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English: This is the Taijitu (太極圖), with black representing yin and white representing yang.It is a symbol that reflects the inescapably intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in Taoism.
English: The Yin and Yang symbol with white representing Yang and black representing Yin. The symbol is a visual depiction of the intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in w:Taoism .
The Chinese classic Book of Rites mentions the Vermillion Bird, Black Tortoise (Dark Warrior), Azure Dragon, and White Tiger as heraldic animals on war flags; [3] they were the names of asterisms associated with the four cardinal directions: South, North, East, and West, respectively.
Yin is the black side, and yang is the white side. Other color arrangements have included the white of yang being replaced by red. [29] The taijitu is sometimes accompanied by other shapes, [30] such as bagua. [29] [30] The relationship between yin and yang is often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain and a valley. Yin ...
In its conventional orientation, the hot, bright, white yang nature rises while the cold, dark, black yin nature descends. Taoist esoterics often invert the symbol because they believe in this configuration the heat from the yang will be able to cook the jing in the yin producing qi which leads toward longer life and immortality.
Day and night are personified as deities in various mythologies (e.g. Norse Dagr and Nótt, Greek Hemera and Nyx, et cetera). Yin-yang; Illiyin is the highest place and the resting place for the good souls among the highest angels, opposed to Sijjin, the farest underworld and resting place for the evil souls among the fallen angel; Islamic ...
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