What are the five elements?

Yes, the original meaning is rendezvous. There are also meanings such as understanding, being good at, and gathering. The name "Hui" means understanding, ability and intelligence, and it means auspiciousness and connotation. The theory of five elements is a kind of material view in ancient China, which is mostly used in philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine and divination. It emphasizes the whole and aims to describe the movement form and transformation relationship of things. The meaning of the Five Elements Theory includes five basic trends in the evolution of Yin and Yang. Ancient philosophers in China used the theory of five elements to explain the formation of all things in the world and their relationships.

Elemental theory and five elements theory;

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Cai Mo put forward the idea of five elements winning each other (grams), which is a cyclic number in the order of wood, fire, gold and water, fixed the order of winning (grams) and life, formed a contradictory and unified model between things, and reflected the internal structural relationship of things and the idea of overall grasp. During this period, Neijing applied the theory of five elements to medicine, which played an important role in studying and sorting out a large number of clinical experiences accumulated by the ancients and forming a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.