Xu Xian chao said: "the five elements constitute the five basic elements of everything in the world, the infinite change and uncertain, everything is dependent on the five elements.The correct order is water wood gold soil, it is the arrangement of depends on the number and the change of Yin and Yang.

In the day, all things, when the first five lines is water.The water after the party and change, and all things, and contains, Yin and Yang are then generated.The water became living things, made of fire.The relationship between water and fire, as parents have children;Mr Yin, ZuoXian belongs to water, xian right belongs to the fire.Fire is because there are water didn't appear, so the fire in the second place.After a fire and water, along with the intercourse of Yin and Yang, all things grow, the third of wood, the fourth gold came along.Fire and water wood Jin Quan lai earth as the backing, so the soil in the fifth."

In the east by azimuth, wood, gold in the west, the fire in the south, the water in the north, soil in central;Soil and water and fire wood, there appeared the five elements of gold.Begets in accordance with the five elements, commonly called wood fire, fire generates, native gold, gold water, aquatic wood.Sex warm wood fire, wood, fire v, meanwhile, drill of burning out, so the wood for the fire.Fire can burn, wood ash, ash soil, namely fire generates.Gold in rock hill, tianjin embellish, native gold.King qi and Yin is cold, warm flow, is pin gold and water, so the king water.Water embellish and grow everything, so the aquatic wood.

According to [hilo-systems book exam], YiLiu as the water in the north, erqi HuoJu south, 38 for wood in the east, 49 for gold in the west, fifty for soil in the middle.Aquatic north east square, east south fire wood, south central fire soil, the native gold, western western kinson north water, this is a combination of the five elements of the order.

Day high vast, six air swirl to into four;In deep and thick, five lines of im to into all things;Also is infinite and uncertain.Saint legislation step to push the cover can not escape its number, view the number for the cause, also is not natural;So in classic, pushed to the machine and poor in it, all from within the number.The water, the fire, and wood, four gold, five soil, since is salty.