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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 ...
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.
The element plays an important role in Chinese astrology and feng shui. Fire is included in the 10 heavenly stems (the five elements in their yin and yang forms), which combine with the 12 Earthly Branches (or Chinese signs of the zodiac), to form the 60 year cycle. Yang Fire years end in 6 (e.g. 1976). (Yang years end in an even number.)
In Chinese philosophy, metal or gold (Chinese: 金; pinyin: jīn), In the Wu Xing, it is the return or the declining stage.In Traditional Chinese Medicine Metal is yang within yin in character, its motion is going inwards and its energy is contracting.
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. The Relationship between the two versions of the text remains debated. [1]
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xing wu quan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the ...
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 (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.