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MU: Wood

The symbolism of the tree and references to the plant, although discrete, are ubiquitous throughout the classical Chinese thought and its applications, such as traditional medicine and martial arts. In TAI JI QUAN, for example, and qigong, words such as rooting, "hug a tree", are part of common practice (SHAOLIN: Small Forest). We see, therefore, some aspects that identify the timber.

Movement Wood (1) is characterized by its dynamism, the ability of outsiders as well as the ability to make and wrap. Ties to the awakening, birth, rebirth, we can define the momentum in life. " In Cycle Generating (Sheng) Elements / Movements of the Chinese tradition, the wood is generated by water and in turn generates the Fire. We can say, figuratively, that sinks its roots "in the water and extends the" branches "to the Fire. In fact, the emblem of its ideogram (MU - 木) is a plant, a tree, which is thrown up (Sky - YANG) but remains firmly rooted to the ground (earth - YIN).

Linked to the Spring (Chun - 春) (2), season of belonging, in this time of year has its maximum expression. The day is the morning dawn, the sunrise. In humans, as we have seen, is the birth, infancy. Esoterically is "out into the light," the passage of time (XIAO YANG) from the maximum of Yin (Tai Yin), water (amniotic fluid), death, the maximum Yang (Tai Yang), the Fire sun, light, life. Wood is, therefore, movement, renewal, birth, but also, by extension, rebirth, resurrection after death.

In a spatial sense, the order of the four orientations, Wood is represented from the East (Dong), (3) the cardinal point where the sun rises. And it is a sun (日) rising above a tree (木), the image of DONG, a character that identifies a cardinal point, but at the same time gives a notion of time: the dawn, the beginning of the day. "The East Wind was born in Spring" (4) and just the wind (feng - 风) is the expression, in the order of Heaven, Wood. In this human body is identified in the liver, with regard to the organ (ZANG) and Gall Bladder in the viscera (FU).

(1) MU (Mu - W. 119, A). Represents a tree, the branches at the top, bottom, the roots in the middle of the trunk. By extension, wood. (L. Wieger "Chinese Characters" - published by Dover)
(2) CHUN (Ch'ung - W. 47, P). Spring. The character represents the most ancient of plants under the influence of the sun at the beginning of the year (L. Wieger "Chinese Characters" - published by Dover)
(3) DONG (Tung - W. 120, K). The sun appears on the horizon. To show that it is level with the horizon is below the top of the trees ... by extension the East (L. Wieger "Chinese Characters" - published by Dover)
(4) "Huangdi Neijing Suwen" by C . Larre and ER De La Vallée - Ed Jaca Book.