How to divide the five elements of Chinese characters

the theory of five elements can even cover and explain all things and phenomena, involving all aspects of life, especially in traditional culture, which is more widely used. When learning, calligraphy and naming, free five-element query often encounters the problem of five-element attribute of Chinese characters. A hundred schools of thought contend about this, and there are different opinions, each holding its own word and unable to agree. So how should we correctly understand and distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters? The first type: distinguishing by strokes and numbers: A popular distinguishing method on the Internet is to distinguish the five-element attributes of Chinese characters by the single digits of their strokes. Firstly, Chinese character strokes are divided into 1 digits by using the number theory in the Five Elements for reference. For example, 1 and 2 belong to wood, 3 and 4 to fire, 5 and 6 to earth, 7 and 8 to gold, and 9 and to water. No matter how many pictures there are in this Chinese character, its mathematics will be determined by the number of the last digit. For example, Li, if it is 7 paintings, thinks it belongs to gold; Water is considered as fire, sea and 11 paintings, wood, constancy and 1 paintings, water and soil, etc. This digital classification method is mostly used by naming software, which regards water as fire, turns wood into gold and recognizes water as soil. Second, distinguish by radicals: to distinguish the attributes of Chinese characters, we must first trace back to the source and understand the formation of Chinese characters. Chinese characters are square characters, not letters or 1234, but typical hieroglyphics. At that time, when creating words, they were mostly created by their forms. For example, wood, "grass" and "bamboo" are the shapes of a tree or a plant. Fire and sun are a form of combustion and light. Water and rain are a trend of water flow or drifting, and soil, stone, mountain and jade are a form of soil, rock and mineral. Gold, "sharp knife, blade" is born in the soil, and the smelting device is a sharp weapon or cutting form. With these basic elements, we can apply them to more complex Chinese character structures. For example, for plants, a wooden character is given, for lighting and burning, a fire character and a sun character, for land minerals, for earth, stone, mountain and jade, for hard cutting, for gold characters, for flowing or water quality, and so on. With radical radicals, it is easy to distinguish what belongs to what, but some words are more complicated, and may have more than two kinds of five elements. At this time, it depends on which five elements are dominant and which five acts are secondary. When using them, the dominant five acts should be accurate and the second five elements should be considered. For example, catalpa is composed of a wood and a symplectic, and symplectic belongs to gold, so there are two elements of wood and gold, but catalpa is a kind of tree, so wood should be the main one, followed by gold. For example, plum, with wood above and water below, has two elements of Shui Mu, but in essence, it is also a plum tree, so it should be dominated by wood, followed by water. The third type: distinguish by the meaning of Chinese characters: how to distinguish those who are partial to the emperor without radicals? That still needs to be distinguished from the meaning. For example, "How many days are there?" How can these words be distinguished without five elements? Big, is composed of one and man, one belongs to wood, and man has a process of growth and aging, which is similar to wood, so the word can be regarded as wood. Many, it is composed of two evenings, one is the sunset, and the other is the fire. Heaven, the sky in which human beings live, is mainly composed of air, and air belongs to water, so heaven should be regarded as water theory; Of course, there is solar fire on sunny days, but there is more rain and dew on rainy days, so the sky is changing. When we take it, we should look at its static state, so we should make a water theory. Fang, Tianyuan place, Fang is a region, so it should belong to the soil. Xuan: stands for the north, and the north is water, so it should belong to water. Mouth and mouth are unintentional, and mouth is false. It can be seen that mouth is the external expression of heart, and heart is fire, so mouth should be regarded as fire theory. Ear, as kidney, is the external manifestation of kidney, and kidney is water, so ear should be regarded as water theory. There are more complicated ones, such as lungs, which are gold, so they can be regarded as gold theory. Wait, when the radicals are unclear, we should first distinguish them from the meaning of the words. The fourth type: distinguish by Chinese characters. In this respect, only this topic is listed for your consideration and reference. Why can be defined by what some glyphs look like, and why can be defined by what some words look like. For example, love is traditional, it is intentional, love is the external expression of the heart, and the heart belongs to fire, so love should be regarded as fire. Fifth, distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters by their sounds and rhythms, which is complicated and difficult to explain clearly. Only when other methods can't distinguish the five elements can we consider using them. Here is just a hint, we can make a conscious judgment according to the level of Chinese character pronunciation and sharp or dull degree. For example, high, sharp or ear-piercing, can be considered as gold; Round, moist or pleasant, it can be considered as water; Straight and long or thin, can be considered as wood; Urgent and dry can be considered as fire; What is heavy can be considered as soil, etc. Sixth: distinguish by the color of Chinese characters: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple, all of which are contained in the five elements. You may not know that color is the direct embodiment of the five elements, with a very strong color of the five elements, so you can also use the color of Chinese characters to judge their five elements. For example, red orange, red purple vermicelli, etc., belong to the red tone, and red belongs to fire. The green tone belongs to wood. Yellow earth belongs to soil, gold, silver and white belongs to gold, blue and black indigo belongs to water and so on. Seventh: Distinguish by Chinese characters: The ancients in China used 22 branches to record the years, and these branches all had distinct attributes of five elements. A, B, Yin and Mao belong to wood; Bingding is a fire in the afternoon; Wuji Chen's ugliness does not belong to the soil; Geng Xin Shen you belongs to gold; Hyacinth belongs to water. First of all, if you encounter these words, you can directly judge what they belong to by their own five-element attributes. Therefore, many people, especially the ancients, have direct symbols in their names, such as Huo Yuanjia and Han Geng. In fact, in Chinese characters, if these radicals appear, they can also be used to judge the five-element nature of the word. For example, if a duck has a jiazi, you can think that the word has a wooden component first. For example, Chen, with the word Chen, you can think it belongs to the earth. For example, with a letter, you can think it belongs to gold. Wait a minute. Eighth: distinguish by Chinese characters' orientation: some characters indicate orientation, such as east, west, north, south, southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest, and heaven, earth, up, down, left, right, front and back, etc. These Chinese characters, which represent orientation, have distinct five-element nature. For example, the north belongs to water, the south belongs to fire, the west belongs to gold and the east belongs to wood; Southwest belongs to dry soil with fire and wood, northwest belongs to dry soil with fire and gold, northeast belongs to wet soil with water and gold, and southeast belongs to wet soil with water and wood. On the ground, it is standing or floating, which can have wood or soil. The bottom is hidden or precipitated, which can contain water, soil and gold. If you look at it from the perspective of "going north, going south, going left and going right", it means that the water is on the top, the fire is on the bottom, the gold is on the left and the east is on the right. According to the natural environment of "Chaoyang in front and water in the back", the front is fire, and the back is water. Of course, according to the man-made environment, it can also be sun fire in front and soil behind the mountain. The above analysis is purely academic research, and it is only the opinion of one family. It is only for the reference of those who need it. It is not intended to deny other people's theories. Please carefully identify it and take practice as the standard.