五畜的五行属性考

Study for Five Elements Attribute of Five Domestic Animals

五畜的五行属性的不同,使今人对其的理解形成了一定困难。因此有必要理清其中的配属关系,所以试图从原始图腾着入,以祭祀为主线澄源清流,方明晓古人因取象不同,分五畜为四时之畜、五方之畜、五事之畜、五祀之畜、五味之畜。

To understand the five elements attribute of the five animals is very difficult, and it is need to distinct the relationship. We start from the primitive totem, use sacrifice as the main line to study the five elements attribute of the five animals, to know that the ancients distinguished the five domestic animals as the animals of four periods ,the animals of five orientation, the animals of five affair, the animals of five sacrifice, the animals of five taste according to the different image.