Five Elements Playing Cards Wooden Collection Set with 5 Dice by TCCFive Elements Ancient Chinese philosophy and astrology believed that nature is composed of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and soil. These five types of elements have different properties. Fire is hot, which has an upward nature; the soil has the nature of peace and existence; gold has the nature of killing and astringency; water has the nature of cold and moisturizing. With the rise and fall of these five elements, nature has changed,