Originally, I wanted to name this blog "5 Elements"; however the name was taken leaving only Wu Xing, the Chinese translation, available. This traditional concept of the 5 elements has been embedded deeply in the Chinese teaching, culture, medicine, philosophy, arts and more.
Wu Xing is a traditional Chinese philosophy which stated that natural phenomenon can be characterized into 5 elements: water, wood, fire, earth and metal. Also known as 5 phases, 5 movements, 5 steps.
The harmonious existent of these five elements are what gives the stability to any given system. The system could be any physical or abstract object. In the domain of medicine, the harmonious states between five elements determine the person health. From traditional Chinese medicine, sickness is the result of imbalance within the body of one or more of the elements. Bringing the body back to balance, relieve the excess of the domain elements and reinforce the depleted elements are the key to traditional Chinese medicine treatments.
It is the techniques and the arts of observing all natural phenomenons and behaviors in the frame of the five elements that helps us to characterize any system; from food, personality, geography, martial arts and flavors.... Given this new perspective, we can look at the world differently than the way most people are perceiving. Nature are cyclical, sustainable only in the boundary of harmonious states, artificial manipulation can bring the system out of balance which often results in dramatic restoration to the balanced state.
Wiki page that gives a good summarized concept of 5 elements
For the past few years, I have been paying more attentions in observing the existent of the five elements characteristics within the food that we ate, the personality of each person that I know and understanding the dynamic interaction between the elements to better explain the natural phenomonons. I'll elaborate on the next post.
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