Chinese sun and moon mirrors being hung round the neck, or because necks are concave things. Liu An's (c. 139 BCE) "Huainanzi" "Masters of Huainan", which is a compendium of writings from various schools of Chinese philosophy, was the first text to record "fangzhu" dew-collectors. Two "Huainanzi" chapters metaphorically use "sun and moon mirrors" to exemplify "yang" and "yin" categories and elucidate the Chinese notion of "ganying" "cosmic resonance" through which categorically identical things mutually resonate and influence each other. The "yángsuì" 陽燧 "burning-mirror" is "yang", round, and sun-like; the "fāngzhū" 方諸 "square receptacle" is "yin", square, and moon-like. The first context describes "yangsui" and
Ghosts in Chinese culture Zhong Kui - captured the smaller one and returned the purse. There has been extensive interaction between traditional Chinese beliefs and the more recent Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Ancestor worship is the original basic Chinese religion. The core belief is that there is a continued existence after death. It is thought that the soul of a deceased person is made up of yin and yang components called hun and po (魂 and 魄). The yin component, po, is associated with the grave, and the yang component, hun, is associated with ancestral tablets . At death the components split into three