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In Chinese philosophy, water (Chinese: 水; pinyin: shuǐ) is the low point of matter. It is considered matter's dying or hiding stage. [1] Water is the fifth of the five elements of wuxing. Among the five elements, water is the most yin in character. Its motion is downward and inward, and its energy is stillness and conserving.
Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), [a] usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, [2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of ...
Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day ...
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Wuxing (text) (五行), a Chinese "Warring States" text; Five Animals ("Five Forms") (五形), a kind of Chinese martial arts; Five Punishments (五刑), a series of physical penalties in dynastic China; Wuxing (c. 630) Chinese monk who travelled to India and mentioned by Yijing, died in Northern India.
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Wu xing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: Wǔxíng) is a Warring States period text ascribed to Zisi, known mainly due to the Mawangdui Han tombs site (1973, sealed 168 BCE) and Guodian (1993, sealed about 300 BCE) discoveries.
In Chinese philosophy, earth or soil (Chinese: 土; pinyin: tǔ) is one of the five concepts that conform the wuxing. Earth is the balance of both yin and yang in the Wuxing philosophy, as well as the changing or central point of physical matter or a subject. [1] Its motion is centralising, and its energy is stabilizing and conserving.