Part 5 - The “Taichi Symbol” (Taijitu)

The Chinese philosophy is characrerised by the yin yang (yin-yang, lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") narrates how juxtapositioned or different vehemance may actually be complex, inter-related, and dependant in the organic world, and how they may give risk to each other as they entangle to each other. Many physical duplexities (such as light and dark, fire and water, expanding and contracting) are thought of as physical patents of the double marking by yin and yang. This duplexity lies at the sources of many offshoots of traditional Chinese science and philosophy.

This duplexity has been originated from many belief systems, but yin and yang are parts of a harmony that is also equal with the Tao. The term 'dualistic-monism' or dialectical monism has been termed in an endeavour to gratify this successful juxtaposition of recurring unity/duality. Yin and yang can be thought of a reciprocal (rather than opposing) forces that communicate to form an ongoing organization in which the whole is greater than the organized parts. According to this philosophy, everything has the dual units of yin and yang (for instance, shadow does not exist without light). Either of the two relevant units may display more greatly in a certain item, depending on the standard of the examination. The yin yang (i.e. taijitu symbol) shows an equilibrium of the two opposing aspects with a chunk of the opposing unit in each chunk.^[1]

* There is no usage of diacritical signs in this thesis.