Scientists will scientifically study and argue in the face of any objective phenomenon, except for ravings that clearly violate basic logic. The theory of yin and yang, not to mention scientists, would be scoffed at by anyone with even a modicum of scientific literacy!

1. The Yin-Yang and the Five Elements lack basic logical relationships and violate the basic scientific principle of non-falsifiability

The traditional concept is that yin and yang are the fundamentals of everything in the world. In fact, everything in the world has nothing to do with yin and yang. All the fields of science, engineering and management involved in the modern technological system do not care about yin and yang, and still achieve great development and innovation that can change the world.

As the fundamental yin and yang of all things in the world, in addition to Chinese medicine in the use of modern medicine do not even look squarely at it.

In the following disciplines, which cover almost the entire real physical world, where is the logical relationship between yin and yang and the five elements, which are the basis of all things, when none of the theories of the industry use them?

None of the following disciplines apply the so-called yin-yang and five elements theory, which is the basis of all things!

Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geography, Atmospheric Sciences, Marine Sciences, Geophysics, Geology, Biology, Systems Science, History of Science and Technology, Ecology, Statistics, Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Instrumentation Science and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Power Engineering and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Science and Technology, Information and Communication Engineering, Control Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology, Chemical Engineering and Technology, Geological Resources and Geology, Mining Engineering, Oil and Gas Engineering, Textile Science and Engineering, Light Industry Technology and Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering, Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology, Weapon Science and Technology, Nuclear Science and Technology, Agricultural Engineering, Forestry Engineering, Environmental Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Food Science and Engineering, Urban and Rural Planning, Wind Garden Forestry, Software Engineering, Bioengineering, Security Science and Engineering, Public Security Technology, Crop Science, Horticulture, Agricultural Pirate Source Utilization, Plant Protection, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine, Forestry, Aquaculture, and so on.

Scientists in many of the aforementioned fields would instantly fling a look of disdain when confronted with the yin-yang, five elements theory! One more second of lingering and these scientists would have failed!

2, yin and yang five elements theory and thinking should have long been removed from the Chinese cognitive outlook

The five elements of yin and yang were merely the simple philosophical views of the ancients who observed the world more than a thousand years ago, and they may have had some value at that time. In the modern society where science has become bright and people's wisdom has been opened up, this kind of simple binary cognitive method of neither yin nor yang, black nor white should have been eliminated from our national cognitive outlook long time ago. At the same time, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine should also abandon this wrong theory around the yin and yang five elements to explain the disease mechanism and pathology. Most importantly, this cognitive approach, which lacks logical thinking, greatly affects, limits and stifles the ability of national thinking.

The way of thinking of Chinese nationals determines the health, development and competitiveness of Chinese society as a whole, and the wrong kind of bonobo thinking of yin and yang must be eliminated. Otherwise, it will stagnate and suffocate China's national competitiveness and affect the realization of China's goal of moving towards greater heights!

The I Ching divides everything in the universe into two categories, yin and yang, according to the attributes of things, and uses the theory of yin and yang and the five elements to describe the laws of development and change in the world, as well as people's good fortune and bad fortune.

The I Ching's contribution to mankind's discovery of the laws of nature and its conquest is certainly outstanding. It is the origin of Oriental culture. Our ancient calendars, astronomy, meteorology, mathematics, military science, philosophy, and traditional Chinese medicine were all developed on the basis of the Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory of the I Ching.

As far as Chinese medicine is concerned, the yin and yang five elements doctrine arithmetic law can be applied to all natural phenomena in the universe and the human body diseases, treatment ...... and so on. The occurrence of human disease is human physiology, psychology in an unbalanced state, that is, caused by the imbalance of the five elements in the human body.

Physiological structure of the human body and psychological thinking, inseparable from the law of yin and yang, each organ is the relationship between each other, the health of the human body by the external and internal factors, due to the Earth's position in the cosmos at different times, gravity field, electromagnetic field will change, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, the five qualities with the four climate, when the prosperous, when the decline of the different, the human body established by the five organs of the intangible force field by the external time-varying field of the important factor in determining whether the disease is deteriorating or healing. The invisible force fields established by the five organs in the human body are affected by the external time-varying force fields, which is an important factor in determining whether a disease will deteriorate or heal. Therefore, the diagnosis and treatment of diseases must take into account the internal and external changes and individual differences. If we do not know the patient's innate physical condition, acquired condition, and the five elements of the four seasons, blindly strengthening the stronger of the five organs and suppressing the weaker, which violates the law of balance of the five elements, yin and yang, it will easily lead to the death of the unfortunate accident.

Chinese medicine is a valuable heritage left by our ancestors, as evidenced by the indelible role it played during the fight against SARS in 2003 and the new coronavirus in 2019. It would be unwise to dismiss TCM on the basis that it does not fulfill the criteria of Western medicine, which is something scientists should face.

