Yin and Yang in Chinese Culture

(1). Refers to the north and south sides of a hill. Poetry - Daya - Gong Liu: "Phase its yin and yang, view its flowing spring." Song Ye Shi "Drunken Music Pavilion Records": "Yongjia more big mountains, in the state west of the only fine and show, ten or so paces within the arch for themselves at every turn, high and not towering, under the condensed, yin and yang attached to, to the back to the mood."

(2). Specifically refers to the north of the North River Star and the south of the South River Star. Historical Records - Book of Heavenly Officials: "The line north and south river, to the words of yin and yang, drought and water soldiers lost." Zhang Shoujie (张守节) 正义:"South River three stars, North River three stars, if the moon travels north of the river to the yin, then water, soldiers; south of the river to the yang, then drought, mourning also."

(3). In ancient times, it refers to the two major opposites of the universe through matter and personnel. Refers to the two qi between heaven and earth that produce all things. Yi - Departmental Rhetoric: "The unpredictability of yin and yang is called God." New Book of Tang - Eunuchs' Biographies - Fish Chaoen: "Yin and Yang are not in harmony, and the five grains are in great abundance." The Dream of the Red Chamber, the third time: "Heaven and earth are endowed with two qi born of yin and yang."

(4). Heaven and earth. Rites of Passage - Suburbia Special Adoption: "Music from the sun also, rituals by the author of the yin, yin and yang and all things get." Kong Yingda (孔颖达) 疏:"和,犹合也,得谓各得其所也,若礼乐由於天地,天地与之和合则万物得其所也。" Sun Xidan: "Music is made by heaven, so it belongs to the yang; rites are made by the earth, so it belongs to the yin; yin and yang and then all things will get it; rites and music and then all things will be smooth." Tang Xuanzong 《春晚宴两相学士探得风字》:"Yin and yang adjust the calendar, ritual and music report the Xuan dome." Song Fan Chengda (宋 范成大)《民病春疫作诗悯之》:"阴阳何者强作孽,天地岂其真其真其不心?" Qing Dynasty Li Yu, "The Mirage in the Tower - Dedication of Life": "The dark clouds are mixed with yin and yang, and the drought drought is gone and the monsters and demons are hiding in chaos."

(5). Sun and moon. Tang Du Fu, "Pavilion Night" poem: "The yin and yang at the end of the year urges the short scene, the end of the day frost and snow clear cold night." Song Su Zhe "winter solstice" poem: "Yin and Yang lift from each other to urge, teeth hair who taught the old not back?"

(6). Day and night. Rituals: "The sun rises in the east, the moon in the west, the length of the yin and the yang, the end and the beginning."

(6)(c) Kong Yingda (孔颖达) 疏:"Yin means night, and yang means day. In summer, the yang is long and the yin is short; in winter, the yang is short and the yin is long." Guoyu-Zhou Yishang: "Yin and Yang are distributed, and the vibration and thunder come out of stagnation." Wei Zhao Note: "Yin and Yang distribution, day and night are the same. Stagnation, stinging insects. Mingtang "moon order" said: 'day and night, thunder is sound.'" Han Yang Xiong "Taixuan - 攡": "a day and night, yin and yang divided. Night Road is extremely Yin, day Road is extremely Yang."

(7). Heat and cold. Chu Rhetoric - Nine Defense: "The four seasons come and die years, yin and yang can not be with the Likai." Wang Yi Note: "Cold and summer, difficult to chase." Tang Liu Zongyuan, "Heavenly Sayings": "Cold and hot, the world is called yin and yang."

(8). Spring and summer and fall and winter. 《文选-古诗〈驱车上东门>》:"Hao hao yin and yang are shifted, and the life of the year is like the morning dew." Li Shan Note: "Shennong Ben Cao said: 'Spring and summer are Yang, fall and winter are Yin.'"

(9). Thunder and lightning with rain and snow. Gu Liang Zhuan - Hidden Duke nine years ":" March, dibutyl, heavy rain shock electricity. Zhen, thunder; electricity, thunder. Geng Chen, heavy rain and snow, Zhi Fu number also. Between eight days, and then there is a big change, yin and yang wrong line, so rigorous and day." Fan Ning Note: "Liu Xiang Yun: Lei can not be out, electricity can not be seen, thunder and lightning both out to see, the snow is not appropriate to come down again. All out of order. Thunder and lightning, Yang; rain and snow, Yin. Thunder out of its time, is the sun can not close the Yin, the Yin gas to escape and will be harmful."

(10). Junchen. Chu Rhetoric - Nine Chapters - Shibu Jiang: "Yin and Yang change their positions, the time is not right." Wang Yi Note: "Yin, minister. Yang, the ruler." Hong Xingzu supplementary note: "Yin and yang are easy to say that the ruler is weak and the minister is strong."

(11). Couple. Rituals - Suburb Special Adoption: "Xuan Coronet Qi precepts, ghosts and gods yin and yang also." Kong Yingda 疏:"'鬼神阴阳也'者, yin and yang means couple. With the sacrificial garments and the Qi ring to welcome, is to honor the couple's way as the ghosts and gods, so the cloud 'ghosts and gods yin and yang'."

