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In China, the earliest record of the Five Elements Theory should be the Book of Shang. Let's talk about the mystical theory of the five elements today.
The Five Elements Theory has a powerful theoretical system, which is simply the five natural elements for the "five elements". They are: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
These five natural elements are mutually reinforcing, namely: jinsheng water, aquatic wood, wood and earth, and native gold; jinkemu, muketu, tukeshui, water and fire, and fire.
The principle of the five elements is that they are born in phases, cycles, and endless life.
Corresponding to the five elements, it produces five squares, five seasons, five colors, five tones, and five tastes.
Five squares refers to five directions, east, south, west, north and middle;
Five seasons are five seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter and long summer;
The five colors refer to white, blue, black, red and yellow;
Five tones refer to the palace, shang, horn, sign, feather;
Five flavors, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty;
Five organs, heart, liver, spleen, stomach, lungs.
In short, in the philosophical system of our ancestors, everything in the world can be applied to the five elements theory, including the change of dynasties.
The theory of the five elements of the dynasty– the five virtues of the end – was put forward by Mr. Zou Yanlao of the Han Dynasty. This sounds very unreliable, with a strong feudal superstition, of course, the feudal dynasty, must be inextricably linked to feudal superstition.
Today we want to face these things squarely from a scientific perspective. But when you look closely, there is some truth in it.
Since Mr. Zou is a Han Dynasty person, let's first analyze these five virtues from the Han Dynasty.
As early as the Han Gaozu period, because Liu Bang claimed to be the son of the Red Emperor when he was juxin during the anti-Qin uprising, red is red, and the fire in the five elements corresponding to red has become the officially recognized version of the Han Dynasty's main fire virtue theory in the early days of the founding of the Han Dynasty. Red has become the representative color of the country. At that time, the flags of the Han army were all red, which could be described as a red ocean.
However, according to mr. Zou's five virtues final study, this is a problem, why? Because the former dynasty, that is, the Qin Dynasty, was started by water virtue. The qin state rose in the western region of China, according to the five parties in the five elements theory, the corresponding five elements of the west are water, in the five elements, the color representing water is black, so the Qin people are still black.
The flags of the Qin Army are dressed in black as the main color. Moreover, before Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, it was the Zhou that was extinguished first, the Five Elements of the Zhou Dynasty was the main fire virtue, and qin extinguished the Zhou instead of water and fire. The principle of the five elements makes sense.
Then, after the Han Dynasty And Qin unified the world, according to the Five Virtues Theory, it should be based on Tuke water, so in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court felt that the previous statement was "unscientific", so it changed the fire virtue to Tude, and the national color was changed from red to yellow.
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, successive dynasties have also regularly formulated the national color of the dynasty in accordance with the Five Virtues.
If we look at the dynastic changes in our country according to the theory of the Five Elements Theory, it is a very good explanation.
History continued to move forward, and during the Post-Han Three Kingdoms period, the local boss Yuan Shu took up the idea of grabbing power and doing ideological mobilization against his subordinates, saying: "Use soil to bear fire and respond to its luck."
Yuan Shu claimed to be a descendant of Shun, tude, and the Han lord Huode could take his place.
Obviously, The knowledge of the five elements of Boss Yuan was not solid enough, one was that he did not understand the details of his owner's family, and the other was that he did not understand the principle of the five elements living and fighting each other, so in the end he was mixed up with the fate of a soldier who was defeated and killed. No culture is really terrible!
Later, the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, and jin was the lord of Jinde. It is also reasonable to analyze it carefully, because the principle of the five elements is: native gold, and from the perspective of legitimacy, the baton of this regime is equivalent to passing from Han to Jin.
During the two Jin Dynasties and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the country was in a state of division for a long time, and the five northern ethnic groups successively established sixteen local governments in northern China, and even the repetition of country names could be distinguished by the southeast, southwest, northwest, front, back, and left and right.
Of course, the culture of ethnic minorities in the north is relatively backward, and in the case that Chinese characters have not yet been recognized, let alone the Five Elements Theory.
