China Yin-Yang Culture"Yin and Yang culture has a deep meaning in China. Yin and Yang were first seen in the Book of Changes. They were regarded as the basic elements that constituted everything. The two were mutually dependent. As the saying went,"One Yin and one Yang is the Tao." During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the theories of the Hundred Schools of Thought were also based on the Tao of Yin and Yang. It could be said that Yin and Yang were the main source of Chinese culture.
In terms of origins, it was said that Fuxi was inspired by the sunrise and fall of the sun and the moon's waxing and waning. He saw the forces that pushed the sun to rise and set as two interacting forces. Because the sun was warm when it rose and the moon was cold when it came out, he called the sun Yang and the moon Yin. This was the earliest division of Yin and Yang. Later, he classified the outward expansion and active things such as the sky, the sun, the male, the big, the high, and the upper as yang, and the inward contraction and static things such as the earth, the moon, the female, the inner, the small, and the retreat as yin.
Yin and Yang were mutually opposed and inseparable. Yin alone could not grow, and Yang alone could not grow. It was like how men and women depended on each other for human reproduction. Yin and Yang also interacted with each other and changed at any time. However, this change was carried out under the circumstances of a large whole. For example, the sun rose and set in the east and west, the moon was gloomy and round, the sea tides rose and fell, the four seasons changed, and people were born, aged, sick, and dead.
In terms of attributes, Yang represented upward, active, positive, and external, while Yin represented downward, passive, negative, and introverted. The concept of yin and yang was also related to the concept of the five elements. The five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) circulated in all things, and their mutual promotion and restraint relationship had a certain logical connection with the mutual relationship of yin and yang. For example, in the mutual promotion of the five elements, water could produce wood, wood could produce fire, and so on. In the mutual restraint of the five elements, metal could restrain wood, wood could restrain earth, and so on. Under the mutual promotion and restraint of the five elements, the power of the five elements would change.
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