Yin-Yang and Five Elements
Yin-Yang refers to the two opposing yet interconnected forces that exist in everything in the world. From the previous description, we can already understand that Yin and Yang are inherently contained in Qi. One Qi is popular, Wuji is Tai Chi, and the movement and stillness of Tai Chi produce yin and yang, and yin and yang in turn promote the movement and changes of the world and everything in it. The five elements are categories used to summarize several basic elements in the world. They are named after wood, fire, earth, metal, and water, but they do not just refer to these specific things themselves, but use them as the basic framework, or as a thinking model, to divide all phenomena into five basic categories. The five elements are the basic elements of the world.
The Yin-Yang theory originated in the Xia Dynasty and is the origin and foundation of ancient Chinese philosophy. Today's view of the unity of opposites in materialist dialectics is consistent with the Yin and Yang theory. The principles of Yin and Yang theory are widely used in every field of social life, and people apply them unconsciously.
Yin and Yang include the five elements, and the five elements contain Yin and Yang. All things in the universe can be divided into two categories according to their attributes, Yin and Yang. The "yang type" has the characteristics of being strong, upward, growing, showing, extroverted, stretching, bright, positive, and active; the "yin type" has the characteristics of being weak, downward, converging, hidden, introverted, shrinking, saving, passive, and quiet, etc. feature. I have the duality of yin and yang in any specific matter. That is, there is yang within yin, and yin within yang.
No huge thing can escape the category of yin and yang, and any small thing has two aspects of yin and yang. Yin and yang can transform into each other under certain conditions. The phenomenon that the extremes of things must be reversed is part of the transformation of yin and yang. form of expression.
Everything in the universe can be systematically divided into five major categories according to its characteristics: "metal", "wood", "water", "fire" and "earth". These five categories of things are collectively called the Five Elements. Metal, wood, water, fire and earth do not refer to five specific single things, but an abstract summary of five different attributes of everything in the universe. The true connotation of the five elements should be fully understood.
There is a relationship between the five elements, which are the two contradictory aspects, that is, the two aspects of yin and yang. Mutual growth and mutual restraint are the universal laws of things, and they are two inseparable aspects within things. Life and restraint are relative. Without birth, there is no such thing as restraint; without restraint, there is no such thing as birth. If there is no restraint, things will develop endlessly and go to extremes, causing things to turn from good to bad; if there is restraint but no birth, things will lose their vitality and decline due to being suppressed too much.
In the contradiction between opposition and unity, whether it is excessive generation or excessive restraint, the relative balance or unity will be broken due to opposition, and things will develop in one direction. In order to maintain relative balance, life and restraint must restrain each other. When they cannot restrain each other, the balance is broken, and then things will undergo new changes.
The five elements generate and inhibit each other
Water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal, and metal generates water.
Water defeats fire, fire defeats metal, metal defeats wood, wood defeats earth, and earth defeats water.
Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and Yin and Yang
Heavenly Stems: A, B, C, D, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui
Yintian Stems: B , Ding, Ji, Xin, Gui
Yang Heavenly Stems: Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng, Ren
Earthly Branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai
Yang Earthly Branches: Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, Xu
Yin Earthly Branches: Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, Hai
Yin and Yang Five Elements
Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth
Five Elements and Four Directions: The east belongs to wood, the south belongs to fire, the west belongs to metal, the north belongs to water, and the center belongs to water. Belonging to earth.