Autumn belongs to gold, which represents the movement mode of inward contraction of qi. Gold is characterized by stability, harvest in autumn, people save food for winter and leaves fall, so autumn belongs to gold.

4. Winter belongs to water, which means that qi moves downward. Water flows downwards, and everything sleeps in winter, saving nutrients for spring, so winter belongs to water.

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