CM Culture Displays

Five Elements and Zang-Fu Organs

Design Description

The content is excerpted from the chapters Siqi Tiaoshen Dalun (Great Treatise on Regulating the Spirit in Accordance with the Four Seasons) and Jinkui Zhenyan Lun (True Discourse of the Golden Casket) of Suwen (Plain Questions), using text to express the correspondence between the five elements and the zang-fu organs: wood for liver, fire for heart, earth for spleen, metal for lung, and water for kidney. It explains how the five elements manifest in the environment, zang-fu activity, and emotional changes.

 

When reading these classical passages, viewers can appreciate the five elements concept in the Five Elements Mutually Generating Garden, embodying tian ren xiang ying (man-nature correspondence), and reflect on the close connections between the five elements and their own health, emotions, and daily life.

The above translation was supervised by Prof. Janice PAN. The content was translated by Ms. Emma LAM, and edited by Prof. Janice PAN and Dr. Robert TSATURYAN, with Mr. Sing Leung CHAN, Chinese Medicine Practitioner, serving as consultant.