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
Taoism in Japan "yang", the "Ommyokan", to handle affairs of time keeping, astronomy, dream interpretation and calendar calculation and "yin-yang" and the Five Phases cosmology. By the 10th century, it developed with rituals to cast away unlucky tendencies and this became known as the religious practice in Japan called "inyodo" or "yin-yang" divination. Taoism also influenced "Shugendo", Japan’s shamanistic and mountain worship. It began in the 7th century and combined Buddhism, "yin-yang" divination, Shinto and Taoist elements. One spell of Taoistic influence is the “Come down, soldiers and fighters, and line up before me!” which is used to enter a holy mountain on