After all, Eastern and Western cultures are different. Eastern culture is a fuzzy culture, heavy macro, the analysis and grasp of things from macro to micro, heavy connection, that everything in the world is not isolated, interconnected; and Western science is empirical science, heavy micro, data, logic, so the Oriental people like to do things based on experience, based on the feeling, there is an approximate direction on it. Westerners do things by careful planning, by sophisticated data. Oriental people heavy connection, from one thing can be linked to anything related.

Therefore, Chinese medicine looks at the root of the disease and traces it back to its source. The root cause and the symptoms. Westerners are good at dismantling, like to divide a thing until it can not be divided, and then look at it separately, Western medicine is also a headache, treating the disease, the body organs and organs divided to look at the results left behind is the aftermath.

Back to the I Ching, I Ching contribution to Western science is also huge, the eighteenth century German famous mathematician Leibniz through the I Ching Tai Chi diagram and 64 hexagrams yin and yang arrangement of the order of the study, completed the theory of binary. And binary math is the foundation of computer language.

Regarding how to face the yin and yang and the five elements, how to face the yin and yang and the five elements based on the I Ching and Chinese medicine, different people get different insights from it. Scientists can get insights from science, philosophers can get insights from philosophy, and we ordinary people can get insights from being human.

Gossip in the yin and yang five elements at the body is the ancient view of heaven and earth is the dialectical summary of the experience of all things, that is, all things change I chemically are in contradiction, white and black, up and down, men and women, the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth of the phases of life and death, are the objective performance of all things. Modern science also embodies these things, called a different just. The ancients used water to extinguish the fire, that is, water grams of fire, now fire fighting, and so on. Are people from the most primitive understanding. Like the text from the rope buckle, oracle bone writing, to now, is in development.

Those who do not understand the theory of the five elements, the mention of the superstition, the body is not understand what the I Ching, may also see those stalls fortune-tellers read too much, think that is the I Ching and the five elements, do not know the dialectical thinking of the I Ching the real essence of the I Ching.

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How should scientists face the theory of "yin and yang"? Scientists should look at the "Yin-Yang and Five Elements" theory created by ancient people realistically. In the ancient times when science and technology were very undeveloped, people were able to summarize the existence of the objective world in the form of gold, this, water, fire and earth, which is indeed a remarkable crystallization of wisdom. Detailed analysis, the whole earth is not by gold (gold: that is, metal, gold, silver, copper and iron ......), wood (all plants on the surface of the earth), water (human beings, plants and animals to survive the most important substances), fire (human beings towards civilization indispensable substances), earth (human beings and plants and animals indispensable to survive the material) composition? Gold, wood, water, fire and earth make up the complex material world, both independent and interrelated. That is why they are called the five elements of yin and yang. A society and a person are inseparable from the five elements of yin and yang. There is day and night, there is heat and cold, there is the sun and the moon, there are clouds and rain, wind, frost and snow, and there is joy, anger and sadness. Yin-yang and five elements is the most ancient, the most objective natural science, is definitely not a feudal superstition, it can be observed from the macro world and life, but also from the subtle observation of specific people and things. Mastering the laws of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, nature and society will be harmonious, and vice versa will be messy. Yin-Yang and Five Elements still has its irreplaceable role in modern times, it is very worthwhile to dissect the ancient Yin-Yang and Five Elements with modern science, so as to make use of the past for the present.

The mountains are high. Especially as the waves of the river continue unceasingly, especially as the Yellow River floods in an uncontrollable manner.

Scientists see the "yin and yang five elements" that is a small witch to see a big witch, this is not to belittle the scientists, but when the term science is still in the mother's belly was not born when the "yin and yang five elements" is already gray hair, the "yin and yang five elements", and the "yin and yang five elements" is already gray.

Yin and Yang five elements is said to be the ancient five departments, like the current Ministry of Agriculture (earth), Forestry Department (wood), the Ministry of Industry (gold) Ancient people discovered the fire, real life can not leave the fire and sent Zhu Rong in charge of the Ministry of Fire (fire), Gong Gong to take charge of the water conservancy (water). Anyway, is that nature can not be separated from these five things, and Buddhism said the four major land, water, fire, wind, nature is the real existence of these things, people found that these things are mutually reinforcing, applied to the practice of life to form a complete set of theoretical and practical system, thousands of years to influence the wide range of usefulness, nowhere exists.

Science is now a teaching, is the overall doctrine of the five elements of separate empirical evidence, can also be said to be an extension of the development of the two are not opposing nor contradictory, the overall branch, abstraction and specific. Therefore, science is facing the five elements is to learn from, research and practice, integration and generalization into one, rather than exclusion of singing the opposite, which is not the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts.

