Many concepts once thought to be analogous, such as the Chinese Wu Xing, are now understood more figuratively.

The Wu Xing are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for systems with five stages ; hence the preferred translation of " movements ", " phases " or " steps " over " elements.

Water is one of the elements in ancient Greek philosophy, in the Asian Indian system Panchamahabhuta, and in the Chinese cosmological and physiological system Wu Xing.

The Wu Xing, ( 五行 wŭ xíng ) also known as the Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, and the Five Steps / Stages, are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device, in many traditional Chinese fields.

Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun ( 五運 wŭ yùn ) or a combination of the two characters ( Wu Xing-Yun ) these emphasise the correspondence of five elements to five ' seasons ' ( four seasons plus one ).

The Wu Xing were mainly used as memory tools, hence the preferred translation of " movements ", " phases " or " steps " over " elements ".

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* Wu Xing, sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism

When Emperor Wu of Liu Song subdued Guanzhong he obtained the south-pointing carriage of Yao Xing, but it was only the shell with no machinery inside.

It considers the five celestial animals ( phoenix, green dragon, white tiger, black turtle, and the yellow snake ), the yin-yang concept and the traditional five elements ( Wu Xing: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water ).

Wu Xing (), the five phases, or five elements, is an ancient Chinese mnemonic and symbolic figure widely known in East Asia and used traditionally in applications such as medicine, acupuncture, feng shui, and Taoism.

As the advancing Shu army captured regions including Zigui, Wu County, Mount Ba and Mount Xing, Wu forces that set out from their fortifications to engage the enemy were nearly all annihilated.

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* Earth ( Wu Xing ), one of the Wu Xing ( five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy )

Chen Yuanyuan (; 1624 – 1681 ), born Xing Yuan ( 邢沅 ), lived near the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was a concubine of Wu Sangui.

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The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Peng, a powerful official and Wu Han's direct superior, was the head of the " Five Man Group ", a committee commissioned by Mao to study the potential for a cultural revolution.

The term Wu Hu meaning the " Five Hu " was first used in the Shiliuguo Chunqiu ( 501-522 ), which recorded the history of the five tribes ravaging Northern China from the early fourth century to the mid fifth century.

The time of the ravages is called the Wu Hu Period ( 五胡時代 ) or Wu Hu Chaos ( 五胡亂華, literally " Five Hu Wreak-havoc-on China ").

After the Tang Dynasty disintegrated in the 10th century, Hubei came under the control of several regional regimes: Jingnan in the center, Wu ( later Southern Tang ) to the east, and the Five Dynasties to the north.

To expand the burgeoning trade with Burma and India, Emperor Wu also sent Tang Meng ( 唐蒙 ) to maintain and expand the Five Foot Way, renaming it " Southwest Barbarian Way " ( 西南夷道 ).

Li Houzhu () ( 937 – 978 ), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang ( 南唐後主, literally " the latter lord of Southern Tang "), personal name Li Yu ( 李煜 ), né Li Congjia ( 李從嘉 ), courtesy name Chongguang ( 重光 ; pinyin: chòngguāng ), posthumously known as Prince of Wu ( 吳王 ), was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

** Wu ( Ten Kingdoms ), one of the kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Taiwanese politicians Kuo Yu-hsin, Li Wan-chu, Kuo Kuo-chi, Li Yuan-chan, and Wu San-lien are called the " Five Tiger Generals " of the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council.

The Eight Gates are said to be associated with the eight trigrams ( Bagua 八卦 bā guà ) of the I Ching, the Five Steps with the five elements of the Taoist Wu Hsing ( 五行 wǔ xíng ); metal, water, wood, fire, and earth.

Feng adapted traditional folk ensemble pieces into dizi solos, such as Xi xiang feng ( Happy Reunion ), Wu bangzi ( Five Clappers ), contributing to the new Chinese conservatory curricula in traditional instrument performance.

The monk Xuanzang referred to India as Wu Yin or " Five Inds ".

He was followed by many other barbarian leaders, and these rebels were called the " Wu Hu " or literally " Five barbarian tribes ".

* Yang Longyan ( 897 – 920 ), King of Wu of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, also known as Yang Wei

The city, still known as Guangling, was briefly made the capital of the Wu Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Ma Liang was sent as envoy to Wuling to seek allies among the barbarians of the Five Streams ( 五溪蠻夷 ) against Wu.

Two historically significant Hu names are this Donghu 東胡 ( literally " Eastern Barbarians ") " ancient Mongolian nomadic group " and the Wu Hu 五胡 (" Five Barbarians ") " five nomadic tribes involved in the Wu Hu uprising " ( 304-316 CE ) against the Jin Dynasty.

The work was designated one of the Five Classics when Confucian works made official by Emperor Wu of Han, and Jing (" classic ") was added to its name.

Ning Wu, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China, used the theory of quantum gauge theory of gravity he had developed in 2001 to explain Podkletnov ’ s observations.

Wu ’ s theory approximated the relative gravity loss as 0. 03 % ( an order of magnitude smaller than the reported range of 0. 3 – 0. 5 %).

He received his bachelor's degree in 1942, the thesis being about the application of group theory to molecular spectra, under the supervision of Wu Ta-you ( 吴大猷 ) ( 1907 – 2000 ).

Despite the modern popularity of the Qu Yuan origin theory, in the former territory of the state of Wu, the festival commemorated Wu Zixu ( died 484 BCE ).

In 179 BC, after some hesitation ( during which he, apparently influenced by the theory of chanrang ( 禪讓 ), thought that maybe it would be more proper for him to find the wisest person in the empire and offer the throne to him, or that he should consider offering the throne to his uncle Liu Jiao ( 劉交 ), the Prince of Chu ; his cousin Liu Pi ( 劉濞 ), the Prince of Wu ; or his younger brother Liu Chang ( 劉長 ), the Prince of Huainan ), he created his oldest son Liu Qi the Crown Prince and Prince Qi's mother, Consort Dou, Empress.

Under this theory, Emperor Jing, in 154 BC, carved out one commandery each from the Principalities of Chu ( modern northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui ) and Zhao and six counties from the Principality of Jiaoxi ( roughly modern Weifang, Shandong ), before carving two commanderies out of Wu.

There is a body of writing attributed to Wu Yu-hsiang on the subject of t ' ai chi theory, writings that are considered influential by many other schools not directly associated with his style.

In early 846, in an attempt to ward off the illness, he changed his name to Li Yan — under the theory that under the Wu Xing cosmology, his original name of Chan ( 瀍 ) contained two instances of earth ( 土 ) while only containing one instance of water ( 水 ), which meant that he was getting suppressed by the dynasty's own spirits ( as Tang beliefs included that the dynasty was protected by earth ), while Yan ( 炎 ) contained two instances of fire ( 火 ), which was more harmonious with earth.

According to TCM theory of Wu Xing ( Five Elements ), each animal has two exercises corresponding to the five yin ( Zang ) and five yang ( Fu ) internal organs.