What do the five flavors in fortune telling mean? _ What do the five flavors in fortune telling mean?

It seems that the five elements correspond to five flavors. What are they?

1, wood: acid, liver, spring, tendons, eyes and claws.

2. Fire: bitterness, heart, summer, pulse, tongue and face.

3, soil: sweet, spleen, long summer, meat, mouth, lips

4. Gold: pungent, lung, autumn, skin, nose and hair.

5. Water: salty, kidney, winter, bone, ear and hair.

Using the characteristics of the five elements, focusing on wood, fire, soil and water, all kinds of phenomena, characteristics, forms, functions and manifestations in nature are similar to the characteristics of a line in the five elements, so they can be classified into five categories.

On the basis of the attributes of the five elements, it systematically summarizes various complex phenomena according to categories, and arranges them into the laws of the five elements, thus explaining the relationships and changes among various types.

Extended data:

The Five Elements is a systematic view of China's ancient Taoist philosophy, which is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, geomantic omen, numerology, physiognomy and divination.

The meaning of the five elements includes five basic trends in the evolution of Yin and Yang: water (moistening the lower part), fire (burning the upper part), gold (converging), wood (prolonging) and earth (neutralizing).

Ancient philosophers in China used the theory of five elements to explain the formation of all things in the world and their relationships. It emphasizes the whole and aims to describe the movement form and transformation relationship of things. Yin and Yang are ancient theories of unity of opposites, and the five elements are primitive system theories.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Five Elements (Analogy of Everything)