popular symbol depicted on many souvenirs, looks like a circle divided into two winding line symmetrically arranged equal parts.Inside each of them also has a circle, meaning the eyes of a creature whose contours are limited to the outer semicircle and wave.Painted half circle in a contrasting color.What is the yin-yang, the image of which has become fashionable in recent years to decorate the most unexpected things and put it on his own body as a tattoo?Does this character to resist the worldly misfortunes?
Some people take it for some talisman, an amulet and hang the picture in the house behind the windscreen of the car or worn around the neck as a medallion, saying: "Yin-Yang, save me."No, not that invented in ancient China, this symbol, it is, rather, a kind of visual scheme to help better understand the essence of the world around us.
Hegel's philosophy, criticized by Marx and the accusation that it all turned upside down, uses the concept of "unity and struggle of opposites."Any magnet and our entire planet has two poles.Living creatures are divided into two sexes.The concept of good and evil as dualistic.There is light and there is darkness.From time to time with a certain frequency is replaced by each of the opposite sides.That means that the yin-yang, so simple at first glance graphic reflection of the unity of opposites.
All religions in their theories about the creation of the world are based on the original holistic chaos preceding the creation of the universe, and scientists in his research in solidarity with theosophy.With decreasing entropy of the universe was divided into two half compensate each other, each of which is peaking in its development, gave way to another.Dappled eyes symbolize the presence within each of the opposite sides of the nucleus of the coming changes, a precursor phase shift path called the "Tao."
energy flow (Qi) from one half of the circle to the other as it unites these two mutually integral parts, creating a whole.Trying to understand that because of the word "yin-yang", should be divided into two parts.Black symbolizes the feminine yin, yang white - male.Yin is intuitive, logical and yang.Yin - is death and yang - life.The north and the south, cold and heat, plus and minus - that is the yin-yang.
Philosophical meaning of this character is so profound that it is in itself rejects the accusation against Marx, Hegel's dialectic.You can not turn the wrong thing, having two heads and two tails, any provision of this scheme can be considered correct.
universal harmony and balance of natural forces - that is the yin-yang.This concept is universal in its application, it is possible to describe and state structure, and a system of proper nutrition.It has a social, and physical and chemical sense.
ancient Chinese treatise "I Ching", also called "Book of Changes", treats the yin-yang as two sides of the same mountain, which is one, but consists of two slopes, alternately illuminated by sunlight.
