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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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. It stands for springtime , the east , the planet Jupiter , the color green , windy weather, and the Azure Dragon (Qing Long) in Four Symbols .
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xing wu quan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the ...
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.
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.