What is China's Five Elements Theory? What does meridian You Mao mean?

China's theory of five elements is China's material view in ancient times, and meridians are ancient times. The specific explanation is as follows:

0 1. Five Elements Theory China's Five Elements Theory is a grand material view used in ancient China to explain the operational relationship between various things in traditional Chinese medicine and divination, thus linking people with everything in nature. It has a very long history and was put forward as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

Five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. Everything in the world is composed of these five elements, which interact with each other to maintain the harmony and unity of nature. There is a mutual relationship between the five elements, and there is also a mutual relationship. Our ancestors explored this relationship to explain the changes between things.

02. Woods You Mao is a method of expressing time in ancient China, which corresponds to night, noon, morning and evening respectively. Corresponding to the current time, it is 23:00- 1:00 at midnight, 1:00- 13:00 at noon, 5:00-7:00 in the morning and 65438 at night.

If it is associated with the above five elements, the meridian You Mao also plays an extremely important role in the eight characters of Feng Shui: the son is in the north, and the five acts are water; In the afternoon, five acts of fire; Shi Mao is in the east, and the five behaviors are wood; When you are in the west, five acts of gold. Therefore, zi and Wu are in harmony, and Mao and you are in harmony.

03. heavenly stems and earthly branches and You Mao are the first, seventh, fourth and tenth branches of the earth respectively. Heavenly stems and earthly branches is an ancient calendar in China, which originated from ancient people's observation of astronomical phenomena, and was later combined with the five elements for Chinese medicine and divination.

The positions of wood, fire, water and soil in the sky are as follows: wood, fire, gold and water are in the southeast and northwest respectively, and soil is in the center.

To sum up, we know that the five elements are a view of matter, and the meridians represent a view of time. The ancients combined the concept of matter with the concept of time and formed their world outlook at that time.