• These four types of Earth are Earth-of-water (Wet/Cold Earth), Earth-of-Fire (Arid/Hot Earth), Earth-of-Metal (Dry/Hard Earth) and Earth-of-Wood (Loose-Fertile/Warm...
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    Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese...
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  • matter's dying or hiding stage. Water is the fifth of the five elements of wuxing. Among the five elements, water is the most yin in character. Its motion...
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  • the regenerative cycle of the Wu Xing, earth engenders Metal as "all metal has to be extracted from the earth in which it resides"; Metal begets water...
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    philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the...
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  • fueled by burning wood; Fire begets earth as "fire reduces everything to ashes, which become a part of the earth again". In the restraining or in excess...
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  • Moon (though without Earth soil's organic components) Martian soil, the fine regolith found on the surface of Mars Earth (wuxing), an element in Chinese...
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  • nourishes fire with the flow of oxygen. In the conquest cycle: Wood overcomes earth by binding it together with the roots of trees and drawing sustenance from...
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  • Wuxing painting is a style of Chinese painting that draws inspiration from the philosophical concept of the "five phases/elements" (wuxing). Specifically...
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    First or prime matter Qi – Vital force in traditional Chinese philosophy Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) – Chinese five elements Thera (1956), pp. 318–320:...
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    Radical 32 (redirect from Earth radical)
    indexing component 土 in mainland China. In the Chinese wuxing ("Five Phases"), 土 represents the element earth. Oracle bone script character Bronze script character...
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    Color in Chinese culture (category Wuxing (Chinese philosophy))
    these correspond to water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which comprise the 'five elements' (wuxing) of traditional Chinese metaphysics. Throughout the...
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    wǔxíng, also known as the "five elements", or "phases": the "Five Phases" being Fire (火 huǒ), Water (水 shuǐ), Wood (木 mù), Metal (金 jīn), and Earth (土...
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    because it is the color of the earth (Dì 地), the material substance in which he incarnated. The Yellow Dragon is a part of Wuxing and the Four Symbols as the...
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  • religions. The Japanese Buddhist concept of gogyo, which stems from Chinese wuxing, is distinguishable from godai by the fact that the functional phases of...
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    Houtu (redirect from Earth Queen)
    mountains of Earth. She is also the assistant god to one of the Great Five Emperors, the Huang Di, being the god of the Earth element in Wuxing system. In...
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    correlated with one of the five elements (earth, metal, water, wood and fire), hence Shao Qi Pai is also called wuxing tongbeiquan ("Five Elements tongbeiquan")...
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    mythological creatures have also been syncretized into the Five Phases system (Wuxing). The Azure Dragon of the East represents Wood, the Vermilion Bird of the...
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    Rabbit is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 卯. the element Wood in Wuxing theory and within Traditional Chinese medicine the Liver Yin and the emotions...
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    cultures, Mars is traditionally referred to as the "fire star" based on the Wuxing system. During the seventeenth century A.D., Tycho Brahe measured the diurnal...
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    crane, the tiger, the monkey, the snake, and the mantis. In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements"...
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    the Chinese philosophies of yin and yang and wuxing (five elements) The philosophy of yin and yang and wuxing was introduced to Japan at the beginning of...
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    Another interpretation of the River Diagram has to do with the 5 elements (wuxing) and the 5 Asian cardinal directions. Anyway, according to James Legge the...
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    change. The five phases are: Fire (火 huǒ), Earth (土 tǔ), Metal (金 jīn), Water (水 shuǐ), and Wood (木 mù). The Wuxing is the fundamental philosophy and doctrine...
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    systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Wuxing or the great chain of being. In Zoroastrian Cosmology, universe is the manifestation...
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  • of the sky Water (classical element) Water (wuxing) Water (Lexx), a fictional planet The Water (Middle-earth), a fictional river Water (1985 film), a British...
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  • with Tibetan language thub "a mighty one, one having power and authority". Wuxing heqidao (五行合气道), Gogyo Aikido in Japanese, has its roots in Confucian, Taoist...
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  • Each zang is paired with a fu, and each pair is assigned to one of the wuxing. The zangfu are also connected to the twelve standard meridians – each yang...
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    and the union of the yin, the 4 directions then the 5 phases (wuxing) of water, fire, earth and then wood, metal are produced. These 5 phases become diffused...
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  • fallen dynasty Yu San as Meihua Yishu (Plum Blossom) Wang Yijun as Kuanglan Wuxing (Orchid) Fang Yilun as Liu Yan (柳眼), former third disciple brother of Zhoudi...
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