Yang and Yin

The concepts of Yang and Yin are basic to the Chinese belief system. Yang is more active, masculine, positive, light and energetic force. Ying, on the other hand, is the total opposite, being passive, feminine, negative, dark and heavy. This doesn't mean that you should think of Yang as being 'good' and Yin as being 'bad', however.

Think of them like day and night, summer and winter or male and female. They are oppositeand complementary by the well-known Tai Chi symbol, which extends the mutual opposition of Yang and Yin into a mutual dependence. The black dot in the middle of the white, Yang is the seed of Yin, while the white dot in the black area is the seed og Yang.