Third, talk about yin and yang thoroughly
Yin and yang is also the most controversial concept in Chinese culture, because yin and yang are probably flooded, there are yin and yang everywhere, and fortune tellers who look at feng shui are also called Mr. Yin and Yang, so when it comes to yin and yang, everyone thinks that it is feudal superstition. But yin and yang are the basis of easy learning, just as binary 0s and 1s are the foundations of computer science, yin and yang are going to fall into feudal superstitions, and the I Ching cannot escape feudal superstitions.
This may be what Confucius said about easy loss, so to talk through the easy, we must first talk through yin and yang, unveil the feudal superstition veil of yin and yang, and return yin and yang to innocence.
Yin and yang is also one of the earliest concepts in Chinese culture, to talk about yin and yang thoroughly, it is also necessary to start from the source, starting from the original meaning of yin and yang, first look at the oracle of yin and yang.
The oracle of the yang means: the slope of the sun shines, there is sunlight. Yin has no oracle bones, only gold text, yin's golden text means: cloudy, sunlight is blocked by clouds, there is no sunlight. This is the original meaning of yin and yang, and it is also the definition of yin and yang.
The original meaning of yin and yang is an abstract concept, yin and yang have become a category concept after deduction, yin and yang are two symbiotic concepts, a certain yang must be relative to a certain yin concept, and a certain yin is also relative to a certain yang concept. Yang is the concept of sunshine, warmth, rising, outward, existence, etc. as opposed to a certain yin, and yin is those that are opposite to a certain yang, without sunlight, cold, falling, inward, non-existent, etc.
For example, what has sunshine is yang, what is not sunshine is yin; what is hot is yang, and what is cold is yin; but yin and yang cannot be discussed together with cold, because they are not a category and cannot cross the yin and yang.
Yin and yang symbolization
Then symbolize yin and yang, use a horizontal painting to represent yang, and name this horizontal painting as yang, use a broken horizontal painting, two short horizontal paintings side by side to represent yin, and name the combination of these two short horizontal paintings as yin.
Let's look at the yin and yang in the Tai Chi diagram.
The yin and yang of the Tai Chi diagram
In addition to the two instruments of tai chi yin and yang, the tai chi diagram also shows the relationship between abstract yin and yang and yin, the blank area in the tai chi diagram represents the yang, the shadow area represents the yin, the amount of yang on the left side is enhanced, the amount of yin is weakened, the amount of yin on the right side is enhanced, and the amount of yang is weakened. From this, we can see the relationship between yin and yang: one after the other, interdependence, which is also the principle of complementarity that Bohr said.
The categorized abstract yin and yang can express other things and phenomena.
Day and night, there is sunshine during the day, warmer than night, night has no sunlight, cooler than daytime, so, day is yang, night is yin.
The sun and the moon, the sun and the moon are the two celestial bodies that have the greatest impact on the earth, the sun emits light, active, the moon does not emit light, just reflects the sun's light, is passive, so the sun is yang, the moon is yin.
Male and female, a man and a woman marry to form a family, male cultivators and female weavers, men are outside, women are inside, so men are yang and women are yin.
Shannan and shanbei, the continent is located in the northern hemisphere, the direct sun is in the south of the continent, so the southern slope of the mountain can shine the sun, the northern slope can not illuminate the sun, then the south of the mountain is yang, and the north of the mountain is yin.
Spring, summer and autumn and winter, spring and summer, the day time is getting longer and longer, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, autumn and winter are two seasons, the daytime time is getting shorter and shorter, the weather is getting colder, spring and summer are yang, autumn and winter are yin.
Bull and bear markets, the securities market, the index long-term rise into the bull market, the index long-term decline into the bear market, the bull market is yang, the bear market is yin.
Nucleic acid test results, there is a new crown virus, indicating that the virus exists, is yang, no new crown virus, indicating that the virus does not exist, is yin.
According to the definition of yin and yang, countless yin and yang can also be enumerated, so it feels that yin and yang have been abused. When it is practical to use yin and yang, it is named according to the principle of yin and yang, such as accounting for the test results, whether it is based on existence or non-existence to distinguish yin and yang, existence is yang, non-existence is yin, is there feudal superstition here? Obviously, there is no, behind the yin and yang is the corresponding to this fact, the amount of the new crown virus, if the amount of the new crown virus is greater than zero, it means existence, equal to zero means non-existence.
There is no separate existence of yin and yang, when talking about yin and yang, there must be a specific concept of existence, and the existing concept is described by yin and yang, and the target concept is described from another angle, so that the image of the target concept is more full. For example, day is yang, night is yin, day and night are the real names of two periods of the day, and yin and yang are a class name.
The world is so wonderful and regular, which is why the application of yin and yang is so extensive.
In this way, the yin and yang should be thoroughly explained.