Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WUXING

Definitions of WUXING

1. the five fundamental elements or phases of processes in traditional East Asian cosmology, consisting of fire, water, wood, metal, and earth

Examples of Using WUXING in a Sentence

• The wuxing system has been in use since it was formulated in the second or first century BCE during the Han dynasty.
• Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoin.
• Its basic precepts are a mix of Taoist Wuxing and eight principle theory that are concepts drawn from the modern representation of traditional Chinese medicine.
• During the Han period, the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture—the yin-yang philosophy, the theory and technology of the five elements (Wuxing), the concepts of heaven and earth, and Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian morality—were brought together to formalize the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.
• Their association with the concepts of yin and yang and wuxing developed following the collapse of the Shang.
• the element Wood in Wuxing theory and within Traditional Chinese medicine the Liver Yin and the emotions and virtues of kindness and hope.
• Joseph Needham, a modern British scholar of Chinese philosophy and science, identified Taoism and the technology of the Wuxing as "a naturalistic pantheism which emphasizes the unity and spontaneity of the operations of Nature".
• Religious cosmologies have often developed into the formal logics of metaphysical systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Wuxing or the great chain of being.
• Yijing also mentioned that a Chinese traveller called Wuxing, was studying Dharmakirti's teachings at the Telhara monastery which is just a short distance away from Nalanda which indicates that Dharmakīrti had attained fame as a logician in Magadha around 650–660 CE.
• Scholarly consensus today seems to agree with the Kaiyuan shijiao lu 開元釋教錄, which states that his family hailed from Wuxing 吳興 in present-day Huzhou city, Zhejiang.
• He, by now with the title Prince of Pengcheng (after Shi Hu claimed imperial title earlier in the year and created all of his sons princes), allied with the generals Yao Yizhong (姚弋仲), Pu Hong (蒲洪), Liu Ning (劉寧), Shi Min the Duke of Wuxing, and Wang Luan (王鸞), none of whom was particularly happy about Shi Shi's selection, marched to the capital Yecheng (鄴城, in modern Handan, Hebei), capturing it easily and killing Zhang Chai.
• She returned home to help her parents manage a hotel and taught in two mountain schools before accepting a position as director of music at a Methodist school for girls in Huzhou (now Wuxing, Zhejiang), China, even though she was not a churchgoer and did not consider herself religious.
• Anji County is bordered by Changxing County to the north, Wuxing District and Deqing County to the east, Yuhang District and Lin'an District (both in Hangzhou) to the south, and by Ningguo and Guangde to the west (both in Xuancheng, Anhui).
• His father Yao Cha (533 - 606) was the minister of civil service affairs during Chen, and after Chen's destruction by rival Sui dynasty in February 589, Yao Cha moved his family from Wuxing (吳興, in modern Huzhou, Zhejiang) to the Sui capital Daxing (Chang'an), successively serving as an advisor to Emperor Wen of Sui's crown prince Yang Yong and the secretary general of the Palace Library, carrying the title of Duke of Beijiang.
• In the regenerative cycle of the wuxing, metal engenders water, as it traps falling water from a source, and water begets wood as "rain or dew makes plant life flourish".
• Wang Yan, however, did not initially consider this attack to be a major threat even after Wuxing Circuit (武興, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi) had fallen, and Wang Zongbi and Song further assuaged him by stating that all he needed to do was to station the main Former Shu army at Li Prefecture (利州, in modern Guangyuan, Sichuan) to block the path of the Later Tang forces, Later Tang would not dare to advance deeply into Former Shu territory, as Former Shu still maintained sizable garrisons at Shannan (山南, headquartered in modern Hanzhong, Sichuan) and Dongchuan (東川, headquartered in modern Mianyang, Sichuan) Circuits.
• The town is divided into 18 villages and 1 community, the following areas: Zaoshi Community, Guantang Village, Dongling Village, Xiling Village, Yankou Village, Zaoyuan Village, Dongtou Village, Lingguan Village, Jingyuan Village, Wuxing Village, Chebei Village, Sashui Village, Tianjia Village, Houquan Village, Dachong Village, Huxing Village, Duijiang Village, Caobai Village, and Haitan Village.
• The town is divided into 46 villages and one community, the following areas: Fengshu Community, Shangxin Village, Dabatang Village, Dajiangbian Village, Zoujiang Village, Langjiang Village, Tucha Village, Baiyan Village, Bailong Village, Sunliu Village, Shibei Village, Jizhong Village, Sanlian Village, Nanchong Village, Jinpen Village, Yuehua Village, Xingxing Village, Fuxing Village, Yanzhu Village, Sanmenshi Village, Yantoushan Village, Pengcheng Village, Tiandang Village, Qiaoting Village, Yunxiao Village, Maojiadang Village, Pingli Village, Tuqiao Village, Fanong Village, Tangwanli Village, Wuxing Village, Tianping Village, Huguang Village, Xianchong Village, Meihua Village, Jixing Village, Xingguang Village, Lianmeng Village, Yangliuchong Village, Heheqiao Village, Tangshang Village, Jinshi Village, Kuzhushan Village, Risheng Village, Longtan Village, Shamaochong Village, and Jianjun Village (枫树社区、上新村、大坝塘村、大江边村、邹江村、浪江村、土茶村、白岩村、白龙村、孙刘村、石碑村、集中村、三联村、南冲村、金盆村、月华村、星星村、福星村、烟竹村、三门石村、岩头山村、鹏程村、田凼村、桥亭村、云霄桥村、毛家凼村、坪里村、土桥村、发农村、塘湾里村、五星村、田坪村、湖广村、枧冲村、美华村、吉星村、星光村、联盟村、杨柳冲村、和合桥村、塘上村、金石村、苦竹山村、日升村、龙潭村、纱帽冲村、建军村).
• The town is divided into nine villages and one community, the following areas: Sijihong Community, Wuxing Village, Sijihong Village, Yuque Village, Changzheng Village, Xianfeng Village, Yangquehong Village, Dongfeng Village, Hongqi Village, and Anxin Village (四季红社区、五星村、四季红村、玉鹊村、长征村、先锋村、阳雀洪村、东风村、红旗村、安心村).
• Wu and Wuxing commanderies were later formed between the Yangtze and the north shore of Hangzhou Bay; the administration of the remainder of Kuaiji Commandery was then removed to the site of the former Yue capital in modern Shaoxing's Yuecheng District, which also became known as Kuaiji from this role.

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