The writer on geomancy Li Jen-kuei points out that Confucians believe that five is very close to the path of the golden mean of "adopting the middle between two extremes," and also promotes the thought of the "five pathways."
堪輿學作家李人奎指出，儒教認為「五」與其「執兩用中」的中庸之道很吻合，而提倡五行思想。