Five elements of a star: gold

Principle of five elements of Chinese characters:

Xu Shen said in the preface of Shuowen Jiezi: "Gai Yi is a pictograph, so it is called a text; After that, the form and sound are beneficial to each other, that is, the word. The writer is the foundation of the image; The word, the words are breast-feeding and soaking more. "

It means that when Cang Xie first started to create characters, most of them were created according to the image of objects, so it was called "Wen"; Relative to each "text", plus pronunciation, it is called "word". Judging the five elements by glyphs accounts for the vast majority.

Shao Kangjie and other great Confucians made a summary, and classified the basic stroke radicals that make up a Chinese character into five elements according to their characteristics, as follows:

Golden shape: three, mouth, several, knife, ge, bi, ling, jade, stone and dish.

Wood shapes: Yi, B, E, III, Bow, Dong, He, Hu, Mu, Door, Bamboo, Melon, Boat, etc.

water shape: water, water, ear, fish, black, rain, Sichuan, cassia, sea, etc.

fire shape: fire, fire, fire, fire, red, eye, etc.

soil shape: 1. 姑, 匭, Yao, Yi, corpse, earth, Chen, ugly, Tian, Gen, etc.

When using glyphs as the criteria for judging the five elements, how to select the five elements if there are two or even three elements with radicals at the same time?

it's not difficult. if it's a Chinese character with several radicals, it depends on which of the five elements is dominant and which of the five acts is secondary. After comparing the two kinds of five elements, we can distinguish their primary and secondary elements, which can be divided into the main five elements and the secondary five elements, instead of simply taking one of them and ignoring the role of the other five elements. The method of distinguishing should not only refer to which radical the word belongs to, but also consider the actual or symbolic meaning of the word.