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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 ...
Bagua. The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another. Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang ...
t. e. 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.
Nine Star Ki (Japanese: 九星気学, Chinese: 九宫命理 or 九星命理) is a popular system of astrology, often used alongside Feng shui. [1][2][3][4][5] It is an adjustment or consolidation, [6] made in 1924 by Shinjiro Sonoda (1876–1961), to traditional Chinese divination and geomancy methods, such as Flying Star Feng Shui, the Ming ...
In Chinese philosophy, wood (Chinese: 木; pinyin: mù), sometimes translated as Tree, [1] is the growing of the matter, or the matter's growing expanding stage. [2] Wood is the first phase of Wu Xing when observing or discussing movement or growth. Wood is the lesser yang character (yin within yang) of the Five elements, fuelling Fire.
Wuxing painting is a style of Chinese painting that draws inspiration from the philosophical concept of the "five phases/elements" ( wuxing ). Specifically, it combines the use of Chinese freehand brush work techniques and the metaphysics of the five wuxing elements. [1] Wuxing painting also inherited some traits from several wushu and qigong ...
Chinese alchemy is a historical Chinese approach to alchemy, a pseudoscience. According to original texts such as the Cantong qi , the body is understood as the focus of cosmological processes summarized in the five agents of change, or Wuxing , the observation and cultivation of which leads the practitioner into alignment and harmony with the ...
e. In Chinese philosophy, earth or soil (Chinese: 土; pinyin: tǔ) Earth is the balance of both yin and yang in the Wuxing philosophy. Its motion is centralising, and its energy is stabilizing and conserving. It is associated with the colour yellow or ochre and the planet Saturn, and it lies at the centre of the four directions of the compass ...