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English: The Yin and Yang symbol with white representing Yang and black representing Yin. The symbol is a visual depiction of the intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in w:Taoism .
English: This is the Taijitu (太極圖), with black representing yin and white representing yang.It is a symbol that reflects the inescapably intertwined duality of all things in nature, a common theme in Taoism.
English: Taijitu ☯ (Yin Yang / Taoist symbol) Clockwise (Small - 16x16px Icon size) for Inline use - (Large image scales to invisible lines for inline size) Date 29 October 2011
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In its conventional orientation, the hot, bright, white yang nature rises while the cold, dark, black yin nature descends. Taoist esoterics often invert the symbol because they believe in this configuration the heat from the yang will be able to cook the jing in the yin producing qi which leads toward longer life and immortality.
Bagua is a group of trigrams—composed of three lines, each either "broken" or "unbroken", which represent yin and yang, respectively. [1] Each line having two possible states allows for a total of 2 3 = 8 trigrams, whose early enumeration and characterization in China has had an effect on the history of Chinese philosophy and cosmology .
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