The meaning of the heavenly stems and earthly branches corresponds to the five elements and directions, which makes people suddenly open up after interpretation
The heavenly stems and the five elements of yin and yang are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients. "Sexagenary branches", the ancients took the meaning from the trunk and branches. It is said that the oldest concept is the day of the day"Dry", the month is"branches", the moon and the sun belong to yin and yang, and yin and yang symbolize heaven and earth, so it is called"Sexagenary branches"。
The ten heavenly stems are A, B, C, D, E, G, G, C, N, and DEC.
The twelve earthly branches are: Zi, Mao, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.
The ancients used the interaction of the sexagenary branches as a method of dating, and also divided the sexagenary branches into five elements with different yin and yang attributes and different directions. So, what are the attributes of the five elements of the sexagenary branch and their corresponding directions?
The five elements of yin and yang. The five elements of yin and yang. "is a general term that actually refers to:"Yin and yang"with"Five elements"。Actually, it means"Yin and yang"with"Five elements"Complementing each other, the five elements are yin and yang, and yin and yang are combined with the five elements.
The ancients divided the attributes of all things in the universe into two categories: yin and yang. This is because the formation, change and development of all things are the result of the interaction of yin and yang, and the so-called interaction is interdependence, mutual movement, and mutual opposition.
Five elements"Refers to the five properties of a particular substance or thing, namely metal, wood, water, fire, and earth: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. These five attributes promote and constrain each other. It is through the mutual restraint of their respective actions that nature is balanced, and if existence is continuous, then it can be infinite.
The five elements are interrelated, namely wood and earth, earth and water, water and fire, fire and gold, and gold and wood.
The five elements are born together: wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, earth gives birth to gold, gold gives birth to water, and water gives birth to wood.
The five elements of the sexagenary branch.
We already know that there are ten stems"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth"The five elements are complete. In ten heavenly stems"A, B, C, D, Pentoxin, and nona", every two are a group, one yin and one yang, exactly five groups.
Corresponding to the five elements: A and B are wood (A is yang wood, B is yin wood), C and D are fire (C is yang fire, Ding is yin fire), E and Ji are earth (E is yang soil, Ji is yin earth), Geng, Xin are gold (Geng is yang gold, Xin is yin gold), and decay is water (non is yang water, and decay is yin water).
In fact, it is also very easy to remember, as long as you remember the order of the ten heavenly stems, two as a group, A and B are the beginning of the wood, there is a relationship between the five elements. That is to say: group A and B are wood, wood makes fire, the next group belongs to fire, fire gives birth to earth, and the next group of Wuji belongs to earth, and earth produces gold.
The twelve earthly branches are naturally possessed"Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth"Five Element Attributes. Since the twelve earthly branches correspond to the twelve months, and the months are divided into four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, there is a transition in the middle of time, and people will have the transformation time of the five element attributes.
The twelve earthly branches correspond to the months: January is Yin, February is Mao, March is Chen, April is Si, May is Wu, June is Wei, July is Shen, August is Chen, September is Shu, October is Hai, November is Zi, and December is Chou.
Therefore, the twelve earthly branches correspond to the attributes of the five elements: Yin Mao is wood, Siwu is fire, Shen You is gold, Wu Zi is water, and Chen Wei Chou is earth.
In fact, it is also worth reminding that according to the month corresponding to the earthly branch, there are three in each group, and the last attribute in each group is removed"Soil"From January, the earth branch Yin Mao began to be wood, noon was fire, Shen You was gold, and Hai was water.
Its yin and yang attributes, as long as you remember the twelve earthly branches"Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu did not apply for Youxu Hai"The order from"sub"At the beginning, one yin and one yang, namely: Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu are the yang branches, and Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai are the yin branches.
The sexagenary branch corresponds to the orientation.
First of all, we need to know the orientation corresponding to the attributes of the five elements. According to the attributes of the five elements, the east belongs to wood, the south belongs to fire, the west belongs to gold, the north belongs to water, and ** belongs to earth.
As we all know, there are twelve months in a year, and three months are a season, namely spring, summer, autumn and winter. Corresponding to the four seasons: spring wood, in the east;Summer fire, in the south;Autumn is golden, in the west;Winter belongs to the water, in the south.
In the ten heavenly stems, A and B are wood, corresponding to the east;C and D are fire, corresponding to the south;E, self is soil, corresponding to **;Geng, Xin is gold, corresponding to the West;Non and decay are water, corresponding to the north.
Among the twelve earthly branches, Yin Mao is wood, corresponding to the east;The noon is the fire, corresponding to the south;Shen You is gold, corresponding to the West;The meridian is water, which corresponds to the north;Chen, 戌, ugly, not for the soil, corresponding to **.
The corresponding direction of the heavenly and earthly branches, the simple direction division is as follows, namely: Jiayi Yin Umu in the east, Bingding Si Noon Fire in the south, Gengxin Shen Youjin in the west, Non Gui Haizi Water in the north, and Jichen Chouwei in the east.
In our lives, there are eight widely used directions, namely east, west, south, north, southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast, and each direction has forty-five degrees. If we insert the heavenly and earthly branches into the directions, according to the precise division of the compass, and then subdivide the eight directions we say every day into 24 directions, each of which has 15 degrees, which is called in Feng Shui"Twenty-four mountain directions"。
Although there are twenty-four directions, there are twenty-two heavenly and earthly branches, so there are"Heaven and earth, sun and moon", that is, Qiankun. Dry is the sky, Kun is the earth, there is yang and yin.
Twenty-four mountain directions"The detailed directions are: Zi, Gui, Chou, Gen, Yin, Jia, Mao, B, E, Chen, Xun, Si, C, Wu, Mao, Wei, Kun, Shen, Geng, You, Xin, Xu, Qian, Hai, Ren.
Seeing this, I believe that everyone should also have an understanding of the five elements and the corresponding directions to which the heavenly and terrestrial branches belong, and I hope it can be helpful to friends who want to understand this knowledge. Thank you for reading, it's not easy to code words, please bookmark!