What do you mean by five elements?

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.

The five elements, namely wood, fire, water, gold and earth, are everywhere between heaven and earth. They interact and develop with each other, maintaining the balance of nature. Wood represents the growing substance; Fire represents a substance that can give off heat energy; The earth represents nature itself; Water represents a flowing substance and can be recycled; Gold stands for solid matter. Wood fire is above the soil, and water and gold are below the soil, so wood fire belongs to yang, water and gold to yin, and soil to neutrality.

Following this cycle, the five elements are born together, that is, the five elements are born together, such as wood making a fire and fire making soil. If you go against the cycle, the five elements will contain each other, such as Mutuko and Tukeshui. The ancients used the relationship between yin and yang and the five elements to explain the relationship between everything, that is, the interaction of yin and yang in nature produced the five elements. The five elements interact, and everything is endless.

Property attribute

Gold, wood, water, fire and earth are five existing states with different quantitative changes in the process of the movement of Yin and Yang. Starting from the understanding that Yin and Yang are the basic substances of all things in the biochemical universe, all colorful things in the universe have different quantitative changes due to the interaction of Yin and Yang. In the contrast of different quantitative changes of yin and yang, different forms and motion States of things will naturally appear.

Since there are only five states of change in the interaction between Yin and Yang, in essence, everything in the universe must be the product of the five states of change of Yin and Yang. Starting from this understanding, everything in the universe must have specific and fixed properties in the five-element system, and this property is absolutely unchanged. For example, people, animals, plants and minerals are all produced by different yin and yang states, which is an unchangeable fact (the above contents are for reference only).