Yin and Yang is a Chinese philosophy about balance. A balance of things. The balance or coming together of opposite forces is one way to think about the principle of Yin and Yang. In Chinese culture, Yin and Yang means that two opposites form part of a whole. They contradict each other but one cannot exist without the other. So, if you’re more yin inclined, you need to balance your energy with warmer foods, and vice versa if you’re yang inclined. Moreover, a healthy meal usually features dishes and ingredients with contrasting energies. This is the definition of a well-balanced diet in China. Traditional Chinese medicine, too, is based on the balance of yin and yang in the human body, and they believe that any disease is caused by a loss of balance. The body is divided into yin and yang parts. In general, the inner part of the body is yang and the outer part is yin, the back part is yang and the front part is yin. Mar 07, 2017 The concepts of Yin and Yang are important intellectual aspects of chinese philosophy and chinese culture and they form the foundation for understanding traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The earliest reference to Yin and Yang is approximately 700 centuries bce in an ancient text called I Ching or the book of changes.
By observing the cycle of the Sun, we can use a pole, post at right angles to the ground, and record the lengths of the shadow about every 15 days for a year. The shortest shadow is found on the day of Summer Solstice in China. The longest shadow is found on the day of Winter Solstice. The day of Winter Solstice has the least sunshine in the year. After Winter Solstice, the day will gain more sunshine each day till Summer Solstice. We can say Yang begins right after Winter Solstice and Yin begins right after Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere.
After recording 24 shadow lines, we move the lines into the diagram of six concentric circles with 24 sectors beginning from Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice. The length of each line will subtract the portion of the length of the Summer Solstice shadow line because we want to give Summer Solstice maximum Yang.
If the shadow of the pole is observed at the equator, then the length of the shadow on Summer Solstice should be near 0. China is in the northern hemisphere. The shadow of the pole always shows there on Summer Solstice in any city of China. To adjust the shadow to zero length on Summer Solstice is to adjust latitude to the equator.
From Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice, the shadow lines are drawn from the center of the circle to the boundary. From Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice, the shadow lines are drawn from circle boundary to the center, because ancient Chinese believed that Chi Energy goes different directions right after Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice.
The Deep Meaning Of Yin & Yang
Next, we can connect all the lines and dim the shadow lines (Yin) part, the Ying Yang symbol appears. .
Back to the Original Yin Yang Page - Where does the Chinese Yin Yang symbol come from? Revised Version in Chinese at www.worldofmastermind.com
Dr. Stefan Jaeger presented a mathematical description of the Yin-Yang symbol based on the daily sunshine hours throughout the year in the A Geomedical Approach to Chinese Medicine: The Origin of the Yin-Yang Symbol in 2011. To watch Dr. Stefan Jaeger's Yin-Yang Symbol: Mathematical Daylight Model and Video
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