There are five Chinese elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each element is strongly related to one another. Wood feeds a fire. Fire makes ash (earth). Earth contains metal. Metal holds ...

There are also five elements of the Chinese zodiac: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. These are derived from the Five Elements Theory—or Wu Xing—a philosophy used to describe the ...

An element for each year Chinese years are also divided into cycles of 10 years, with each pair of consecutive years governed ...