What exactly do Jin Xiu, Mu Xiang, aqua regia, Goblet of Fire and Earth Prisoner mean?

The five elements refer to gold, wood, water, fire and earth, as well as their movements and changes.

The theory of five elements is a simple dialectical materialism philosophy summed up by the ancient Han people from their life practice. Mostly used in philosophy, Chinese medicine and divination.

They believe that everything in the world is made up of five basic substances: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The development and changes of all things in nature are the result of the continuous movement and interaction of these five different substances. With the rise and fall of these five elements, they naturally change, which not only affects people's fate, but also makes everything in the universe circulate endlessly.

It emphasizes the whole concept and describes the structural relationship and movement form of things. If Yin and Yang are an ancient theory of unity of opposites, the five elements can be said to be an ancient general system theory.

The five elements have different forms of expression in different things, and the five elements of each thing are represented as the five elements of wood, fire, earth, gold and water respectively.

For example, five colors: green, red, yellow, white and black;

Five tones: horn, sign, palace, business and feather;

Five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty;

Five internal organs: liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney;

Five emotions: joy, joy, lust, anger and sadness;

The five permanent members: benevolence, courtesy, faithfulness, righteousness and wisdom.

The five elements have the order of generation, mutual generation and mutual control. The order of generations is wood, fire, earth, gold and water.

The order of mutual growth is wood fire, fire soil, primary gold, gold raw water and aquatic wood;

The order of mutual recognition is: water can overcome fire, fire can overcome gold, Jin Kemu, Muketu and Tuke water.

In the five elements, there are not only smooth grams, such as prosperity and decline, strong and weak, but also reverse grams, decline and prosperity, weak and strong. The soil is strong and the wood is weak, and the wood is subject to water; Wang Mu gold fell, and gold was subject to Muk; Water decays and fire flourishes, and water suffers from fire; Soil declines and water flourishes, and soil is affected by water; When a king is prosperous, his fire suffers. This is called anti-aggression.

In terms of seasons, spring belongs to wood, summer to fire, autumn to gold and winter to water. At the beginning of each season, that is, 18 days around beginning of spring, Changchun, beginning of autumn and beginning of winter, it belongs to the soil of four seasons.

Orientation is divided into southeast, northwest, middle, oriental wood, southern fire, western gold, northern water and intermediate soil.

Climate is divided into wind, cold, summer, wet and dry, wind belongs to wood, cold belongs to water, summer belongs to fire, wet belongs to soil and dry belongs to gold.

Colors are green, red, yellow, white, black, Aoki, Rise of the Legend, loess, platinum and black water. Other colors are just variations of green, red, yellow, white and black.

The taste is divided into sour, bitter, sweet and salty, sour belongs to wood, bitter belongs to fire, sweet belongs to earth, pungent belongs to gold and salty belongs to water.

The human body is divided into five internal organs, the five internal organs are heart, liver, lung, spleen and kidney, and the five internal organs are small intestine, large intestine, stomach, gallbladder and bladder.

Heart and small intestine belong to fire, lung and large intestine belong to gold, spleen and stomach belong to soil, liver and gallbladder belong to wood, kidney and bladder belong to water.

Emotions are divided into anger, joy, sadness and fear, among which anger belongs to wood, joy to fire, thinking to earth, sadness to gold and fear to water.

The so-called prosperity, phase, rest, imprisonment and death means that the person in charge is prosperous, I am born, I am born, I am imprisoned, I am imprisoned and I am dead. For example, if you were born in spring, you are Wang Mu, Fire, Water, Golden Prison, Soil Death, and so on.

Golden breath, wood phase, water flourishing, fire death, soil imprisonment, specifically winter.