How are the five elements divided in authentic traditional naming?

The following five-line division method is taken from the book Authentic Traditional Numerology named by Mr. Zhou Yinchan.

How to divide the five elements of Chinese characters in China?

Because Chinese characters in China are pictographs and ideographs, they can be divided into different parts according to their shapes and meanings. five elements

1, intuitive method

In other words, what you see directly, such as the word "water three points" belongs to water, the word "wood" belongs to wood and the word "fire" belongs to fire. This is the simplest.

2. What are the five elements attributes determined by direction?

For example, oriental genus wood, all the words related to oriental genus wood, such as Chen, frozen and Dong. South? Belongs to the fire, and the characters related to Nanzi have it? With fire properties, such as Nan, Yi, etc.

3. Five-element attribute determined by color

From the perspective of color and orientation, it also corresponds to the five elements, and there are five colors and five positions. Think? Is it water black (north), wood green (east) and fire? It is red (south), yellow (middle) and metallic white (west). Similarly, what is relevant? Words with radicals or parts have the same five elements. Like black water, ink? It also belongs to water, and silence also belongs to water. Green belongs to wood, quiet, inviting, affectionate, pure and refined. Another drink? In this case, for example, red belongs to fire, red is synonymous with fire, and purple belongs to fire. And so on.

4. Determine the attributes of five elements by season.

As I said before, four squares correspond to four seasons, and of course they also correspond to four fives? All right. The east belongs to wood in spring, the south belongs to fire in summer, the west belongs to gold in autumn, and the north belongs to water in winter. So what? There are five elements in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Similarly, all four-word words of spring, summer, autumn and winter have "and"? Associated with the attributes of the five elements, such as summer fire, house fire ... and so on.

5. hieroglyphics

Chinese characters in China are mainly pictographs, so we can divide the attributes of the five elements according to their shapes. Like what? But the four points below the word are the flames of painting, so the word is fire. What are the four dots under the word? Everything that is ignited belongs to fire. Point, light, heat and happiness are all the same. And so on.

Step 6 know

Understanding is one of the word-formation methods of Chinese characters in China. We don't talk about word formation, only about word meaning. And discus that related division method of five element.

We divide the attributes of the five elements by the basic meaning of words. For example, the knife belongs to gold, so does the vertical knife, and the characters with vertical knives belong to gold. Even Ge (ancient weapon), which represents metal, belongs to gold. Or? Ding, Zun and axe are all made of gold, and so on.

The division principles of the above directions, colors, seasons, etc. are all related to the river map.

7. Judge the five elements of a word by heavenly stems and earthly branches.

As we said, according to the Taiji diagram, heavenly stems and earthly branches has the attributes of natural yin and yang and five elements. By who? All words with heavenly stems and earthly branches have the same five-element attribute at the same time. For example, the word "art" belongs to wood because it contains "B", so it has the attribute of five elements belonging to wood. etc

8. Divide five elements by gossip.

The Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes have a directional order, so they also have five elements of attributes, such as dry? Hexagrams, in the northwest (all hexagrams are acquired gossip), are white and belong to gold. All with hexagrams? Words related to names all have the same five-element attribute. For example, the original meaning of this word is? Thinking has no five-element attribute, but because it is a divinatory name, it has five-element attribute of divinatory gold, so in the same way, all words with redemption belong to gold. Pleasure, speech, taxes are all gold, and so on.

What principles should be followed in the division of five elements of Chinese characters?

1. There is more than one word, and everyone who owns it counts.

In reality, dividing the five elements of Chinese characters will encounter a word, which belongs to several five elements at the same time. Than? For example, the word "virtue" can be divided into ten, four, one, heart (heart has no attribute) and five elements. Especially ten is earth, four is gold, one is water, and the heart is earth. There are two dirt in a German word, one? One gold and one water, that is to say, these five elements are counted, and the word German belongs to metal soil and water. Any classmates? I asked, how to use so many attributes? This is the next principle.

2. The principle of giving up if you are afraid

This sentence means that the eight characters (children's lives) are afraid of one of the five elements. What is this word? You have to give up, and you can't use it anymore.

3. The principle that all characters are separated into characters.

Monographs can be divided appropriately, but they should all be written separately. For example: orthography, ok? Disassemble into one, stop, and one with five elements, belonging to water. There are no five elements, but there are yin and yang genera? Sex is yin. So orthography belongs to water. However, the word "in" cannot be removed. Can it be removed? Come out, the rest won't work if you don't pronounce words.

4. The principle of paying equal attention to ancient and modern times.

China is the only country in the world where the culture has not been interrupted, and the written language has gradually evolved? Cheng, in the process of evolution, the characters are also changing, so most of China's characters are one word? Multibody. When a word is written in many ways, there will be multiple five lines. No matter how you write it, the five elements it represents count.

5. The principle of taking the ancient as the standard when the ancient and modern characters conflict with the five elements.

Any word, when there is a conflict between ancient and modern words and five elements, the ancient should prevail? Calculate the five elements of a generation. For example, the word spirit, the ancient word spirit, originally meant a wizard standing? Begging for rain before the incense table, modern characters belong to fire, and ancient characters belong to water. But begging for rain is the foundation? Righteousness, so according to ancient times, the word spirit belongs to water. There are no five elements of water. And so on.

Note: One kind of five elements is hidden, that is to say, you can't understand them without profound common sense. Take Zezi as an example. According to the previous principle, most people belong to water, that's right. But in the gossip, what is exchanged is Ze, what is exchanged is Zheng, and it belongs to gold, so Ze also has hidden five elements of gold. On the one hand, the word "truth" belongs to wood except water. Because divination is due east.

There is another situation of hiding the five elements. The word list is one or more five lines. There is another hidden five-line meaning. For example, the word right, on the surface, is divided according to the previous original work? Then ownership is wood. But the original intention of power refers to the ancient weight, so the word power also has a hidden five? Okay, gold. If a child is short of wood, but afraid of gold, this pair of words must be given up and never used. ) Word splitting should be moderate, and orthography can only be divided into "one" and "stop". Can't you do it all? Dissolve this department. Monographs can only be disassembled once, but not many times and in many directions, such as Wang Zi, only? Disassemble into a, earth. Can not be disassembled into one, soil, dry, three, ten, two repetitions. The order of disassembly is the order of writing. And so on.