What are the five elements

Five elements of wood, earth, fire, metal and water five basic "elements", the development and changes of all sorts of things in nature are the five kinds of material constant motion and the result of the interaction.

Has the characteristics of cases under the five elements:

Wood: have the feature of germinal, article;

Fire: has the characteristics of hot and upward;

Soil: has the characteristics of long breeding, germination;

Kim: have the feature of quiet, to kill;

Water: has the characteristics of cold, down.