#FIVE ELEMENTS FREE#
For example, the properties of flexing and extending, growth and development as well as free activity all pertain to the wood element warmth, heat, ascending and brightness all pertain to the category of fire reception, cultivation and transformation all pertain to the category of earth change, depuration and astringency all pertain to the category of metal and moistening, downward movement, cold and coolness, as well as closure and storage all, pertain to the category of water. In order to explain the properties of more things, people abstracted the properties of the five elements for extensive application, broadened their implications. Such examples are "water moistens and flows downward," "fire flames upward," "wood can be flexed and extended," "metal can be changed in form" and "earth can grow crops," etc. The early understandings of the characteristics and properties for wood, fire, earth, metal and water derived from observing the natural world. Only when restraint exists in promotion and promotion in restraint, can the normal development and harmonious balance of things be maintained.Ĭategorization According To Five Elements Theory
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Without promotion, nothing can grow and develop without restraint, there will be no way to prevent harm caused by excessive development of things. Equilibrium between Two Cycles: The two cycles among the five elements are in fact inseparable.For example, if Metal becomes weak, it will be reversely controlled by Wood if Earth is weak, it will be reversely restrained by Water. one element becomes weak and is restrained by the one it is superior to.For instance, if Wood becomes too powerful, it will reversely restrain Metal, if Fire becomes too strong, it will reversely restrain Water. one element becomes very powerful and turns to control the element that it is normally inferior to.For example, if Earth becomes weak, it will be excessively restrained by Wood if Water is weak, it will be excessively restrained by Earth. one element becomes weak and provides the element normally controlling it a chance to excessively restrain it.For example, if Wood is too powerful, it will excessively restrain Earth if Water is too strong, it will over control Fire.
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one element becomes too powerful and, in turn, excessively restrains the element that it normally controls.