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Chapter 071 Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water

The sky is created by Zi, the earth is established by Chou, and life is created by Yin.

Since the beginning of chaos, heaven and earth were created, and man stood in it. Heaven, earth, and man were established, and all things were created.

The pure ones float up to become the sky, and the turbid ones descend to the earth. The sage stands between the heaven and the earth, looking up at the astronomy, observing the geography, adjusting the yin and yang, and harmonizing all things.

The Way of Heaven is heavy on Son, the Way of Earth is heavy on ugliness, and the Way of Humanity is heavy on Yin.

Therefore, the Yin month is the first day of the year, and the beginning of spring is the New Year's Day. This is the method of the solar calendar.

Wood begins at the beginning of spring at Yin, reaches its peak at the spring equinox at Mao, and has a grounding energy at Chen Qingming.

The sage legislates, taking wood as a human being, born in the Yin month, double the Yin month, the beginning of spring is New Year's Day, the popularity is strong at the Mao Spring Equinox, and by the Qingming Festival, the popularity is buried in the earth, which is the Chen month, the popularity is buried in the earth, which is the sign of the popularity declining and being buried in the tomb. Therefore, he was buried with his popularity and set up a grave-sweeping ceremony on the Qingming Festival in Chenyue to pay homage to him.

When the wood energy enters the earth, it is like a person entering a tomb. Broken willows symbolize wood. Cold food and fire are forbidden, and the moon and the moon are clear.

Fire begins at the beginning of summer, reaches its peak in mid-summer, and is grounded before the summer heat. Although the sun is extremely hot, it roasts the earth and reacts with the earth to produce the effect of summer heat. It takes time. When the sun is not in the middle of the summer, it is grounded. Qi, summer qi is formed, and the heaven and earth are hot together.

Earth is strong in the four seasons, and the last months of the four seasons: Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou are all earth.

Although man is one of the three talents, he is ultimately made of earth, born in the earth, established on the earth, controlled by the earth, and returned to the earth. Human beings cannot live without soil throughout their lives.

Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou are all four earth moons that react violently with the earth's earth energy and the sun's yang energy.

Metal begins at Shenliqiu, reaches its peak at the Youqiu Equinox, and is grounded by the cold dew of Xu. Autumn is high and the air is crisp, and the weather is cool and grounded. It condenses into dew, which is the Xu month (cold dew).

Water starts from Hailidong, flourishes from Zi to winter solstice, and is grounded by Chou Xiaohan. When the sky is cold and the ground freezes, the earth is grounded when the sky is cold and the ground begins to freeze. This is Chou Yue Xiaohan.

The basis of the attributes of the five elements uses the relationship between life and restraint to explain and explain the interconnection and changes between things.

Like yin and yang, there is a law of mutual growth and restraint between the five elements.

Mutual growth and mutual restraint are two inseparable aspects of anything.

Without mutual generation, there would be no occurrence and development of anything; without mutual restraint, there would be no coordination and balance in the occurrence and development of things.

Mutual generation ensures the driving force and possibility of the development of things, and mutual restraint ensures the control and coordination of the development of things. This kind of relationship between things, where there is restraint and restraint, and they complement each other and make use of each other, promotes and maintains the continuous growth, change and development of things.

"Lei Jing Tu Yi" says: "The mechanism of creation cannot be without birth, nor without control. Without birth, development will have no basis, and without restraint, it will be overactive and harmful. The cycle of birth and restraint is endless, and the way of heaven and earth, This is infinite."

Using the various characteristics of the Five Elements, with wood, fire, earth, metal, and water as the center, any various phenomena, characteristics, forms, functions, expressions, etc. in nature are similar to the characteristics of a certain element in the Five Elements, and then summarize it into that element. , divided into five categories.

On the basis of the attributes of the five elements, we can systematically summarize them into categories and sort out the laws of the five elements from various complicated phenomena, so as to explain the connections and changes between the various types.

The five elements refer to the five mechanisms of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.

