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What is the traditional cultural knowledge related to the number five

In our traditional culture, many numbers have special meanings. And the number "five", often has some kind of auspicious meaning. For example, in the folklore there are five grains of abundance, the blessing is five of the saying. The number "five" why get auspicious symbolism, it is compared with other numbers in the end what is different? The author intends to talk about a little bit of my humble opinion, in order to teach the party. First, the number "five" often reflects the perfect existence of human beings and many things in the state of the structure of the law

The number "five" reflects the natural life form of human beings and many organisms complete, strong and beautiful structure of the law of the law of China's ancient limbs and organs of the person The ancient China will be human limbs and organs are summarized as five senses, five organs, five bodies, five fingers, five toes, five meridians and other names with the number "five". Five senses, referring to the human eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body. Five viscera, also known as five viscera or five internal, referring to the human heart, liver, stomach, intestines, lungs. Five meridians, according to "Suwen - meridians and veins," "the water essence of the four cloth, five meridians and coexist." It refers to the meridians of the five organs. The human hand has five fingers, feet have five toes, head and limbs are called five bodies. Similar to humans, in nature, many organisms or their organs are pentagonal in natural form. Such as a variety of plant flowers were five petals bloom; five convergence of the berry, there are five prongs; starfish for the pentagonal; the ancient name for the dragon crocodile toe for the five toes. The limbs or organs of all living organisms are objective natural generation of a certain state of existence. These life forms are important to the survival and development of each organism. For human beings and many creatures, their limbs or organs with the number "five", often sound, beautiful; not in five, often crippled, ugly