The popular symbol depicted on many souvenirs looks like a circle divided by a winding line into two symmetrically located equal parts. Inside each of them there is also a circle, signifying the eye of some creature, whose contours are limited by the external semicircle and wave. Half the circle is painted in contrasting colors. What does yin-yang mean, with the image of which it has become fashionable in recent years to decorate the most unexpected objects and apply it to your own body in the form of a tattoo? Does this symbol help withstand worldly misfortunes?
Some people take it for some kind of amulet, amulet, and hang this image in the house, behind the windshield of the car or wear it around the neck in the form of a medallion, saying: "Yin-yang, save me." No, this symbol was not invented in ancient China, it is rather a kind of visual scheme that helps to better understand the essence of the world around us.
Hegel's philosophy, criticized by Marx and accused of everything being turned upside down, operates with the concept of “unity and struggle of opposites”. Any magnet and our entire planet has two poles. Living beings are divided into two sexes. The concept of good and evil is also dualistic. There is light, and there is darkness. From time to time, with a certain periodicity, each side is replaced by the opposite. This is what yin-yang means, so simple at first glance, a graphic reflection of the unity of opposites.
All religions in their theories of the creation of the world rely on the initial integral chaos preceding the creation of the universe, and scientists in their research are in solidarity with theosophists. As the entropy decreased, the universe was divided into two mutually compensating halves, each of which, reaching a maximum in its development, gave way to the other. The round spots of the eyes symbolize the presence within each of the opposite sides of the embryo of an impending change, a harbinger of a change in the phase of the path called "Tao."
The flow of energy (qi) from one half of the circle to the other as if combines these two mutually integral parts, creating a whole. Trying to figure out what the word "yin-yang" should be divided into two parts. Black yin symbolizes the feminine, white yang - masculine. Yin is intuitive, and yang is logical. Yin is death, and yang is life. North and south, cold and warm, plus and minus - this is what yin-yang means.
The philosophical meaning of this hieroglyph is so deep that it itself rejects the accusation of Marx against Hegel’s dialectic. It is impossible to incorrectly turn over something that has two heads and two tails; any position of this scheme can be considered correct.
Universal harmony and balance of natural forces - this is what yin-yang means. This concept is universal in its application; it can describe both the state structure and the proper nutrition system. It has a social, physical, and chemical meaning.
The ancient Chinese treatise "I Ching", also called the "Book of Changes", treats yin-yang as two sides of the same mountain, which is one, but consists of two slopes, alternately illuminated by the sun's rays.
