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编者按：五行中用金木水火土怎么说呢?这些特殊的文字在英语中的解释是怎么样的呢?作者教我们来学着五行知识。Do you know these characters, especially the last one? I guess your face might be >_< or 囧 (jiǒng/embarrassed) How about these: 金, 木, 水, 火, 土? ( jīn, mù, shuǐ, huǒ, tǔ ) It's a piece of cake, right? Even if you are a Chinese beginner, the last row of characters is easy. When you live in China for some time and make friends with Chinese, it's not difficult for you to find that the first five words are a common component of Chinese names. My eleven year-old cousin's nickname is "Triple Gold" (三金 sān jīn) as his name is Xin (鑫 xīn). This word’s structure is rather special: it consists of a triplet of the character 金 (jīn). A college roommate's given name was also Xin (鑫 xīn). They both carry this second name "Xin" according to the traditional Wu Xing theory. What is "Wu Xing"? The Wu Xing, (五行 wŭ xíng) – also known as the “Five Phases”, the “Five Agents” or the “Five Movements” – are Wood (木 mù), Fire (火 huǒ), Earth (土 tǔ), Metal (金 jīn) and Water (水 shuǐ). In Chinese geomancy (divination practices such as "FengShui" ), if your destiny lacks either of these five elements, you might want to consider simply adding it, and enhancing your name with these words is a useful method. That's why the "Xin (鑫 xīn)" appears in my cousin and roommate's names. The words at the beginning of this article are the triple structures of the five elements: Sen (森 sēn) means forest and is the triplet of Mu (木); Miao (淼 miǎo) has the meaning of "wide expanse of water" and is the triplet ofShui (水); Xin (鑫 xīn) goes "prosperous or good profit" especially in business as the triplet ofJin (金); Yan (焱 yàn) is a formal usage of "spark" or "flame" and is the triplet of huo (火) Yao (垚 yáo) built up of three tu (土) describes a very high mountain. Once you understand the meaning and the structure of these words, they are not only as easy as ABC, but with their fortune-enhancing properties also very powerful tools for streamlining those elements in your Chinese name! Hey, it's your destiny after all. 公众号：HanFan汉风 本文为原创 文章 ，版权归作者所有，未经授权不得转载!
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In traditional Chinese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Wu Xing (Chinese: 五行; Pinyin: wǔxíng), or the Five Elements: metal (Chinese: 金; Pinyin: jīn), wood (Chinese: 木; Pinyin: mù), water (Chinese: 水; Pinyin: shuǐ), fire (Chinese: 火; Pinyin: huǒ), and earth (Chinese: 土; Pinyin: tǔ). These elements were used for describing interactions and relationships between phenomena. Five Phases is the more appropriate way of translating wǔxíng — literally, "five goings". Traditional Taijiquan schools relate them to footwork and refer to them as five "steps". The original foundation is based on the concept of the Five Cardinal Points.The doctrine of five phases describes two Cycles of Balance, a generating or creation (生, shēng) cycle and an overcoming or destruction (克, kè) cycle of interactions between the phases.[edit] GeneratingWood feeds Fire; Fire creates Earth (ash); Earth bears Metal; Metal collects Water and Water nourishes Wood. [edit] Overcomingwood parts earth; earth absorbs water; water quenches fire; fire melts metal and metal chops wood There are also two Cycles of Imbalance, an overacting cycle (cheng) and an insulting cycle (wu).Five Chinese Elements - Diurnal Cycle[edit] Circadian or Diurnal Cycle and other cyclesAccording to Chinese medical theory, each organ is associated with one of the Five Phases. It is believed to be more efficacious to treat an organ during a particular time period appropriate to it. The citation order of the Five Phases, i.e., the order in which they are cited in the Bo Hu Tong and other Han dynasty texts, is Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. The organs are most effectively treated, according to theory, in the following four-hour periods throughout the day, beginning with the 3 a.m. to 7 a. m. period: Metal organs (see the list below), Earth organs, Fire1 organs, Water organs, Fire2 (the "non-empirical" Pericardium and Triple Burner organs), and Wood organs, which is the reverse of the citation order (plus an extra use of Fire and the non-empirical organs to take care of the sixth four-hour period of the day). These two orders are further related to the sequence of the planets going outward from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Water, Metal, Fire, Wood, and Earth) by a star diagram similar to the one shown above.
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