How the Five Elements Came into Being What the Five Elements Are is a doctrine

The five sides say, the five stars say, the five materials say and the six mansions and three things say.

Month: Wood; June, July: Fire; September, October: Golden Month: Water; 2, 5, 8, 11: Earth.

The five elements depend on each other: if the sky has no earth, it cannot cover the earth; If the earth has no soil, it will not be able to bear the evils of the earth, and there will be nowhere for grain to grow. If a person has no soil, he cannot reproduce naturally and the five constants will not stand. Therefore heaven, earth and man shall not be without soil.

If there is no soil in the wood, it will lose the power of cultivation; If the fire has no earth, it cannot shine in all directions.

If there is no earth, it is difficult to exert sharp energy; If water has no soil, it cannot overflow in all directions by means of the terrain. If the soil has no water and no wood, it cannot sustain all things; Without fire and without gold, it cannot multiply. This is the indispensable principle of the five elements, and the five elements are built from this.

Origin of the Five Elements:

When heaven and earth are not divided, it is called a state of chaos. Heaven and earth are mixed together, the sun, moon and stars are not generated, the cold and heat of day and night do not alternate, there is no wind, rain, thunder and lightning above, and there is no grass, trees, mountains, rivers, people, birds, insects and beasts below. At this time, a stream of aura met and ran in the inner and simpler, so water was born from Taiyi, fire was born from Taiyi, wood was born from Taishi, gold was born from Taisu, and earth was born from Taiji.

This is where the five elements come from.

1 In ancient times, 10 months a year, 5 seasons, 2 January and February, spring wood, germination,,, wood fire, 3 March and April, summer fire, luxuriant... Fire gives birth to earth.

4 May and June, long summer soil, full of transport. Native gold.

5 July and August, autumn gold, ripe, convergent, dry... Jin Shengshui.

6 September and October Winter water, sealed, frozen, solidified... Aquatic wood.

7 Corresponds to spring and summer, and winter storage.

8 The concept of the five shapes, Taoist medicine has not changed since ancient times (most medical schools have distorted the explanation of the five shapes, for example, metal can cut down trees (the actual gold is the germination of convergent and restrained wood)), but the scope of application has gradually expanded, and the degree of application has gradually become proficient.

9 Yin and Yang Five Forms are the foundation of East Asian culture, which is accurately passed down by one in hundreds of thousands of Taoist elites, (in ancient times, it was also known as the art of the emperor, the technique of royal secrecy, although the royal family did not understand and could not use it, but he wanted to monopolize secrecy).

The ancestors are good at summarizing and summarizing, and found that these five properties can be used to summarize all things that are visible and invisible to the human eye, and later the astrological technology is mature, and the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, are different from the earth, and they also affect the climate of the earth through the analysis of the five-shaped Shengke principle, (according to the five-shaped astrological climate law, you can judge which disease is more prevalent in that year).

The names of the five planets of the solar system also come from the pentagrams, due to their different attributes that affect the Earth's climate.

After the maturity of medicine, the five forms are also used to summarize physiological phenomena, and the physiological health and diseases of mammals and birds can be completely summarized by using the principle of five shapes. (Some modern European schools also use three types and four forms to summarize the attributes of life).

The five elements of the human body say.

The theory of the five elements of the human body is the basic mode for ancient Chinese people to understand the world, and it is also a term used by ancient thinkers to explain the origin and multi-origin of all things in the universe, which is an important part of ancient Chinese philosophy. In the Five Elements Theory, the world is understood by the characteristics of the five substances of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth in nature, as well as the laws of "mutual generation" and "mutual restraint". Such as:

The five mountains, the five directions, the five flavors, the five fruits, and the five internal organs explain the multi-source and unity of the origin of the universe. In the Confucian classic "Shangshu Da Biography", it is said that "those who are on fire and water are the ones who eat and drink at the beginning of a hundred years; The one who is golden and wood, the beginning of a hundred beginnings; The earth is the source of all things. "In "Shangshu Hongfan" said:

One day of water, two days of fire, three days of wood, four days of gold, five days of earth, water and sun, fire and fire, wood and straight, gold and day, gold and water, water and wood, and wood and earth, earth and water, fire and gold, and gold and wood" are applied to ancient Chinese medicine to explain the attributes of the five elements of human organs. In the "Neijing, Lingshu, Tongtian", it is said: "Between heaven and earth, within the Liuhe, there is no separation from the five, and people should also do it."

The theory of the five elements in ancient Chinese medicine is manifested in the correspondence between the five organs, five internal organs, five senses, five elements, emotions and the five elements. According to the law of mutual restraint in the five elements, the five organs and five elements of liver wood, heart fire, spleen and soil, lung gold, and kidney water are freely matched and become the thinking tools of ancient Chinese medicine. The doctrine of yin and yang states:

There is yin and yang on the outside of the human body, and there is yin and yang on the inside. Outside, the sky is yang, and the earth is yin; The sun is yang, the moon is yin, the day is yang, the night is yin, spring and summer are yang, and autumn and winter are yin. Inside, the five organs are yin, the six organs are yang, and the five organs are divided into yin and yang.

On the basis of the theory of yin and yang, the theory of the five elements further explains the yin and yang of the viscera with the law of restraint of the five elements, as well as the internal complex relationship between the unity of opposites, whether it is the yin and yang of the human body or the external yin and yang, the five elements in nature or the five elements in the human body, all expound the overall view of man and nature, that is, "the unity of heaven and man", sometimes called "the correspondence between heaven and man". Such as: the influence of the season on the human body, spring, natural plants and trees germinate, the temperature warms, all things rise, and the main birth.

In summer, the weather is hot, the vegetation is lush, there are many animals, and the reproduction is fast, and the main growth is also the main one. In autumn, when the weather is cool, the grass and trees are zeroed, and the essence of the trees will be collected to the roots. In winter, the weather is cold, animals hibernate, people hide indoors, and the heavens and the earth are all closed.

The law of the four seasons corresponds to the human body, so the holistic view of "the unity of heaven and man" (the correspondence between heaven and man) in ancient Chinese medicine is an important embodiment of contemporary ecological ethics.