『五行大義』의 五行 배속 고찰

Abstract

Wuxingdayi(五行大義), written by So-gil of Su-Dynasty, is a book that collects and describes the records related to the five elements that remained until that time, everything, from the five intestines of the human body to insects, was assigned to the five elements, and it was intended to be widely used in various fields. In the text, the five flavors, five colors, and five tones that appear in common in various literature among the primitive classes of five elements are considered, focusing on 『Wuxingdayi(五行大義)』, also looked at the assignment of the five elements that appeared in 『Gwanja』, Jin Dynasty's 『YeoCiChunchu』, Han Dynasty’s 『Hui NamNa』, 『Chunchuburn-ro』, and 『 Baekho Tongui』, which began to deal with the Yinyang Five Elements theory in earnest after the Warring States Period. For the five flavors, both the 『Wuxingdayi』 and the comparative literature assigned as sour taste for trees, bitter taste for fire, sweet taste for earth, spicy taste for gold, and salty taste for water. The five flavors emphasized that it is inseparable from diet, and that the energy of the five elements that is lacking should be supplemented through diet. Regarding the five colors, 『Wuxingdayi』 assigned by dividing the five genuine colors and the five mixed colors. For the genuine colors, it was assigned as blue for trees, red for fire, yellow for earth, white for gold, and black for water, for the mixed colors, as green (blue+yellow) for trees, as pink for fire (red+white), as olive (yellow+black) for earth, as sky blue (white+blue) for gold, and as purple(black+red) for water. The assignment of the mixed color was made up of a superpolar relationship, and it is characterized by explaining the cause of the assignment using the clues for the combination of the ten celestial stems. Citing various documents, 『Wuxingdayi』 assigned the five tones with Gung (Earth), Sang (Gold), Gak (Tree), Chi (Fire), and Woo (Water), and only 『Gwanja』 assigned Chi and Woo differently, respectively. It was explained that the selection can be determined through sound, and that the basis of the calendar and the seasonal ordinances is the melody, which comes from the five tones.
 In short, if the assignment of the five elements for the five flavors and the five colors is related to physical health, it can be said that the assignment of five tones is related to politics.