(yahng) The Tao School believes that everything contains opposite forces of yin and yang which are mutually exclusive, yet interdependent, e g female (yin) vs male (yang)
movement; purity; spring; the sun; the sage; male; weightless Compare with yin Yao Chi: Used interchangeably with wu-chi yin: stillness; impurity; autumn; the moon; the ordinary person; female; heavy Compare with yang
The male, active, positive force in Chinese philosophy, complementary to the Yin, which is the female, passive, negative force He is probably just named this for his Asian look and the fact he is male And just to make sure you know, Yin and Yang do NOT symbolize Evil and Good Actually, the Yin and Yang depend on each other -- Crono & Dekar
More active energy Some yang qualities are heat, dryness, movement, and an upward direction
The active, male cosmic principle in Chinese dualistic philosophy. the male principle in Chinese philosophy which is active, light, and positive, and which combines with yin (=the female principle) to influence everything in the world. Kuei yang Shen yang Yang Jian Yang Guang Yang ti Ou yang Hsiu Wang Yang ming Yang Hui Yang Chen Ning Frank Yang yin yang
The active aspect of reality that expresses itself in speech, light and heat The active aspect of reality that expresses itself in speech, light and heat
Creative energy, one aspect of the complimentary opposites in Chinese philosophy It reflects the more active, moving, warmer aspects; see also Yin
"Active" or "positive" In ying-yang theory, the positive aspect associated with what is described as centrifugal, expansive and extroversive
the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology; "yin and yang together produce everything that comes into existence
The Chinese concept of positive energy and forces in the universe and human body Acupuncture is believed to remove yang imbalances and bring the body into balance
literary name Qianguang flourished 1261-75, Qiantang, Zhejiang province, China Mathematician active in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the Southern Song dynasty. His books are among the few contemporary Chinese mathematics works to survive. A collected edition of his works (1378) was transmitted farther to the east, where it was particularly influential. In Korea it was reprinted during the reign of Sejong in 1433, and it was copied again by the Japanese mathematician Seki Takakazu
In East Asian thought, the two complementary forces or principles that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. Yin is earth, female, dark, passive, and absorbing; it is present in even numbers and in valleys and streams and is represented by the tiger, the colour orange, and a broken line. Yang is heaven, male, light, active, and penetrating; it is present in odd numbers and mountains and is represented by the dragon, the colour azure, and an unbroken line. Together they express the interdependence of opposites
known as Frank Yang born Sept. 22, 1922, Hofei, Anhwei, China Chinese-born U.S. theoretical physicist. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1945 and studied with Edward Teller at the University of Chicago. He showed that parity is violated when elementary particles decay. This and other work in particle physics earned him and Tsung-Dao Lee (b. 1926) a 1957 Nobel Prize. His research focused mostly on interactions involving the weak force among elementary particles. He also worked in statistical mechanics
Part of Chinese Taoism or philosophy These are inseparable components of a single reality Yin is the passive element and so regulates or inhibits or resists through its constancy Yang is the active component that generates and outpours The sun is a good example of yang expression The earth that absorbs this energy is yin [2: see compatibility]
Yin is still, Yang moves Yin is cold, Yang is hot Yin is solid, Yang is active Yin is inside, Yang is outside These ideas help to understand a diagnosis and treatment in Traditional Chinese Medicine
A dualistic philosophy of passive and active, good and bad, light and dark, positive and negative, male and female, etc , and that they are in opposition, each is part of the whole and works together
the ancient Chinese philosophy which is based on the idea that everything in the universe is formed and influenced by the combination of two forces called yin and yang
Represented in one of the most widely-known symbols from Chinese culture, the concept of Yin and Yang lies at the heart of most of the arts of Kung Fu Represented as a circle divided between a dark half and a light, the Taiji symbol represents two mutually complementary forces in nature: Yin, the force characterized as dark, cold, stillness, passiveness and potential; and Yang, the force characterized as light, warmth, action, agressiveness and expression
In East Asian thought, the two complementary forces or principles that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. Yin is earth, female, dark, passive, and absorbing; it is present in even numbers and in valleys and streams and is represented by the tiger, the colour orange, and a broken line. Yang is heaven, male, light, active, and penetrating; it is present in odd numbers and mountains and is represented by the dragon, the colour azure, and an unbroken line. Together they express the interdependence of opposites