![]() Each element excessivley restrains another beyond the normal extend. ![]() The grandparent element provides too much control over the grandchild and weakens the element. The overacting (overwhelming) cycle (cheng) is an inbalance within the ke cycle, while following the ke cycle's direction. ![]() The controlling or destructing cycle: one element surpresses, controls, dominates, overcomes, weakens another element, preventing it from establishing its power.Ī metalic knife can cut wood into pieces, hence controlling the shape of wood (though not destroying the chi energy)Įarth can soak up Water, blocking its flow. Grandparent - Grandchild relationship: the controlling cycle provides for a check and balance system among all of the elements. The controling (destructing) cycle (剋,克 kè) The Controlling, Destructing or Inter-restraining (剋,克 kè) and the Weakening (侮, wǔ) Cycle Water is the supporting element of Wood. Metal is the supporting element of Water. Earth is the supporting element of Metal. Fire is the supporting element of Earth. Wood is the supporting element of Fire. Generating: Wood feeds Fire - Fire creates Earth (ash) - Earth bears Metal - Metal (trace elements) collects, enrich Water - Water nourishes Wood The Generating Cycle: one element (serving as parent) enriches, nourishes, strengthens, promotes growth and development of the following element (serving as child). The Generating, Inter-promoting or Enhancing Cycle (生 shēng) ("The East generates wind, wind generates wood, wood generates sour, sour generates liver, liver generates tendons.".) ![]() Not only time changes things, but since everything changes within itself anyway, the ‘Theory of the Five Element’ is simply an observation of natural, creative changes and it is the natural world confirming that all forces and energies in nature can be in constant smooth and harmonious transition from one phase to another - just as one season 'becomes' the next.Įach existing material, combined of parts of the Five Elements, shows a pre- domination of one of the Five Elements and is assigned an abstract generalization, hence can be classified accordingly.Īssociations were later made with the human body and its organs and senses, colours, biota, foods etc. This interactive process is being constantly repeated, hence forming a never ending, though balanced circle. The ‘generating’ or ‘controlling’ element is building up the energy to its own peak, before the decline starts again. The basic substances of the material world according to the ‘Theory of the Five Elements’ are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.Īll material things are made of a single or a combination of the Five Elements, since these are the fundamental components.Īll Five Elements are equally important and should form a balance, while being in constant move and cyclical change (phases).Įach phase’s peak already consists of its decline, then forwarding the prior received/ gathered (chi) energy from one element to the following element. Water - contemplation, calmness, (re-)consideration, observation, reflection Wood - rising, development (of an action), impulse, expansion, decampmentįire - embodiement, definition, action, dynamic phase, designĮarth - alteration, transformation, transmutation, change, convertation In this sense, Wood is not only the actual wood of a tree as defined by the substance, but describes the character, the dynamic state, the elemental force of the element. Taoism theories use symbols to describe phenomens of reality, hence each of the Five Elements represent an aspect of a dynamic process, a processe's phases of change. The Theory of the Five Elements describes the interaction and relation between Yin and Yang, between phenomena. Maybe the Taoistic theory of the Five Elements can be seen as a further, more refined step to understand and categorize or analyse the Yin-Yang philosophy. _ Five Elements or the Five States of Change The Theory of the Five Elements - Wu Xing (Chinese: 五行 pinyin: wǔxíng), often shortened to Five Elements, is the concept in Chinese philosophy conceiving the world as dynamic states, or phases, of constant change. Home Earth Continents Asia Thailand / China Chinese New Year Photos Chinese Customs and Traditions Glossary Five Elements Five Elements Chart
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