It is an abstract concept used to explain the relationship between things. It has a broad meaning and does not only refer to the five specific substances themselves. The Five Elements Theory uses the functional attributes of the five mechanisms to summarize the attributes of things or phenomena, and uses the mutual breeding and mutual restriction between the five to discuss and deduce the interrelationships and movement changes between things or phenomena.

The center of the five internal organs belongs to fire, the lungs belong to metal, the liver belongs to wood, the spleen belongs to earth, and the kidneys belong to water.

Everything that has the functions or properties of growth, hair growth, smoothness, etc., belongs to wood;

Mechanisms with warming, elevating effects or properties are attributed to fire.

Mechanisms with carrying, biochemical, and receptive functions all belong to soil.

Mechanisms with cleansing, soothing, and astringent effects are all attributed to gold.

It has the mechanisms of cooling, moisturizing, and downward movement, all of which belong to water.

The Five Elements Theory uses the relationship between the five elements to explain the interrelationship between things. It believes that nothing is isolated and static, but maintains coordination and balance in the constant movement of mutual generation and mutual inhibition.

Since ancient times, sages have skillfully applied the Five Elements theory to the medical field, used the dialectical relationship between the Five Elements to understand and explain physiological phenomena, tried their best to adapt to the internal natural laws to maintain health, and strived to master the operating mechanism of the human body to prevent and cure diseases, and have achieved great results. Unparalleled rich experience and results.

The five elements are five dynamically balanced modes of movement, rather than a specific element of reality. If this concept is wrong, it will be all errors among errors.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the idea of ​​the attribute theory that the five elements prevail (overcome) and produce each other was put forward, with wood, fire, earth, metal, and water as the order, which is a cyclical number, and the order of victory (overcoming) and birth has been fixed. , forming a pattern of contradictions and unity between things, embodying the internal structural relationships of things and the idea of ​​overall grasp.

Because during this period, the "Inner Canon" applied the Five Elements theory to medicine, which played an important role in researching and sorting out the large amount of clinical experience accumulated by ancient people and forming a unique theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine.

It is recorded in the "Five Emperors" chapter: "...the sky has five elements, water, fire, metal, wood and earth, which are transformed and nurtured in time to create all things. Their gods are called the Five Emperors."

The word "Five Elements" first appeared in "Gan Oath" and "Hong Fan" in "Shangshu". In "Gan Oath" it means "the Hu family insults the five elements and neglects the three righteousnesses, and the heaven will destroy them." Life."

"Hong Fan" points out that "Gun's flood, the gurgle of its five elements; the emperor was furious and refused to let Hong Fan Jiuchu... Gun then killed him, Yu Nai succeeded, the sky was Xi, Yu Hongfan Jiuchu, Yi Lun Yousu...

It puts forward the order of the five materials used by people, headed by water, as well as the properties and functions of the five materials, but it does not touch on the intrinsic relationship between the "five elements".

The formation of the Five Elements Theory may have multiple backgrounds.

First, Xihe began the practice of arithmetic and five elements during the period of the Five Emperors Yao and Shun, which has been verified by "Tong Zi Wen Yi" published by the People's Publishing House; second, it originated from the arithmeticization of the concept of orientation since the late Shang Dynasty, and there are in the oracle bone inscriptions There are many records about the "Four Directions" and "Four Soils". The concept of the five directions of east, west, south, north and center has been formed in the late Shang Dynasty.

The mathematical reduction of this concept of orientation was completed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. For example, "Mozi Guiyi" has sequence and orientation, such as "Book of Rites: Qu Li Shang" "Xing, Zhuniao (bird) in front and Xuanwu in the back, A blue dragon on the left and a white tiger on the right, swaggering above." "Historical Records: Tianguan Shu" records the observation of the celestial phenomena in the four seasons.

Third, it comes from the "Five Materials Theory" that has gradually emerged since the late Western Zhou Dynasty. The Five Elements originally originated from the Five Materials, and the Five Materials were derived from the Six Houses.

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To be continued

Chapter 072 Preview of the Five Elements, Yin and Yang