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What does the green amulet stacked in a triangle represent

Amulet: is a symbol that can drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters. Its composition in a variety of ways, there are a variety of materials made of three-dimensional phenomena such as clay sculpture, wood carving of the Buddha and gods, but also painted on paper in a variety of drawings, characters and so on, and even more due to some accidental and mysterious events and the people commonly known as plants, trees, flowers, animals and so on. In short, there are many kinds of amulets in various forms, but they have one **** in common, which is to serve as a kind of message sign to warn the evil spirits not to come to harm the wearer of the amulet. Therefore, anything with this function has the nature of an amulet, and when people use it as a spiritual talisman to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, it becomes an amulet. Amulets are closely associated with some folk customs and folk taboos, and you can learn about folk customs and taboos through amulets, and familiarize yourself with the knowledge of folk customs and taboos to understand amulets more clearly.

The amulet in the eight trigrams if from the outside to the inside is the West for the Sundance, East for the Tui, Northeast for the Zhen, Southwest for the Burgundy, the remaining four trigrams from the inside of the appearance of all the same. Therefore, the order of the eight trigrams in the amulet, no matter from the internal appearance, are in the famous sequential order of the heavens are different, relatively speaking, slightly closer to the so-called Wenwang Bagua direction. With the main difference between the eight trigrams of the King of Wen orientation in the Kun Gua, Xun Gua and Zhen Gua, the amulet will be Xun Gua placed in the east, seems to match the five elements in the figure, because Xun Gua symbolizes wind, wood, and amulets in the east painted trees. Another amulet in the arrangement of the eight trigrams is characterized by two opposite trigrams correspond to each other, that is, away from the Kan, Xun and Tui, Zhen and Burgundy, Qian and Kun. So it seems that the amulet in the eight trigrams of the order is its own meaning, rather than a random arrangement.

The amulet is painted with volcano, trees, knives and water patterns on each of the four sides of the amulet, symbolizing fire, wood, gold and water respectively, with earth in the center. The orientation of the five elements is consistent with the traditional Chinese five elements orientation. The saying of five elements was first seen in <Shangshu-Hongfan> (for the author of the book, the era of many different opinions), is considered to be one of the core of traditional Chinese culture. The five elements of the Tibetan culture also has a great influence, especially in the Tibetan traditional calendar, medicine, divination and other aspects of the extensive use, so far.