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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.
Taijitu diagram featuring the wuxing in the center (from the Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China by Chen Menglei). Wuxing originally referred to the five major planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus), which were with the combination of the Sun and the Moon, conceived as creating five forces of earthly life.
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.
Water (wuxing) Wood (wuxing) Wuxing painting This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 07:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Traditional Chinese painting inherited an attachment to rice paper and silk as well as to a certain type of paint, while wuxing has no such limitations. The single most important thing for the artist who practices wuxing painting is an attractive image harmoniously constructed using the wuxing system. Everything else is secondary, including the ...
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]
Marauding bands and encroaching tribes people threatened China in the north, while peasant revolts and invasions plagued the south. Even in Beijing, the twisting and turning machinations of those vying for power often spilled over into the scholarly realm, sometimes subjecting them to expulsion.
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.