[ **up: [[Plants]]** ] --- # Wood ## Wood – China [[2024-0725. The character for wood 木 is a pictogram representing the roots, trunk, and spreading branches of a tree.|‘The written symbol for wood [木] … is a pictogram … representing the roots, trunk, and spreading branches of a tree.’]][^1] [[2024-0725. Wood is the second of the Five Elements.|Wood is the second of the Five Elements.]][^1] [[2024-0725. Wood corresponds to the first and second of the Ten Celestial Stems.|Wood corresponds to the first and second of the Ten Celestial Stems.]][^1] [^1]: C.A.S. Williams, *[[Williams. 'Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives', 1974.|Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives: An alphabetical compendium of antique legends and beliefs, as reflected in the manners and customs of the Chinese]]* (Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1974), pp. 440-441.