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According to Records of the Historian Biography of Emperor Gaozu, when Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang was appointed as the county magistrate of Peixian County, he released the peasants who were escorted and fled to Fengxize, where he killed a white python. Later, I met an old lady crying and told Liu Bang, "My son was a white emperor and turned into a snake. Now he was killed by Chi Di, so I am very sad." .

Liu Bang later took part in the uprising and founded the Han Dynasty.

In fact, the story of Liu Bang beheading a white python hides the relationship between Chinese dynasties and the attributes of the five elements. The theory of five elements refers to expressing and classifying the attributes of various things in nature with the attributes of wood, fire, earth, gold and water and the relationship between the five elements.

Every dynasty in China has five elements, and the replacement of dynasties is the way for Yao and Shun to abdicate, and the next dynasty belongs to the five elements; One is to conquer and replace by force, and the next dynasty is the Five Elements.

According to the theory of five elements, the five elements in Qin Dynasty belonged to water. "Qin Shihuang is the emperor of the world, or: the Yellow Emperor has the virtue of land, and the land of Huanglong is seen. In summer, there is virtue, the green dragon stops in the suburbs, and the vegetation is lush. Yindejinde, silver light overflows the mountains. Zhou de's fire virtue has a symbol of red and black. Today, the Qin dynasty changed to the Zhou dynasty, which is the time of water virtue. Yesterday, when Qin Wengong went hunting, he won the Black Dragon, which is the virtue of water. So Qin Minghe said "Deshui", taking winter and October as the first year, with black color, six degrees of fame, loud voice and unity of everything. "

The duke of the Han Dynasty said, "Qin gained the virtue of water at the beginning, but now Han has taken it and pushed it to the end, which will be the virtue of Han and should be seen in Huanglong." The new moon is just right, easy to take color, and the color is yellow. "

China had the theory of five elements a long time ago. During the Warring States Period, Zou Yan, a Yin and Yang scholar, put forward the theory of five virtues from beginning to end, and Liu Xin, a scholar of the Han Dynasty, summarized the five elements of each dynasty as follows:

The five elements of the Xia Dynasty belonged to wood, Shang Tang replaced Xia and Jin Kemu;

In Shang Dynasty, the five elements belonged to gold, and Wu Zhou destroyed them.

The five elements of the Zhou Dynasty belonged to fire, Qin swept the six countries, and water overwhelmed the fire;

Qin five elements belong to water, Han and Qin, and soil is water;

The five elements of the Han Dynasty belonged to the soil, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, and Mu Ketu;

Wei, Jin and Five Elements belong to wood, and the Three Kingdoms belong to gold and Jin Kemu.

The Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties belonged to gold, and the Sui Dynasty was unified.

The five elements in Sui Dynasty belong to fire, and the water in Tang and Sui Dynasties belongs to fire.

The five elements of the Tang Dynasty belonged to water, and the five generations changed, and the soil was filled with water;

The five dynasties and five elements belong to the soil, which was established in the song dynasty and is muke soil;

The five elements of the Song Dynasty belonged to wood, Mongolia destroyed the Song Dynasty and Jin Kemu;

The five elements of the yuan dynasty belonged to gold, and the yuan dynasty was destroyed in the Ming dynasty.

The five elements of the Ming dynasty belonged to fire, and the Qing dynasty entered the customs, and the water was like fire;

The five elements of Qing Dynasty belonged to water, and the Republic of China was destroyed.

Take the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties as an example: Kublai Khan named the country "Yuan", which was taken from the Book of Changes, in which it was said that "everything started in Yuan, and the five elements belonged to gold". When the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang named the country "Ming", that is, to take the fire of the sun of "Daming" and go to the dry yuan gold of the Yuan Dynasty. Nurhachi established the "post-Jin". Because he was worried that "Jin" would be contained by the fire of "Daming", Huang Taiji changed the name of the country to "Qing", which means to take water to suppress the fire.