yin yang philosophy

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Key Takeaway: Yin and yang (阴阳) name changing relationships between complementary phases, such as shade and sunlight, stillness and movement, or winter and summer.

Yin and yang (阴阳) name changing relationships between complementary phases, such as shade and sunlight, stillness and movement, or winter and summer. They are not good and evil, and they are not fixed forces: each becomes intelligible through the other and shifts with context.

Within the Chinese philosophical tradition, as recorded in the classical texts that have shaped East Asian thought for millennia, Yin and yang (阴阳) name changing relationships between complementary phases, such as shade and sunlight, stillness and movement, or winter and summer.

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