古人认为，“金、木、水、火、土”这五种物质是构成世间万物的基本元素。人们在依照“近取诸身，远取诸物”的原则来观察、描述世界的时候，会通过隐喻或转喻的方式使五行的性质、特点等映射到时间、空间、生理、心理等方面，形成了五行学说。 现代汉语中，也有很多以五行为源域的隐喻或转喻。本文即在CCL现代汉语语料库中以“金、木、水、火、土”为关键字进行检索，将以五行为源域的隐喻及转喻语料归纳出体系，简单说明隐喻的层次性，并考查是否能够形成结构隐喻。通过分析其映射关系，探究其认知基础，希望可以了解现代社会中人们对五行的认知机制。

The ancients believed that the five substances of "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" were the basic elements that made up all things in the world. When people observe and describe the world, they will map the nature and characteristics of the five elements to time, space, physiology, psychology and so on by means of metaphor or metonymy. In this way, the theory of theory is formed. In Modern Chinese, there are also many metaphors or metonymies about the five elements as the source domain. This paper will use "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" as the key words in Center for Chinese Linguistics PKU to search for metaphors or metonymies with the source domain of the five elements. It will summarize the metaphor and metonymy corpora, briefly explain the hierarchy of metaphor, and examine whether the structural metaphor can be formed. By analyzing the mapping relationship and exploring the cognitive basis, the paper aims to understand the cognitive mechanism of people about the five elements in modern society.