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  2. Taijitu - Wikipedia

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    The alternation and combination of yang and yin generate water, fire, wood, metal, and earth. With these five [phases of] qi harmoniously arranged, the Four Seasons proceed through them. The Five Phases are simply yin and yang; yin and yang are simply the Supreme Polarity; the Supreme Polarity is fundamentally Non-polar. [Yet] in the generation ...

  3. Yin and yang - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Taegeuk - Wikipedia

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    The taegeuk is a Taoist icon which symbolizes cosmic balance, and represents the constant interaction between the yin and yang, also known as eum/yang (Korean: 음양; Hanja: 陰陽). [ 15 ] [ 14 ] The taegeuk symbol used on the flag originated from the Chinese Confucian classic known as The Book of Changes (also known as I Ching or Yijing ), a ...

  5. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The taijitu uses black and white or red to represent the unity of yin and yang. Ancient Chinese people regarded black as the king of colors and honored black more consistently than any other color. Laozi said "know the white, keep the black", and Taoists believe black is the color of the Tao. [citation needed]

  6. Flag of South Korea - Wikipedia

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    The circle in the flag's center symbolizes harmony in the world. Derived from the Chinese I Ching and Taiji (philosophy), known in the west as the Yin and Yang, the blue half represents negative energy (Yin), and the red half represents the positive energy (Yang). Together, the trigrams [b] represent movement and harmony as fundamental principles.

  7. Three Pure Ones - Wikipedia

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    From the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching, it was held that "The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things."It is generally agreed by Taoist scholars that Tao produced One means Wuji produced Taiji, and One produced Two means Taiji produced Yin and Yang [or Liangyi (兩儀) in scholastic terms].

  8. Animal styles in Chinese martial arts - Wikipedia

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    The ultimate yin and yang expressed by breathing in (kidneys) and breathing out (lungs) connects these two organs to regulate xue and assist the heart. The rhythm created by the up and down movement of the body, the opening and closing of the arms (lung and large intestine channels) and the in and out breath helps us adapt to the rhythmical ...

  9. List of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber characters

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    Yin Yewang (殷野王; Yīn Yěwáng) is Yin Tianzheng's son and Yin Susu's elder brother. He is also Yin Li's father and Zhang Wuji's maternal uncle. His first wife (Yin Li's mother) practised the Thousand Spiders Venom Hand, became infertile and disfigured, and fell out of her husband's favour. Yin Yewang then took a concubine who bore him ...