I just can't understand some people every day to take some ancient things can not be disproved out to say things, is it to prove that people nowadays are not as smart as the ancient people? It's the 21st century, satellites are in the sky, and some people still believe in the ancient theory of yin-yang and five elements. If the theory of yin-yang and five elements is really so good, why China has not produced a strong scientific and technological civilization? Why philosophy, logic and other scientific theories are born in foreign countries, is due to the lack of logical thinking is always superstitious ancient made-up things, the lack of innovation, stubbornly self-centered to cause today's science and branch too far behind foreign countries.

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The doctrines of yin and yang and the five elements are the backbone of Chinese culture, and they have had a profound influence on Chinese history and culture. The British natural scientist Joseph Lee, who studied Chinese culture, proved with a large number of historical facts that for more than a thousand years, ancient Chinese science and technology were among the world's leaders. However, ancient Chinese science was basically based on the "Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory".

Today we are going to come to a simple reasoning about the five elements of yin and yang. What is the relationship between the yin and yang attributes of the five elements? The five elements have the two most famous diagrams, one is the five elements of the diagram, one is the five elements of the diagram, the diagram of the phases of the birth of fire is the earth, the earth is gold, gold is water, water is wood, wood is fire and the formation of the cycle. The phasing diagram is the cycle formed by fire and gold, gold and wood, wood and earth, earth and water, and water and fire.

As you can see you can see that the five elements have the attributes of phasing and kiting respectively, and you can see that they are subordinate to the yin and yang principle. Therefore when we examine the earth, we can get a picture, and the same is true when we examine the other four, we extract it. This diagram has never been drawn by anyone before me, and it is shown to you today.

We can see that each line of elements can be given four relationships, which are clearly born it, gram it, it begets, and it grams. Since everything is interconnected, this is the basic view of our Chinese culture of holistic thinking. Chaos doctrine can also prove this point, a butterfly flapping its wings in South America can cause all the hurricanes in North America. Now, if we reason a little bit, we can get that everything has four kinds of relationships or factors that affect it. Except for gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, which can be placed in them, everything else can be, so you can think about it. I call this diagram the Five Elements Open System, which is open and universally connected.

For example, one could try putting in the philosophical question that confuses us the most. Who am I is placed in the center, then what gives birth to it is where I come from and what we learn. What begets it is where I go and what we achieve. Gram it is what I can't do. It grams it, which is what I can do. It is these four relationships that determine what we are worth, what we are capable of, and how we go about improving ourselves. Although this is not always right for me to fill in, so you can think about it yourself and ask questions and work on it together. But with anything and everything, there are four relationships or factors that affect it, and this is constant, so we can all seek to prove it.

So, where do I come from? Everything under heaven is born from something, and something is born from nothing. The Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things. Everything is born of yin and embraces the yang, and the qi is harmonized. （So, where am I going? Everything in this world has a fixed number, from where it comes naturally to where it goes! (So I come from nothing, and naturally go from nothing).

There is a saying in Zhou Yi that one yin and one yang is called the Way. Therefore we can think: there are two major forces in the universe, one is Yang and the other is Yin. Such a thought is obviously abstracted from sensual intuition. In terms of the space in which people live, there is the sky, there is the earth; in terms of the time of day, there is the day, there is the night; take a day, there is the time of the sun at noon, there is the time of the morning sun and dusk sunset; in terms of human life, there is the youth of the energetic, there is the twilight of the late; in terms of the cause of people, there is the time of the smooth, and there is the time of the adversity, and so on. We Chinese summarize the bright, positive and controlling forces as yang, and the dark, negative and subordinate forces as yin. The two forces of yin and yang are mutually antagonistic and interdependent. Without yin, there would be no yang, and without the action of yin, yang alone would not be able to bring forth all things. The reverse is also true. The two interact with each other. Yang has an attractive and repulsive force on yin, and so does yin on yang. The two interact, and the universe is thus energized. Yang rises and Yin falls; Yang is opening and Yin is closing. A rise and a fall, an opening and a closing, constitute the dynamics of the universe. The root of all change comes from the action of these two qi. So these four offs can be further divided into yin and yang. Individual things and objects within these four relations can also be placed in the center, establishing its four relations to infinity.

The doctrine of yin-yang and five elements is the crystallization of ancient Chinese philosophical thought, this immortal crystallization not only will not be with the passage of time, the rapid progress of science in and fade out of sight, on the contrary, she has not been fully understood by the esoteric philosophical, along with the sublimation of the understanding of the more and more obvious in front of us, so that we realize that, instead of being a simple epistemology of some people ruthlessly deducted, on the contrary, it is a modern philosophy of thinking. It is, on the contrary, the philosophy of modern thinking.

