What do fire, water and earth in Jin Mu represent?

Gold, wood, water, fire and earth are collectively called the five elements, which refer to the five basic elements that make up matter.

Ancient philosophers in China used the theory of five elements to explain the formation of all things in the world and their relationships. Water (moistening the lower part), fire (burning the upper part), gold (convergence), wood (extension) and soil (neutralization). The theory of five elements emphasizes the whole concept and aims to describe the movement form and transformation relationship of things.

Yin and Yang are the ancient theory of unity of opposites, and the five elements are the original general system theory.

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Origin of five elements:

Regardless of time, heaven and earth are called chaotic state. Heaven and earth are mixed together, the sun, the moon and the stars are not born, and there is no alternation between cold and summer. There is no wind, no rain, no lightning, no vegetation, no mountains, no rivers, no people, no birds, no insects and no animals below.

At this time, a kind of aura was running inside, so water was born from Taiyi, fire was born from the beginning, wood was born from the beginning, gold was born from Tai Su, and Taiji was unearthed. The five elements come from this. From then on, heaven and earth developed separately.

These five elements are interdependent:

If the sky has no soil, it can't cover the earth; If there is no soil on the ground, it can't carry everything on the ground, and there is nowhere for grain to grow; Without soil, people can't reproduce naturally without five years. So heaven and earth can't be soilless.

If wood is soilless, it has no power to cultivate; If fire is soilless, it can't shine everywhere; If gold is soilless, it is difficult to be sharp; If water is soilless, it can't flow around by topography. If there is no water and wood in the soil, nothing can grow; Without fire and gold, it cannot thrive. This is the essential truth of the five elements, and the five elements are also constructed from it.