In Chinese mythology yin and yang were born from chaos when the universe was first created and they are believed to exist in harmony at the centre of the Earth. In Chinese mythology yin and yang were born from chaos when the universe was first created. Yang may also be represented by the dragon, the colour blue and a solid line trigram.
Yang reaches it’s height of influence with the summer solstice. Yang is masculine, white, light, south, fire (creativity), active, sun (strength and the god Xihe), heaven, warm, young, odd numbers, mountains, rich, hard, and provides form to all things. Yin may also be represented by the tiger, the colour orange and a broken line in the trigrams of the I Ching (or Book of Changes). Yin reaches it’s height of influence with the winter solstice. Yin is feminine, black, dark, north, water (transformation), passive, moon (weakness and the goddess Changxi), earth, cold, old, even numbers, valleys, poor, soft, and provides spirit to all things. The principal proponent of the theory was the cosmologist Zou Yan (or Tsou Yen) who believed that life went through five phases ( wuxing) - fire, water, metal, wood, earth - which continuously interchanged according to the principle of yin and yang. The concept of yin and yang became popular with the work of the Chinese school of Yinyang which studied philosophy and cosmology in the 3rd century BCE.
Neither pole is superior to the other and, as an increase in one brings a corresponding decrease in the other, a correct balance between the two poles must be reached in order to achieve harmony. The two opposites attract and complement each other and, as their symbol illustrates, each side has at its core an element of the other (represented by the small dots).
This principle is that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites, for example female-male, dark-light and old-young. The principle of Yin and Yang is a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy and culture in general dating from the third century BCE or even earlier.
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