Metal (wuxing)

In Chinese philosophy, metal or gold (Chinese: 金; pinyin: jīn) is one of the five concepts that conform the wuxing. It is the return or the declining stage, and is associated with the west, dusk, autumn, loss, grief, and the White Tiger. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Metal is the young yin symbol of Yinyang philosophy, its motion is going inwards and its energy is contracting. It is related to the Zung solid organ the lungs, and the fu or hollow organ the large intestine, the noses, and the skin. The archetypal metals are silver or gold denoting something special or valuable.