The next great unified dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, came to power, although it was a short-lived dynasty, but it did not delay the people to determine their own five elements, and there is a version that says that the Sui Dynasty is the main water virtue. This theory comes from the fact that the Sui Emperor excavated the Grand Canal, so it is said that the Sui Lord Shui De. Then why don't you say that the Emperor is absurd and watery Yang Hua?
Don't worry, let's go on, the next to play is Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty lord Tude, Tang Annihilation Sui, is exactly the right way to take the water of The Tuke, and this is not the end of it.
The Five Elements Theory corresponds to the yellow color of the earth, so since the Tang Dynasty, yellow has become the legal royal color, and officials and people are strictly forbidden to use yellow.
In the history since then, we can see that most of the emperors wore yellow robes.
After the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the feudal towns were divided, which in turn formed a situation of five generations and ten kingdoms. It was not until the Song Dynasty that the world was one again.
Regarding he de, the lord of the five elements of the Song Dynasty, there are currently two theories. First of all, literally, the word "Song" has "wood", so it should be the main wood. However, there is a sentence in the "Three Character Classic", a traditional teaching book in China's history, "Yan Song Xing, Zhou Zen."
This "Yan" word refers to the Song Dynasty's main fire. Historically, the emperors of the Song Dynasty often wore red heavenly crown costumes. The army flag is also mostly red, so according to this, it is judged that Song Ying is the main fire.
However, people with a little historical knowledge should also understand that the liao state built by the Khitan and the northern neighbor and sworn enemy of the two Song dynasties at that time was interpreted as the meaning of iron, and the other said that its clan was born on the edge of the Liaoshui River. It is uncertain whether the main Jinde or Shuide is concerned, but as far as the cultural heritage of the ethnic minorities in the north is concerned, people may not believe in the theory of the Five Elements Theory.
In that era of speaking by force, strong soldiers and strong horses were the last word. Later, Liao was destroyed by the Jin kingdom built by the Jurchens, and the Jin state was literally understood to be the lord Jinde, the Jin Kemu in the five elements, and in the Song-Liao War or the Song-Jin War, the Song was not taken advantage of at all. The Northern Song Dynasty also died at the hands of the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, what exactly is the lord of the five elements of the Song Dynasty still needs to be carefully examined.
Then Mengyuan destroyed the Jin, Western Xia, and Southern Song Dynasties one by one, and this people on horseback did not believe in the Five Elements Doctrine, but only believed in the sword in their hands.
After occupying the Central Plains, the Mongols followed the customs and gave their regime a name according to the Zhou Yi, Yuan, and thus brought their regime into the theoretical system of the Five Elements Doctrine, the Yuan Lord Jinde. The Mongols are still white. The gold in the five elements corresponds to white.
Then, Ming extinguishes the yuan. Because the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang raised troops in the south, the south of the Five Elements is the direction of fire, and because its surname is Zhu, Zhu is red, and red is the representative color of fire, and it also has the meaning of fire and gold. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was the main fire.
Feng Shui took turns, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Taizu Nurhaci raised an army with thirteen pairs of armor to establish the Houjin regime, fighting against the Ming Dynasty, and before the revolution was successful, he was ordered to be sent to Yuan Chonghuan under the Hongyi cannon of the general Yuan Chonghuan.
After Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty took over, he was more of a chicken thief and felt that he could not solve the problem by using force with Daming, so he changed to playing the cultural card. Simply change the name of the country from Houjin to Qing, and change the name of the clan from Jurchen to Manchuria.
Why such a change? You see, the word "Qing" has water, and the word "Manchuria" also has water, so I want to use water to extinguish the fire, and I want to extinguish the fire with water, and I want to destroy Daming in the Fadi.
But in the end, Daming was destroyed at the hands of Li Zicheng. It is estimated that at that time, Da Shun Tianzi was busy grabbing money, grain, and women, and he did not care about the virtue of the Five Elements of Da Shun (anyway, it was quite lacking in morality), and finally let Man Qing pick up the cheap.
Well, today's sharing ends here, and we'll see you next time