Chinese sun and moon mirrors Chinese sun and moon mirrors The yángsuì 陽燧 or sun-mirror was an ancient Chinese burning-mirror that concentrates sunlight to ignite tinder and the fāngzhū 方諸 or moon-mirror was a device that collects nighttime dew by condensation. These two bronze implements are literary metaphors for yin and yang, associating the ""yang"-mirror" "yangsui" with the sun (a.k.a. "tàiyáng" 太陽 "great "yang""), fire, dry, and round, and the ""yin"-mirror" "fangshu" with the moon ("tàiyīn" 太陰 "great "yin""), water, wet, and square. There are numerous Chinese names for the fire-producing "yángsuì" 陽燧 "sun-mirror" and water-producing "fāngzhū" 方諸 "moon-mirror". Yángsuì < Old Chinese *"laŋsə-lu[t]-s" can
Yin and yang animal body. Wu Jianquan, a famous Chinese martial arts teacher, described Taijiquan as follows: Footnotes Works cited Yin and yang In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang ( and ; "yīnyáng", lit. "dark-bright", "negative-positive") describes how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of Yin and Yang and formed into objects and lives. Yin is the receptive and