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His breath became the wind his voice the thunder his left eye the sun and his right eye the moon his body became the mountains and extremes of the world his blood formed rivers his muscles the fertile lands his facial hair the stars and milky way his fur the bushes and forests his bones the valuable minerals his bone marrow sacred diamonds his sweat fell as rain and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became human beings all over the world. In this task Pangu was aided by the four most prominent beasts, namely the Turtle, the Qilin, the Phoenix, and the Dragon.Īfter the eighteen thousand years had elapsed, Pangu was laid to rest. This took him eighteen thousand years as well, each day the sky grew ten feet higher, the Earth ten feet wider, and Pangu ten feet taller. To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the Sky. Pangu set about the task of creating the world: he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the Earth (dark Yin) and the Sky (bright Yang). Within it, the perfectly opposed principles of yin and yang became balanced and Pangu, emerged from the egg.
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The chaos began to coalesce into a cosmic egg for eighteen thousand years. In the beginning there was nothing in the universe except a formless chaos. Shown around the circumference are the eight trigrams ( bagua), which in this case represent different stages in the cycles of increase and decrease of Yin and Yang (clockwise from the lower left corner: zhen, li, dui, qian, sun, kan, gen, and kun). The two inner dots represent Yin within Yang and Yang within Yin.
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Image source: Stanford University - Department of Religious Studies This allows an almost endless scale of universally defined qualities, which is foundational to classical Chinese thought. Yin - Yang are divided into their respective Yin - Yang aspects, yielding four combinations: Yin of the Yin, and Yang of the Yin, and Yin of the Yang, and Yang of the Yang. Yin and Yang are the basic idea from which the bagua (ba- eight, gua- area) and the trigrams and hexagrams were developed. The Yin - Yang Theory is an important principle in Taoism. Yang characteristics: active, positive, brightness, heaven, south slope, sunshine, fire, hardness, male, dryness, day-time, upward seeking, restless, producing, hot, even numbers, and dominant aspects of things. Yin characteristics: passive, negative, darkness, earth, north slope, cloudy, water, softness, female, moisture, night-time, downward seeking, slowness, consuming, cold, odd numbers, and docile aspects of things. As one aspect declines, the other increases to an equal degree.Īll forces in the universe can be classified as yin or yang. The yin-yang aspects are in dynamic equilibrium. The maximum effect of one quality will be followed by the transition toward the opposing quality. The yin-yang elements or energies are constantly moving and influencing each other. Both of the forces are different, but in the best way, they mutually complement each other. The basic idea of the ‘yin- yang theory’ consists of two natural, complementary and contradictory forces in our universe, the principle of opposite polarity and duality. _ Yin - Yang, Two Symbols Yin - Yang (Chinese: 陰陽 pinyin: yīn yáng). Home Earth Continents Asia Thailand / China Chinese New Year Photos Chinese Customs and Traditions Glossary Yin - Yang