The five elements refer to wood, fire, earth, gold, and water. The meaning of the five elements: Five refers to the five substances and their properties;Action, is the movement of action.
Traditional Chinese medicine uses the Five Elements to illustrate physiology and pathology, as well as the mutual restraint between them. This is in line with natural phenomena and laws, because our ancients understood the world by observing objects and natural phenomena in the natural world, and also used it to understand the physiology and pathology of the human body, because human beings are also a member of the natural world, and all substances in nature are classified by five material attributes. The ancients still couldn't understand particles such as air and molecular ions, so if you want to ask which of the five elements the air molecules belong to, it's really hard to answer, and you can only slowly summarize and define it through the theory of traditional Chinese medicine later, but I personally think that air should belong to the earth.
What does wood mean?Wood refers to a class of material objects and their properties that can grow upwards like plants and trees in nature. What is fire?Fire is a material object and its properties that can heat up warmth like fire burning in nature. What is soil?Soil refers to the material objects and their properties that can be transported and nurtured like soil in nature. What is Kim?Gold refers to material objects and their properties with the same characteristics as various metals in nature, such as hardness, sharpness, dryness, etc. What is water?Water is a material object with properties like water in nature and its properties, such as water has moisture, moisture, nutrition, sealing (everything is hidden in water), etc.
There are five kinds of substances: wood, fire, earth, gold, and water, each with its own special abilities. Wood can be drained, fire can be promoted, soil can be transported, gold can be astringent, and water can be sealed.
The five elements are born together: wood produces fire (firewood is heated to produce fire), fire produces earth (the ashes after fire is burned are earth), earth produces gold (metals are found in the soil), gold produces water (metal is melted into a liquid state is water), and aquatic wood (water can water trees and flowers).
The five elements are mutually restrictive: Mu Ke Tu (planting plants, soil will not be lost), Tu Ke Water (soil can change the direction of water flow), Water Ke Fire (water can cool down and extinguish fire), Fire Ke Jin (fire heating can make metal melt), Jin Ke Mu (knives can cut grass and trees).