What is the Meaning of Yin and Yang in Chinese Culture?
On Tuesday, the stock markets continued a significant rise.
The Dow Jones Industrial gained 0.38% to 33,052.87 points.
The market-wide S&P 500 gained 0.65% and ended the trading day at 4193.80 points.
The technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 closed with a gain of 0.52% at 14,409.78 points.
Among the day's winners were shares of GE Healthcare, which rose 5.4% after the financial results were presented.
According to an analyst at UBS, the medical technology manufacturer is more profitable than expected.
The interim report from the Pinterest platform, which specializes in photos, was a pleasant surprise.
Bank of America then recommended buying the shares, resulting in a 19% jump in price.
The shares of the semiconductor developer Wolfspeed also rose sharply with an increase of 22.1%.
The good quarterly report was a welcome change after the recent bad news from the chip sector.
Shares in General Motors were also among the winners and rose by 3.1%.
The news of the settlement of the dispute by the US auto union UAW after the agreement on a wage increase of 25% created a good mood.
The Japanese leading index Nikkei 225 increased by 2.36%, and the broad Topix is also clearly up at 2.53%.
The Shanghai Composite gained 0.24%.
The Korean leading index Kospi gains 1.03%.
The Meaning of Yin and Yang
Meaning, Origins, and Uses of Yin and Yang in Chinese Culture
Yin and yang is a complex relational concept in Chinese culture that has developed over thousands of years.
Briefly put, the meaning of yin and yang is that the universe is governed by a cosmic duality, sets of two opposing and complementing principles or cosmic energies that can be observed in nature.
Yin-Yang
Generally speaking, yin is characterized as an inward energy that is feminine, still, dark, and negative.
On the other hand, yang is characterized as outward energy, masculine, hot, bright, and positive.?
A Subtle and Cosmic Duality
Yin and yang elements come in pairs—such as the moon and the sun, female and male, dark and bright, cold and hot, passive and active, and so on—but note that yin and yang are not static or mutually exclusive terms.
While the world is composed of many different, sometimes opposing, forces, these can coexist and even complement each other.
Sometimes, forces opposite in nature even rely on one another to exist.
The nature of yin-yang lies in the interchange and interplay of the two components.
The alternation of day and night is just such an example: there cannot be a shadow without light.?
The balance of yin and yang is important.
If yin is stronger, yang will be weaker, and vice versa.
Yin and yang can interchange under certain conditions so that they are usually not yin and yang alone. In other words, yin elements can contain certain parts of yang, and yang can have some components of yin.
This balance of yin and yang is perceived to exist in everything.
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The Yin Yang Symbol?
The yin-yang symbol, also known as the Tai Chi symbol, consists of a circle divided into two halves by a curved line.
One half of the circle is black, typically representing the yin side; the other is white, for the yang side.
A dot of each color is situated near the center of the other's half.
The two halves are thus intertwining across a spiral-like curve that splits the whole into semicircles, and the small dots represent the idea that both sides carry the seed of the other.?
The white dot in the black area and the black dot in the white area connote coexistence and unity of opposites to form a whole.
The curvy line signifies that there are no absolute separations between the two opposites.
The yin-yang symbol, then, embodies both sides: duality, paradox, unity in diversity, change, and harmony.
Origin of Yin-Yang?
The concept of yin-yang has a long history.
There are many written records about yin and yang, some dating back to the Yin dynasty (about 1400–1100 BCE) and the Western Zhou dynasty (1100–771 BCE).
The oldest records of the yin-yang principle are found in the Zhouyi, also called the I Ching or Book of Changes, which was written by King Wen in the 9th century BCE during the Western Zhou dynasty .
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