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The symbol is a visual depiction of the intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in w:Taoism. It is believed to be derived from the 14 th century Tiandi Zhiran Hetu (Heaven and Earth’s Natural Diagram of the River), Hetu (Diagram of River), Luoshu (Chart of Luo), Xiantian tu (Diagram of Preceding Heaven) and Taijitu ...
English: Taijitu ☯ (Yin Yang / Taoist symbol) Clockwise (Small - 16x16px Icon size) for Inline use - (Large image scales to invisible lines for inline size) Date:
It is a symbol that reflects the inescapably intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in Taoism. No quality is independent of its opposite, nor so pure that it does not contain its opposite in a diminished form: these concepts are depicted by the vague division between black and white, the flowing boundary between the two ...
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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.
"Yin, Yang, & Yuan" diagram: 3 symmetrical ☯-style "swirl" sections — light purple, dark purple, & blue, each section featuring a inside — blue, lime green, & red respectively; a purple-blue gradient ring surrounds, & a yellow 🟂 sits in the center