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1, five elements

Pinyin: [wǔ xíng]

The Five Elements is a systematic view of China's ancient philosophy, which is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, geomantic omen, numerology, physiognomy and divination. The meaning of the five elements includes five basic trends in the evolution of Yin and Yang: water (for infiltration), fire (for disillusionment), gold (for convergence), wood (for growth) and earth (for integration).

Ancient philosophers in China used the theory of five elements to explain the formation of all things in the world and their relationships. It emphasizes the whole and aims to describe the movement form and transformation relationship of things. Yin and Yang are ancient theories of unity of opposites, and the five elements are primitive system theories.

2. cereals

Pinyin: [wǔ gǔ]

Five kinds of grains are commonly known as "grains". There are many sayings about "five grains" in ancient times, and there are two main ones: one refers to rice, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice; The other refers to hemp, millet, millet, wheat and glutinous rice.

The difference between the two is that the former has rice without hemp, while the latter has hemp without rice. The ancient economic and cultural center was in the Yellow River Basin.

The main producing area of rice is in the south, and the cultivation of rice in the north is limited, so there is no rice in the beginning.

3. colorful

Pinyin: [w ǔ c ǔ i]

Multicolor is blue, yellow, red, white and black, which refers to all kinds of colors. These five colors respectively represent wood, gold, fire, water and earth in the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. At the same time, it symbolizes east, west, south, north and China respectively, and contains five kinds of divine power. It was invented and developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main colors are red, yellow, green, blue, black and purple.

Extended data:

[wǔ]

Wu is a commonly used Chinese character, which was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Its original meaning is elements of the universe, such as gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which represents the limit number of elements of the universe, which is greater than four and less than six. Later, it was extended to ancient military establishment units and one of the phonetic names in Gongzhipu.

Five legendary rulers

Five tribal leaders or tribal alliance leaders in the Five Emperors era. Because of its greatness, it was honored as the emperor by later generations. Refers to: Yellow Emperor, Zhuan Xu.

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, Yao, Shun.