What is a golden life and a wooden life?

Five elements, as China's ancient philosophy system view, originated from the Taoist theory of five elements, and were widely used in the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, geomantic omen, numerology, physiognomy and divination. The so-called five-element system means that the ancients divided everything in the universe into five kinds, namely wood, fire, earth, gold and water. According to Shang Shu Hong Fan, the five elements: water, fire, wood, gold and earth. Water is wet (moist), fire is burning (burning), wood is straight (bent, loose), gold leather (dense composition, easy to divide), soil fertilizer (meaning sowing and harvesting). Moisturizing is salty, inflammation is bitter, straight is sour, leather is spicy, and farming is sweet. " This is the earliest record of the meaning of the five elements.

At that time, the ancients liked to use the theory of five elements to explain the formation of everything in the world and their relationship. At that time, the theory of five elements was a theory of analogy, which was not only a simple theory of five elements, but divided everything into five categories according to certain attributes, which was quite different from the four elements of earth, water, fire and wind in ancient western countries. This is a theory that integrates philosophy, divination, fortune telling, calendar, traditional Chinese medicine, sociology and many other studies.

From the perspective of the Five Elements, Destiny is a theory that the ancients combined the Yin-Yang theory with the Five Elements theory to explain various natural and life phenomena. Because of the low productivity at that time, most people were very difficult to face natural and man-made disasters, and naturally they all wanted to know their own destiny. At that time, the fate of the five elements was mainly calculated by birth date. At that time, the heavenly stems and earthly branches were used to represent the year, month and day of birth.

The heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, together, can produce sixty jiazi, which is called sixty years. Because everyone's birthday contains five elements, the ancients thought that you can calculate what your life is missing according to your birthday. As long as you use your name to make up for the missing one of these five elements, your fate will be particularly good after the five elements are complete.