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Well, I admit that knowing these five words is indeed only at the level of the first grade of primary school, but it is these simple words, which are commonly called the "five elements", that the depth can reach the point of encompassing everything!

But because it is too abstract and mysterious, it is difficult for people to understand it as easily as their ancestors after thousands of years. By the 80s, in addition to Feng Shui and Chinese medicine, it was rarely used, which has to be said to be a pity.

In fact, it is an understanding of the world made by the ancients, that is, the world is composed of these five basic elements, and these five elements are interconnected and interact with each other.

To say that it is composed does not refer only to the literal five things of "water, wood, fire, earth, and metal" themselves, but to say that they represent the five natures.

Water is fluid, changeable, and inclusive; Wood is upward, vibrant, and stripped; The fire is warm, blazing, and swift; The soil is steady, fixed, and collectible; Gold is sharp, cold, and ethereal......

Coming up with these adjectives really tired me enough, so it's really simple and close to these five words to sum it up, it's 0, and at the same time it's an indisputable 100!

And the relationship between them is also divided into two types:

The first is the mutual restraint relationship, with a total of five pairs. It is the meaning that one element is superior to another element and can usually "control" the other element.

Jin Kemu, very well understood, things made of metal, knives, axes, etc., can split wood and other wood-related things, so that the gold element is in a strong position relative to wood;

Muketu means that plants such as trees can hold the soil, and now it is always said that soil erosion is caused by excessive logging, which is the best embodiment of this relationship;

The biggest special thing about water is fluidity and uncertainty, and once the earth element is added, its natural stagnation can make the water not flow in vain. I've always felt that perhaps the commonly used word, "and muddy", has something to do with this principle.

Water overcomes fire, this three-year-old child knows it, so there is nothing to say.

Turning around, when it comes to fire and gold, it is also easy to say that it means that fire can melt metal.

To put it simply, the relationship between Xiang Ke is these meanings, and it can be seen that my explanations are very long, far less refined than the three words X and X, which is the intention of the ancients to create these concepts! The simpler it is, the less misinformation it is.

After talking about the relationship of mutual restraint, we have to mention the relationship of mutual birth, which means that one element will "promote" the development of another element, and there are also five pairs of relationships.

Another interesting discussion here is the question of where the symbiotic relationship of the five elements begins.

Maybe people who are idle and bored have been arguing for a long time, but I think it's water, of course.

It's very simple, there was a time on this planet, and it was a completely ocean, wasn't it? At that time, not to mention that there were no people, not even animals and plants, it seemed to be worthless in a piece of nothingness, but later everything was born, which has to be said to be a great miracle! Scientists also start to explore life in outer space by looking for water, precisely because everything originally came from the ocean, from "water".

After the first water, this is how it developed:

Aquatic wood, this wood cannot be simply understood as a plant, I think first of all it describes a kind of vitality. It is said that the first single-celled algae to grow in the sea were single-celled, but what led to the emergence of the first algae in the world? Such an annoying "egg-and-chicken" problem, leave it to you to study slowly.

Wood fire, after the plant is born, it is not just a simple life in the harsh environment, they are constantly swallowing carbon dioxide in the air, constantly converting into oxygen, and the ratio of these two gases directly leads to the change of the composition of the sun's energy received by the earth, and it may take hundreds of millions of years for the temperature to be adjusted to the appropriate level for more life to survive.

Because of the change of temperature, under the multiple actions of air currents, water currents and life, the land begins to constantly rise and change, constantly changing the proportional relationship with the ocean. In addition to the surface of the earth, the temperature of the interior of the earth is also constantly changing, and from time to time there are earthquakes, tsunamis, and the like, and our land has become what it is now.

Native gold, where gold is not only a metal, but also refers to a distinctive property, referring to the diversity of matter. Although the ocean can also give birth to many things, the emergence of the land obviously provides more options for the process of this species explosion, and of course this transformation is also full of challenges, so there are some animals that have no life and go into the water after coming ashore. Success is also land, defeat is also land, so it can be simply said that the ocean is the mother of life, and the land is, the stepmother of life......

The last process, the production of water from gold, can be a little difficult to understand, as it refers to the fact that gold is not only the metal buried in the soil, but also the atmospheric circulation system, which constantly carries water out of the ocean and back to the land. One of the perfect fits here is that our ground is also undulating, and if it weren't for that, there would be no fresh water on land, which is the main condition for living things to live on the ground. Without this step, we might be living in the sea all the time like a mermaid!

Of course, things don't end here, but they are constantly cyclical, so I think the mechanism of mutual birth is more interesting than the mechanism of mutual restraint, after all, it is the basis of all existence.

What's even more interesting is that the above mutual restraint system also exists in the human body, and it is more meaningful and interesting, it is no exaggeration to say that if you don't know this, you can't say that you already know who you are!

If you want to ask why I, a semi-literate person, would know this, I still have to thank Master Li, for a naughty boy like me who wants to sleep when the topic is a little boring, if he doesn't have a level of talking about these metaphysical things, he really can talk about chickens and ducks, play the piano to cows, and light lamps for blind people—in vain.

It is precisely because these things are as familiar as flowing in my blood, and now that I see them in ancient books, I am very excited, but unfortunately seeing Bai Jue's attentive appearance, I am not too embarrassed to disturb him, so I can't take advantage of this heated discussion.

I was stretching my neck to read it, and he turned a page, and a picture suddenly caught my attention!

This picture is to arrange the five elements in a circle according to the relationship between each other, but a line is connected between water and fire, and a small character is written next to it, at first glance it is a "thunder" character, but there are two more Tian characters below.

It was as if a flash of lightning flashed directly in my head, and then it rumbled!

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