中国传统的认识论,讲究事物的相克相谐。按照现在的哲学术语说,就是矛盾的对立与统一。例如,中国传统上将世界物质元素分为“五行”,即金、木、水、火、土。它们既相克,如水克火、金克木等,同时又相谐,如水生木、木生火等。它们的相克相谐,构成了存在的物质世界。中国的“五行? Chinese traditional epistemology, pay attention to things in harmony with each other. According to the philosophical terminology nowadays, it is the contradiction and unity of contradictions. For example, China traditionally divides the world’s material elements into “five elements,” namely gold, wood, water, fire and soil. They are both grams, such as water grams of fire, such as gold grams of wood, but also harmonious, such as aquatic wood, wood fire and so on. Their phase harmony, constitute the existence of the material world. China’s "Five Elements?