internal revenue service updates 2015 16 per diem rates the internal revenue service issued its annual updates of per diem rates for use in substantiating certain business expenses taxpayers incur when traveling away from home on or after oct 1
ê¸ëª©ìíí . This is a list of the Chinese characters for the five elements in a comfortable order (meaning that they simply feel right to a Chinese person who views this arrangement). The order is metal, wood, water, fire, earth. Note that sometimes the metal element is translated as gold.
In traditional Chinese art and culture, black, red, qing (a conflation of the idea of green and blue sometimes called  grue ), white and yellow are viewed as standard colors. These colors correspond to the five elements of water, fire, wood, metal and earth, taught in traditional Chinese physics.