What aspects does metaphysics refer to?

Metaphysics refers to mountains, medicine, physiognomy, fate and divination.

The Five Arts is an extremely important part of the traditional Taoist culture in China, and it is the most important classification in the huge and complicated Taoist system in China (called alchemy before Qin and Han Dynasties, or witchcraft in western terminology). It is generally believed that it includes five categories: mountain, medicine, life, divination and physiognomy. Metaphysics is a philosophical trend of thought that rose in the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty and mainly integrated Taoism and Confucianism, so it is usually called "Metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties". Metaphysics was the mainstream thought that replaced Confucian classics in Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Although the central issue discussed in metaphysics can still be attributed to the relationship between man and nature, in form, it has got rid of the tedious and broken annotations of Confucian classics in Han Dynasty. In content, it abandons the vulgar teleological argument of the Confucian classic "the feeling between man and nature". Metaphysical scholars have demonstrated from many aspects that the "nature" of Taoism is consistent with the "famous religion" of Confucianism. They changed the ideological pattern of "interaction between Confucianism and Taoism" in Han Dynasty, and advocated the unity of Confucianism and Taoism, and Confucius was still the highest "saint".

Evaluation of Five Techniques of Metaphysics

Metaphysics, in terms of its philosophical category, can be called metaphysics. "Metaphysics" is simply abstraction, and metaphysics is to explain and develop some abstract contents in a vivid way. Metaphysics in its prevailing era can also be called metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Metaphysics originated in Wei and Jin Dynasties and prevailed in Sui and Tang Dynasties, which was closely related to the society at that time.

Wei-Jin period was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms period, and the world was in chaos, so the culture was prosperous. Generally speaking, the world is in chaos and a hundred schools of thought contend. There is a sentence that can sum up the characteristics of metaphysics: the spirit of Sui and Tang Dynasties and the character of Wei and Jin Dynasties. The combination of these two reasons determines that metaphysics not only has a profound side, but also has the function of satisfying the spirit and comforting the soul. At the same time, it had a far-reaching impact on China culture, which was another collision and integration of China's thought after the pre-Qin period.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Five Metaphysics