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There is no need for scientists to study the theory of ''yin and yang, five elements'' at all. Human society was moving forward rapidly under the impetus of natural science and technology. Whether it is space technology, or Beidou navigation technology and Internet technology, etc., there is no need to be guided by the theory of ''yin and yang, five elements''. How many of the world's top scientists and Nobel Prize winners were researching the ''yin and yang five elements'' theory? Even the vast majority of scientists simply do not know what ''yin and yang five elements'' theory. The scientific research results continue to come out as usual.

Those who put ''yin and yang five elements'' theory as ''truth'' to research people, you can devote their lives to continue to study ''yin and yang five elements'' theory. However, you have to face up to history, ''yin and yang five elements'' theory through the generations of thousands of years of research, the great country finally can not avoid backwardness beaten life.

What is the root cause of backwardness? In addition to the political dictatorship and authoritarian system of government, another important reason for backwardness lies in natural science and technology. We only focused on the theory of ''yin and yang, five elements'' and neglected natural science and technology. The lessons of history cannot be unlearned. If we don't forget the lessons of the past, we can learn from them in the future.

At the heart of this issue is the word "science". What is science? I believe that nine out of ten people are unable to say, in most people's minds science is an airplane, ship, advanced equipment, instruments, missiles, atomic bombs and so on. All belong to logical reasoning, mechanical principle type of theory is science. Where can not be logical reasoning, can not use physical and mathematical operations of the abstract theory must be unscientific.

What exactly is the scientific definition of must be clear? It's a bit disappointing to say the least. The Xinhua Dictionary defines science as a system of knowledge that reflects the objective laws of nature, society, and thought. Once we have clarified the definition of science, and eliminated the misunderstandings and misconceptions about the definition of science in a narrow sense, the answer to this question will be very clear and easy. The theory of yin and yang and the five elements, which is the foundation of Chinese medicine, originated from the observation and cognition of ancient ancestors on the laws of nature. The laws of nature and human health and skillfully reconcile the balance to the natural environment, natural influences as the guest, the human body as the main, the two opposing and unify the formation of simple nature, the inevitable theory of yin and yang and the five elements is the wisdom of the ancients of the millennium of scientific crystallization.

Why is there a question about how to face science? This is due to the Chinese medicine is narrowly, misinterpretation of the science of exclusion and fault 100 years, so that the Chinese medicine community rarely really understand the essence of the theory of yin-yang and five elements of the scientific, without the soul of the yin-yang and five elements of Chinese medicine, the lack of successors, quackery and misuse of people, and more so that the people of Chinese medicine to lose the enthusiasm and trust. Only to make Chinese medicine back to the yin and yang five elements of scientific theory, in order to make Chinese medicine Jedi rebirth, there is no question of how to face science, because the yin and yang five elements of this is the product of science.

Scientists may not even need to face or understand the so-called "Yin-Yang Five Elements". Of course, some shameless "kidnapping of traditional culture and Chinese cultural heritage" of the fools have to the yin and yang and the five elements and scientific concepts of one-to-one correspondence, to "prove" the rationality of the yin and yang and the five elements and the scientific nature. For example, some people say that there are positive and negative ions, corresponding to the yin and yang, then who can tell me what is the neutrino without charge? If there is yin and there must be yang, then what is the planet in sun-synchronous orbit? Besides, the five elements, the so-called gold, wood, water, fire and earth are mutually exclusive. The conclusion would be hilarious! Pick any "wood", wood begets fire, fire begets earth, earth begets gold, gold begets water, water begets wood. Wood "begets" all the way back to itself, and if you have problems with your liver and gallbladder (which corresponds to wood), it cannot "beget" the heart and small intestine (which corresponds to fire). Then the spleen and stomach, lungs and large intestine, kidneys and bladder, this circle down all the internal organs all "dead" it! Then we come to phases, such as wood and earth, that is to say, the existence of wood, the inevitable disappearance of the earth, the disappearance of the earth can not produce gold, no gold can not produce water, but earth and water. In terms of phlogiston a decrease in earth leads to a decrease in water, and in terms of phlogiston no earth should increase water. And then what should be the explanation? As with the ancient myths, you can understand the human head and snake body of Nuwa, but you have to say that there must be a human head and snake body of Nuwa, and that it is very scientific is "ill-intentioned"! As China's oldest and simplest understanding of the natural world, the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements is something to understand and be proud of. But by no means is the basis and justification for self-importance, masturbation! I do not shy away from my own point of view, for some of the use of yin and yang five elements of the so-called Chinese medicine practitioners, culture purveyors of deception I report a great deal of contempt. If someone thinks I am wrong, rational discussion, I also humbly accept. For the kind of up on the label of the stupid, I say in advance, such a person should have been born when the head was clamped flat!