Fèi (肺) — Lung / Metal
Canopy of the zang — metal phase, bilateral
Fèi (肺) — the lungs, paired with the metal phase. The Suwen calls the lungs 'the canopy of the zang' (huá gài, 華蓋), positioned highest in the body cavity above all the other organs. They govern qi (the breath as the body's qi-substrate), descend the qi to the kidneys for storage, and rule the skin and body-hair as the boundary of the body. They correspond to autumn, the western direction, the colour white, the pungent taste, and the emotion of grief. Lingshu 8 pairs the lungs with the po (魄) — the corporeal soul, the seven 'animal-vital' faculties that animate the body without consciousness and depart with the breath at death. We render the lungs as a single bilateral point on the anatomical-right side at lung-region height (x=0.40, y=0.23, with y interpreted as the upper-thoracic level beneath the clavicles), with the understanding that the canonical zang is paired (two lungs, both belonging to the metal phase).
Point 2 of 5 in Five Phases (Wuxing) at the Five Zang Organs
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Huangdi Neijing — Suwen, ch. 9 (Liu jie zang xiang lun) (primary_canonical)
“The lung is the high official, the regulator of the qi of the body; it governs descent, holding the breath and pacifying the qi.”
Huangdi Neijing — Lingshu, ch. 8 (Ben shen) (primary_canonical)
Lingshu ch. 8 (Ben shen) pairs the lung with po, the corporeal soul, documenting the lung–mind correspondence used here; the metal phase and seasonal attributes come from the Neijing’s wider correlative passages.