Tradtional Chinese Medicine Zhai Jianli 翟建丽2.2 The Five elements 2.2.1 Formation and Concepts of the Five Elements The ancient Chinese recognized that wood, fire, earth,metal,water are the five indispensable materials in human life,later, people looked to the properties of these five materials to explain the whole physical world. 2.2 The Five elements 2.2.2Major concepts of the Five Elements 2.2.2.1Characteristics of Five Elements People categorized things into wood,fire, earth,metal and water a
