人们为什么把一切物体统称为“东西”?我国古代把木、火、金、水、土称为“五行”(分别代表东西南北中五个方位):把甲、乙、丙、丁、戊、已、庚、辛、壬、癸称为“天干”,又把“五行”、“天干”对应起来,组成“五方”。即:东方甲乙木,南方丙丁火,西方庚辛金,北方壬癸水,中方戊己士。可以看出,东方属木,可以代表—切植物,如花草、树木、疏菜、庄稼等等:西方属金,可以代表一切金属矿物,如金、银、铜、铁、锡等等;南方属火,火是一种化 Why do people collectively refer to all things as “things”? In ancient China, we referred to wood, fire, gold, water and soil as the “five elements” (representing the five directions in the east, west, north and south respectively) Has, G, Xin, Ren, Gui called “Heavenly Stems”, and the “Five Elements”, “Heavenly Stem” corresponding to form a “five parties.” Namely: East A second wood, South Ding Ding fire, West Gansin gold, North Ren Gui water, the Chinese Pentagram. It can be seen that the oriental wood can represent - cut plants, such as flowers, trees, vegetables, crops and so on: Western gold, can represent all metal minerals such as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and so on; South Fire, fire is a kind of