Five Elements

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) 1 The 'Wu Xing', (wiktionary: 五 | 五 wiktionary: 行 | 行 wŭ xíng) also known as the 'Five Elements', 'Five Phases', the 'Five Agents', the 'Five Movements', 'Five Processes', and the 'Five Steps/Stages', is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between Zang-fu|internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the Chinese herbology|properties of medicinal drugs

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) 1 Wu Xing is often translated as 'Five Elements' and this is used extensively by many including practitioners of Five Element acupuncture

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) 1 Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun ( 五運 wŭ yùn) or a combination of the two characters (Wu Xing-Yun) these emphasise the correspondence of five elements to five 'seasons' (four seasons plus one)

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) - The Elements 1 The five elements are usually used to describe the state in nature:

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) - Cosmology and feng shui 1 Associated with these phases are colors, seasons and shapes; all of which are interacting with each other.[ com/new/docs/FiveElementsChart.xls Chinese Five Elements Chart] Information on the Chinese Five Elements from Northern Shaolin Academy in Microsoft Excel 2003 Format

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) - Chinese medicine 1 The sequence of the five elements (Traditional Chinese medicine) ： promotion, inhibition, Cheng (bullying), Wu (insult).[ content/uploads/2008/10/lj_31.jpg promotion]

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) - Martial arts 1 T'ai chi ch'uan uses the five elements to designate different directions, positions or footwork patterns. Either forward, backward, left, right and centre, or three steps forward (attack) and two steps back (retreat).

Five elements (Chinese philosophy) - Martial arts 1 Xingyiquan uses the five elements metaphorically to represent five different states of combat.

Color in Chinese culture - Theory of the Five Elements 1 In traditional Chinese art and culture, black, red, #Qing|qing (a conflation of the idea of green and blue sometimes called Distinguishing blue from green in language|grue), white and yellow are viewed as standard colors. These colors correspond to the five elements of water, fire, wood, metal and earth, taught in traditional Chinese physics. Throughout the Shang, Tang, Zhou and Qin dynasties, China’s emperors used the Wu Xing|Theory of the Five Elements to select colors.

Zang-fu - Yin/yang and the Five Elements 1 The zàng-fǔ share their respective element's allocations (e.g., regarding colour, taste, season, emotion etc.) and interact with each other cyclically in the same way the Five Elements do: each zàng organ has one corresponding zàng organ that it enfeebles, and one that it reinforces

Zang-fu - Yin/yang and the Five Elements 1 The correspondence between zàng-fǔ and Five Elements are stipulated as:

Five elements (Japanese philosophy) 1 The 'five elements' philosophy in Japanese Buddhism,, is derived from Indian Vastu shastra philosophy and Buddhist beliefs. It is perhaps best known in the Western world for its use in Miyamoto Musashi's famous text Gorin-no- sho (The Book of Five Rings), in which he explains different aspects of swordsmanship by assigning each aspect to an element.

Five elements (Japanese philosophy) - Representations of the Godai 1 Japanese Tōrō|stone lanterns as seen in Zen gardens and Buddhist temples in Japan|Buddhist temples have five divisions which represent the five elements, although the five segments can be hard to discern

Five elements (Japanese philosophy) - Representations of the Godai 1 Another common symbol of the five elements is the gorintō, a stone tower of modest size used mainly in Buddhist temples and cemeteries. It is composed from bottom to top of a cube, a sphere, a triangle, a crescent and something resembling a lotus flower, shapes that also have the meaning described above.

List of characters from Kung Fu Panda - The Five Elements Imposters 1 It was foretold that the Five Elements would one day take physical forms and become the ultimate protectors of the world

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