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Why are five of the eight planets named after "Jin Mu Fire, Water and Earth", which happens to be the five elements of China?

Jin Mu's water, fire and earth are the five basic elements that make up everything in the world. Since Fuxi opened human culture by creating Yin-Yang Taiji Eight Diagrams in ancient times, people began to understand the importance of water, fire and earth in Jin Mu's five elements.

After Fuxi painted eight diagrams, in order to correspond the sun, the moon and the stars with the eight diagrams of Taiji, he began to look up at the sky and see the running rules of the sun, the moon and the stars, thus forming astronomy and astrology. Later, in the continuous exploration of astronomical phenomena, people found that there are five big stars in the sky that are constantly running according to their own operating rules, so they are called five planets.

Because of the different colors of light emitted by the five planets, one of them is silver-white phosgene, so people think it is the star that dominates the universe, so it is called Venus.

One of them is bright green phosgene, which is similar to the color of leaves of trees in the world. People think that this is the star that dominates the wood gas in the universe, so it is called Jupiter. One of them emits black and blue phosgene, similar to the color of water in the world. People think that this is the star that dominates water vapor in the universe, so it is called Mercury.

One of the stars is red, similar to the color of fire in the world. People think that this is the star that dominates the fire in the universe, so it is called Mars. One of the stars is yellow, similar to the color of loess in the world. People think that this is the star that dominates the rural atmosphere in the universe, so it is called Saturn.

Because these five planets twinkle with five stars, Jin Mu, fire, water and earth, which dominate all things in the universe, later all parties directly refer to the five planets in Jin Mu, that is, the five elements, based on these five stars, for the convenience of proportion and daily use.

Knowing the origin of the five planets, we should know that the five elements we are talking about are measured by five planetary columns in the sky, instead of the five planets just corresponding to the five elements of China.