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Dong Zhongshu’s five elements relationship discussion and its excess of mutual generation and restraint
Author: Cui Jianjiang, Dai Chunmin
Source: “Hengshui College News” Issue 5, 2019
Time: Confucius was in the 2570 year of the year, the 25th day of the 25th month of Jihai, Jiwei
September 19, 2019
Author introduction: Cui Jianjiang (1977-), male, Wuyang from Hebei, Hengshui College, Dongzi College, lecturer, doctor of law;
Dai Chunmin (1973-), female, from Hengshui College, Hebei, lecturer, Hengshui College, Dongzi College, lecturer.
Abstract:Dong Zhongshu first created multiple forms of the five elements relationship discussion, including “five elements are in harmony”, “five elements are in harmony”, “five elements are in harmony”, “five elements are in harmony”, and “five elements are in harmony”. Just as Ye Qiuguan was still thinking, the program began to be recorded again. Many contents such as Jiabin. This kind of thinking is constantly supported, enriched and developed by later scholars. However, mutual generation and mutual restraint eventually became the mainstream pure form. Although mutual assistance ranks the main position, it is more suitable for the ethical needs of modern civil society. By comparing two forms in multiple dimensions such as evil and goodness, differences and equality, monotony and duality, biochemical and stability, fighting and unity, binding and unrestrainedness, we can obtain a conclusion that mutual and mutual assistance is more likely to be mutually generated and restrained. The forms of mutual assistance are more suitable for Confucian spirit of benevolence, Marxism, the study of human constraints, the construction of socialism and harmony with the needs of socialism and human destiny. They can handle diverse reconciliation and confusion for Chinese wisdom, which will help realize the modernization of the discussion on the five elements.
Keywords: Dong Zhongshu; Five Elements; mutual generation and mutual restraint; mutual assistance
Fund Project: The “Intermediate Value and Civilization Research Base” of the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base (16JJD720004); Hebei Provincial Social Development Research Course Topic (2019030602006)
The academic community regards mutual generation and mutual restraint as the standard for the discussion on the relationship between the five elements. In particular, Chinese medicine practitioners regard “generation and restraint” as their main theoretical basis, and propose that “the law of five elements generation, inhibition and transformation is a stable and orderly “Sister, wipe your clothes first.” The unique form”[1]. However, some students believe that: “In terms of the form of mutualism and mutualism that reminds the theory of the Five Elements, it still has the limitation of unsuccessful struggle. “[2] Some scholars proposed the topic of “promoting mutual generation, reducing mutual restraint, and human society can achieve harmonious and orderly development”[3]. Disagreement with this is that Dong Xue researchers have noticed that Dong Zhongshu first created multiple forms of the discussion on the five elements.. The “circular system of mutual generation” in the relationship between Dong Zhongshu’s five elements, and 彩彩票 and believe that: “Hong Fan only talks about the five elements, but does not talk about the relationship between them.” [5] Teacher Zhou combined Dong Zhongshu’s five elements into four key points: listing the five elements in a sequence of mutual generation; saying that the five elements are precious; using the mutual cooperation of the five elements to explain the mutual restraint of the internal powers of feudal authorities; using the mutual restraint of the five elements to fulfill the content of the heavens and man. Teacher Zhou believes that the “five elements are reversed” during the operation of the five elements, which requires the monarch to “rescue” by cultivating his own character, and then realize the feeling and interaction between heaven and man. Professor Yu Zhiping pointed out: “In the existing literature, “Year and Blossom Dew” describes the rankings, relationships, and the logic and process of deductions of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water for the first time.” [6] After confirming the traditional mutual interaction, he called the situation of “once the five elements do not operate in sequence, it will have ‘reversal’ or ‘drunk’” Dong Zhongshu’s “five elements have changes” thinking, which requires the monarch to provide corresponding “rescue” with corresponding adjustments to political affairs and moral cultivation. The author further explores the multiple forms of Dong Zhongshu’s five elements relationship discussion and highlights the actual value of each other and mutual assistance.
1. The development process of continuous enrichment of the five elements relationship
“Shang Shu·Hong Fan” proposes: “Five elements: one is water, two is fire, three is wood, four is metal, and five is earth. Water is called swelling, fire is called swelling, wood is called swelling, metal is called swelling, earth is called swelling, earth is called swelling. The swelling is made of salty, the swelling is made of bitterness, which is made of sourness, and the swelling is made of spicyness, and the swelling is made of sweetness.”[7] This lists only the five elements and their respective properties, and has not yet discussed the relationship between the five elements. The earliest relationship between the five elements was the “Five Elements Harmony” in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. When “Mandarin·Zheng·Shibou’s Discussion on the Enlightenment of Duke Huan” proposes that “harmony of real creatures, but the same is not allowed”, the five elements are used as explanation. He proposed: “For others to calm the harmony of others, we can grow and learn from things; if we use the same benefits, we will be able to abandon them. Therefore, the ancient kings used earth, metal, wood, water, fire and other things to form all things. Therefore, the five flavors are harmonious to adjust the mouth, the four branches are used to clear the body, the six laws are used to sound the ears, the seven bodies are used to control the heart, the eight ropes are used to improve people, the nine pieces are used to establish pure virtue, and the tens are used to combine to train the hundred bodies.” [8] The focus of Shi Bo’s words here is “harmony of living things”, rather than the five elements of thinking. Take earth and the other four elements as examples.
The concept of the five elements in harmony was launched in the era of war. Inclusive amount of money “Left-Biography” proposes the term “fire gold” [9]974 “water fire” [9]1078. “Guanzi·Four Times” and “Quanzi·Monthly Order” even emphasize that the five elements are “mainly” based on the four-hour change. Zheng Yan proposed the term “the end of the five virtues”. The mutual cooperation of the five elements is the force behind the change of the five elements. “The Age of the Ji Family·Youshi View·Yingtong” repeatedly proposed the terms “earth and gas strength”, “wood and gas strength”, “gold and gas strength”, “fire and gas strength”, and “water gas strength”. This order implies the idea of the mutual cooperation of the five elements, and tends to form the discussion of the relationship between the five elements.
From Dong Zhongshu, the Five Elements Discussion has been widely used in various aspects such as politics, military affairs, numerology, craziness, Chinese medicine, architecture, and nursing. The Five Elements Discussion has also gained further growth. Modern Chinese medical practitioners have constantly explored the reconciliation of the five elements relationship and proposed a series of new forms such as “mul
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