(12). Men and women. Song Gao Cheng "things Jiyuan - heaven and earth plant - yin and yang": "The Spring and Autumn Annals" said: 'Fuxi's set heaven and earth, divided into yin and yang.'" Ming 归有光 《贞女论》:"Yin and Yang spouse, the great righteousness of heaven and earth." Ming Cheng Yuwen "mandarin ducks ultimatum": "I do not know the world of yin and yang of the contract, there is a loving Division President, the chief of the number of dense ambassadors, the number of meditative when the merger, must be mandarin ducks ultimatum was made."

(13). Refers to the genitals of men and women. The Ming law - brawl ":" If the broken human tongue and destroy human yin and yang and cane one hundred, flow three thousand miles, will still be half of the prisoner's property to pay the injured and sick people to support."

(14). Law Lü. Zhou Li - spring official - master ":" Palm six law six the same, in order to combine the sound of yin and yang, yang sound: yellow bell, big nest, Gushue, lemonade, razor, Wu shot. Yin sound: dalu, Ying Zhong, Nanlv, Huan Zhong, Xiaolv, and Jie Zhong." According to the yang for the law, the yin for the lü. Han Jia Yi "New Book - Six Arts": "The way of sound to six for the first, to the section of yin and yang for the degree ...... is the sound of the instrument twelve bells, bells when January, its six bells yin sound, six bells yang sound."

(15). Parity. Han Ban Gu "Baihu Tong - marriage": "Seven-year-old Yang also, eight-year-old Yin also, seven eighty-five, the number of yin and yang ready."

(16). Moves and Static. Da Dai Li Ji - Wen Wang official: "Examining its yin and yang, in order to observe its sincerity." Lu Wei Note: "Yin main static, Yang active, the examination of its yin and yang, to check its movement and static."

(17). Open and close. Hou Han Shu - Ban Gu biography: "Open a thousand doors and set up ten thousand households, and follow the yin and yang to open and close." Li Xian Note: "The former book said, Jianzhang Palace degree for a thousand doors and ten thousand households. Closed is called the yin, open is called the yang. The "Yi" said: 'closing the door is called Kun, open the door is called Qian.'"

(18). Depending on the contrary to the back. East Zhou Lieguo Zhi" seventh two: "Zheng yin and yang between Jin and Chu, its heart is not sure, not a day." The Ming History - Zhongyi Biography V - Lu Shiren: "Luoyang then international encounter, Ru Ning then Shen Wandeng, Nanyang then Liu Hongqi brothers, each with tens of thousands of people, and all the small fortresses are returned to it. Or attached to the thief, or by the order of the dynasty, the yin and yang watch."

(19). The earth and the netherworld. Tang Sunlight Tang's wife Zhang's "answer to the husband poem" one: "Yin and Yang in vain, gathering and dispersing two difficult heart." Inscription: "Jinchang, Tang Sun, married his aunt, Zhang, who was quite virtuous. In the 18th year of the Kaiyuan era, 晅 went to Luoyang, and his wife died in Weinanzhuang. After a few years, to return, tracing the traces, poems and sadness, suddenly saw Zhang's front to ...... light of the sun to give Zhang's poem, which also cracked with the title poem to answer."

20. death and life, life and death. Chu Rhetoric - Nine Songs - Dasiwei: "Ride the clear air Ruoyi yin and yang." Wang Yi Note: "Yin main kill, Yang main life. It is said that the Secretary always rides on the clear air of the sky and guards the life and death of all the people."

21. In ancient times, it referred to the study of the laws governing the operation of the sun, the moon and other celestial bodies. Houhanshu - Zhang Heng biography: "Heng good mechanics, especially in astronomy, yin and yang, calendar figure." Tang Han Yu 《襄阳卢丞墓志铭》:"Yin-yang star calendar, recent Confucianism is not learned."

22. It refers to those who are responsible for studying the laws of the sun, moon and other celestial bodies. Tang Han Yu "Shunzong real record a": "Jing Wu, strike Hanlin, yin and yang, star divination, medical phase, over the Acer to be thirty-two people." 23. Referring to the astrological, divination, house and grave techniques. Zhao Shuli 《小二黑结婚》一:"Two Zhuge was originally called Liu Xiude, and had done business in those years, and had to discuss yin and yang gossip and take a look at the ecliptic and the black road." 24. Refers to people who specialize in astrology, divination, phase house, and phase tomb magic. The Journey to the West, the second three times: "But just in a hurry, did not invite a yin and yang, worship and spread the account." The Fourth Episode of The Outer History of the Confucian Forests: "The next day, Mr. Xu, the yin-yang, was invited to write seven bills." 康濯 《春种秋收-三面宝镜》:"[Wang Laodian] in his early years was a yin and yang gentleman who looked at the earth's pulse and said feng shui, and people called him 'yin and yang'." 25. Referring to the intercourse between men and women. Taiping Yuban (《太平御览》卷三六○引南 宋劉义庆《幽明录》:"谯郡 胡馥之,娶妇 李氏,十余年无子,而妇卒。 He wept and mourned, saying: 'I have no body left, and I have lost it, how cruel is that? The woman suddenly got up and sat down and said: 'I feel your grief, I am not going to die, you can close your eyes and then see, according to the yin and yang of the time of his life, when he gave birth to a man for you.' After the words still lying."

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