阴阳
yin-yang
太极图
taijitu
Chinese Concepts
Basic concept of Chinese religious and philosophical thought, understood as an order that governs and regulates the course of things, elaborated differently depending on the philosophical schools (Taoism and Confucianism). In Confucianism, it indicates the principles and the complex of ritual, ceremonial and ethical norms that regulate human existence and norms that regulate the universe (which is expressed through qi “energy” and li “order”). In Taoism, it represents the cosmic and universal way, present in the spontaneous manifestations of the world and nature. giving rise to the One, it triggers a process of infinite multiplication which, passing through the two complementary polarities of yin and yang, constitutes the matrix and the source from which all things proceed and to which they return.
tao
dao