Does black represent yin or white represents yin in Taiji Yin-Yang diagram?

In Taiji diagram, black represents yin and white represents yang.

Tai Chi Map is said to have been published by Chen Tuan, a Taoist priest in the Song Dynasty. Chen Tuan was a Taoist from the Five Dynasties to the early Song Dynasty, and he had profound attainments in Taoist thought and Yi-ology. According to historical records, Chen Tuan once passed Taiji Map, Eight Diagrams Map, River Map and Luoshu to his students for planting, and passed them to Mu Xiu and others respectively. Later, Mu Xiu passed the Tai Chi map to Zhou Dunyi. Zhou Dunyi explained it in Taiji Illustration. The Tai Chi map we are seeing now is the biography of Zhou Dunyi.

Traditionally, Yin and Yang represent the most basic opposition of all things. It is the objective law of nature, the origin of the movement and change of all things, and the basic law of human understanding of things.

The concept of Yin and Yang originated from the view of nature of ancient people in China. The ancients summed up the concept of yin and yang in a philosophical way by observing various opposing and related natural phenomena in nature, such as heaven and earth, sun and moon, day and night, cold and heat, men and women, up and down, etc.

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Yin and Yang are the descriptions of the basic factors hidden behind the laws of nature and promoting the development and changes of the laws of nature in ancient China. They are the motive force for the gestation, development, maturity, decline and even extinction of all kinds of things, and are the core elements to lay the foundation of logical thinking of Chinese civilization. Generally speaking, according to Yi-ology, it describes the most basic elements of the universe and their functions, which is one of Fu's basic concepts.

On the earth, the remarkable performance of yin and yang is the influence of the sun and the moon on the earth. This is because the earth's own motion shows two kinds of motion: relative motion with the sun and relative motion with the moon. The two movements are unified in the earth movement, forming an inseparable comprehensive influence of yin and yang on the research object. There is yin in the yang, and there is yang in the yin, which is inseparable.

Yin and Yang are also the pictures of China's cultural roots-the theoretical basis of Hetu, Luoshu and Fu Sheng's 64 hexagrams. Simply put, from the origin, Chinese civilization was gradually established and developed from the basic element of Yin and Yang. After a long-term in-depth understanding of Yin and Yang, the theory of Yin and Yang in China's ancient philosophy was formed, and a series of knowledge of Yin and Yang covering various fields was extended from the perspective of application, including philosophy, natural science, social science, life science and spiritual science.

Everything has yin and yang, which are inseparable. Yin and Yang must depend on each other, and everything contains the characteristics of Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang, computer binary 0 and 1, 0 is Yin, 1 is Yang.

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