So I was looking through random blogs, and I found one that hadn't been updated since last winter. The author was talking about how it was the Chinese New Year and what the year's animal and element was. So I decided to look up my own year and element. I am year of the horse and my element is metal! :3 Of course, I had no idea what that even meant, so I had to look it up.
The Chinese believed that the elements provided deeper understandings of our inner beings. The elements include water, fire, metal, earth, and wood. Every explanation I read reminded me of the game "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Scissors cuts rock, rock smashes scissors...etc. Every element can overpower or be overpowered by another. They all have strengths and weaknesses. I think it ties into the Yin-Yang somehow...but my mind is still a bit confuzzled about it all.
Some people say it's myth, others take it as fact. What do you think? I don't really know anyone who actually has a developed opinion about this. http://www.thechineseelements.com/Whatelementareyou.htm <-- This website has you take a test that tells your element based off of physical problems. When I took it, my element was supposedly "fire." However, when I looked at the charts based off my birthday month/year, my element was metal. Who knows? Anyone out there have any thoughts or input on this? I'm simply curious about it.
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