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Chinese cardinal and intermediary colors. Chinese culture attaches certain values to colors, [1] such as considering some to be auspicious (吉利) or inauspicious (不利). The Chinese word for 'color' is yánsè (顏色). In Literary Chinese, the character 色 more literally corresponds to 'color in the face' or 'emotion'. It was generally ...
Traditional Chinese visual design elements: their applicability in contemporary Chinese design (Master of Science in Design thesis). Arizona State University. Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2012). Chinese art : a guide to motifs and visual imagery. Boston, US: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-0689-5. OCLC 893707208. Williams, Charles (2006).
Wuxing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), [a] usually translated as Five Phases or Five Agents, [2] is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many traditional Chinese fields of study to explain a wide array of phenomena, including cosmic cycles, the interactions between internal organs, the succession of political regimes, and the properties of ...
內經圖, Neijing tu color image; 氣功與內經圖, Qigong and Neijing tu (in Chinese) Neijing Tu, clickable image details, The Art Institute of Chicago; Explanation of the Inner Alchemy Chart, Universal Tao Center; Inner Landscape of Human's Body/Nei Jing Tu, DaMo Qigong; Neijing tu (Chart of the Inner Warp), from the Golden Elixir website
Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.
Chinese astrology has a close relation with Chinese philosophy (theory of the three harmonies: heaven, earth, and human), and uses the principles of yin and yang, wuxing (five phases), the ten Heavenly Stems, the twelve Earthly Branches, the lunisolar calendar (moon calendar and sun calendar), and the time calculation after year, month, day ...
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彩色修真图, color version Xiuzhen tu (in Chinese) 武當丹脈密傳修真圖, Wudangquan version Xiuzhen tu (in Chinese) 修真图, GIF image Xiuzhen tu (in Chinese) 氣功與修真圖, Qigong and Xiuzhen tu, Taoist Culture and Information Centre (in Chinese) Xiuzhen tu (Chart for the Cultivation of Reality), from the Golden Elixir website