{"id":4407,"date":"2020-05-30T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/?post_type=encyclopedia&#038;p=4407"},"modified":"2020-05-30T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T16:13:42","slug":"taiji-symbol","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/taiji-symbol","title":{"rendered":"Taiji symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yinyang.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\">The T&agrave;ij&iacute; symbol shows how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yin-and-yang\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yin und Yang are central concepts of Chinese philosophy, especially Daoism, which applies this dualism to everything. According to Daoism Yin and Yang are fundamental aspects of reality, simultaneouly interdependent and complementary to each other, rhythmically alternating during the course of life.\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Yin and Yang<\/a> blend into each other: when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yang\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yang was initially symbolized by the warmer, southern side of the mountain, a sunny bank, later the mountain as a whole. Subsequently Yang represented everything including light and bright day, summer and sun. Also dryness, air (wind) and fire were assigned to Yang, as well as increasingly warm days of spring, the warmer season's flourishing&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Yang<\/a> reaches its greatest abundance it already contains the seed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/glossar\/yin\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Yin originally referred to the colder north side of a mountain, the shaded river bank or the darker, cooler south side of a valley. Later on Yin was associated with the idea of days with cool weather and overcast skies, with shadows and all that is dark, cool and humid, with water and earth, night&hellip;\" class=\"encyclopedia\">Yin<\/a> &ndash; and vice versa. Any human action should ultimately aim at (re)establishing of the balance of Yin and Yang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The T\u00e0ij\u00ed symbol shows how Yin and Yang blend into each other: when Yang reaches its greatest abundance it already contains the seed of Yin &#8211; and vice versa. Any human action should ultimately aim at (re)establishing of the balance of Yin and Yang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","class_list":["post-4407","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no2do.com\/synopse\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}