The Heavenly Stems and the Five Elements of Yin and Yang are the wisdom of the ancients, and the "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches" of the ancients had the meaning of taking the stems and branches of trees. It is said that the earliest concept of the day is "stem", and the month is divided into yin and yang, and yin and yang symbolize the earth and the sky, so it is called the heavenly stem and the earth branch.
The ten days are: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and DE.
The 12 earthly branches are: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.
The ancients used the mutual cooperation of the sexagenary branches as the chronological method, and at the same time, they also divided the sexagenary branches into different yin and yang five elements attributes and different directions. So, what exactly do the five elements and corresponding directions of the heavenly and terrestrial branches refer to?
"Yin and Yang Five Elements" is a general term, in fact, it refers to "Yin and Yang" and "Five Elements", the two complement each other, the five elements are Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang are both five elements.
The ancients divided the attributes of all things in the universe into two categories, that is, one yin and one yang. Because the formation, change, and development of all things are the result of the interaction between yin and yang, the so-called interaction is interdependence, mutual movement, and mutual opposition.
The "Five Elements" are divided into five different attributes for a certain thing or thing, namely: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the five attributes are mutually restrictive and mutually restrictive. It is precisely because of the duties of life and restraint that nature can be balanced, so that it can be endless, and it can survive.
The relationship between the five elements is: wood and earth, soil and water, water and fire, fire and gold, and gold and wood.
The relationship between the five elements is: 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.
We already know that there are ten heavenly stems, and the five elements are full of attributes "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth". In the ten-day stem "A, B, C, D, pente, hexagen, xin, and non decay", 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 Ding are fire (C is yang fire, Ding is yin fire), Wu Ji is earth (E is yang soil, Ji is yin soil), Gengxin is gold (Geng is yang gold, Xin is yin gold), and decay is water (non is yang water, decay is yin water).
Actually, this 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 for the wood to start, all of them are the five elements of the relationship. That is, group A and B are wood, wood makes fire, the following group is fire, fire gives birth to earth, and the following Wuji group is earth, and the earth is born of gold .........
There are a total of 12 earth branches, and of course, they are also full of the attributes of the five elements of "gold, wood, water, fire, and earth". Because the earthly branch is twelve, corresponding to twelve months, and the months are divided into four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, there is a time of transformation in the middle, and people will take the five elements of the transformation attribute as soil.
The corresponding months of the 12 earthly branches: January is Yin, February is Mao, March is Chen, April is Si, May is Wu, June is Wei, July is Shen, August is You, 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, namely: Yin Mao is wood, Siwu is fire, Shen You is gold, Haizi is water, and Chen Wei Shu Chou is earth.
In fact, this is also a good memory, according to the corresponding month of the earth branch, three as a group, in addition to the last attribute of each group "earth", from January to the earth branch Yin Mao began to be wood, has noon for fire, Shen You for gold, Haizi for water.
Its yin and yang attributes, as long as you remember the order of the twelve earthly branches, "Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen Youhai Hai", starting from "Zi", one yin and one yang, that is: Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu are yang branches, and Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai are yin branches.
First of all, we need to know the direction corresponding to the attributes of the five elements. According to the Five Elements Doctrine, the east is wood, the south is fire, the west is gold, the north is water, and ** is earth.
As you know, there are 12 months in a year, and three months are a season: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Corresponding to the four seasons, namely: the spring season belongs to the wood, which is due east;summer is fire , due southautumn season belongs to gold , is due westIn winter it is water and is due north .
In the ten heavenly stems, A and B are wood, then they correspond to the east, propylene is fire, which corresponds to the south, Wuji soil corresponds to **, Gengxin Jin corresponds to the west, and non-decay water corresponds to the north.
Among the twelve earthly branches, Yin Mao belongs to wood, corresponding to the east, Siwu belongs to fire, corresponding to the south, Shen You belongs to gold, corresponding to the west, Haizi belongs to water, corresponding to the north, and Chen, Xu, Chou, and Wei belong to the earth, corresponding to **.
The corresponding direction of the heavenly and earthly branches, the simple direction division is like this, namely: Jiayi Yin Maomu in the east, Bingding Si noon fire in the south, Gengxin Shen Youjin in the west, Non Guihai Zishui in the north, and Wu Jichen Chouwei ** soil.
In our lives, there are eight directions commonly used, namely: east, west, south, north, southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast, each of which has 45 degrees. If all the directions of the heavenly and earthly branches are placed in the directions, according to the precise division on the compass, the 8 directions we talk about in daily life are subdivided into 24 directions, each of which is 15 degrees, which is called "24 mountain directions" in feng shui.
Although the direction is divided into "twenty-four mountain directions", there are a total of twenty-two stems and earthly branches, so the "heaven, earth, sun and moon" are added, that is, two are Kunkun. Dry is the sky, Kun is the earth, one yang and one yin.
The detailed directions of the 24 mountains are arranged in order, starting from due north, clockwise as follows: Zi, Gui, Chou, Gen, Yin, Jia, Mao, B, Chen, Xun, Si, C, Wu, Ding, Wei, Kun, Shen, Geng, You, Xin, Xu, Qian, Hai, Ren.
Seeing this, I believe that everyone should also understand the five elements and corresponding directions of the heavenly and earthly branches, 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 collect!