Wuxing

Wuxing is connected to ancient Chinese physics more than their religion. It is a set of disciplines that are focused on the behaviour and manifestation of the force they call chi. Chi is the force of first cause. In wuxing, they identify different patterns in energy and matter. Solids are the earth category. Liquids are the water category. Plasma is the fire category. The other two being wood and metal. They adapt the five categories into a whole system of natural philosophy. It’s what wuxing is.

Duality always resolves according to the balance of chi between the two apparent opposites. Human chi is a composite of many different patterns of chi. Literally all five categories or you could not live. But they do balance differently in different people, and people have individual needs for a specific pattern of chi.

“Wu Xing” is actually the short form of “Wu zhong liu xing zhi chi” or “the five types of chi dominating at different times”. Water dominates in winter, wood in spring, fire in summer, metal in autumn. At the intersection between two seasons, the transitional period is dominated by earth. It is customary in Chinese writing to summarize a longer phrase into a couple of characters. Sometimes the meaning is completely lost in the abbreviated form if the original phrase is not referred to. Wu Xing is one such example.” Master Joseph Yu