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the Yin-Yang philosophy of Changes or philosophy of the Yi but co-ordinate into one entity. The sky is Yang positive,
King. The Earth is Yin negative, and the man absorbs the Yang air
from the sky and imbibes the Yin air from the Earth in order
In the humanistic view, once they are in accordance with to regularize his life. That is Three-Element-Relationship:
Yin-Yang transmutation, they are obeying to, yet not Heaven, Earth, and People. Once there is a male, there
resisting the natural order of the Nature. In the should be a female, both intercourses to give birth to child,
philosophical interpretation, the “Đạo” (Dao 道), that “Way” that’s in accordance with the natural principles of Yin-Yang,
is the absolute and pre-existing before the universe that was conforming to Heaven’s Way.
created, neither creating nor exterminating, neither
increasing nor decreasing, a mystical and metaphysical Phục-Hy (Fu Zse) described the alternate transmutation
principle which is impossible to comment. between Yin and Yang elements by the following diagram of
the natural universe, called Fu Zse Tai Chi diagram:
This absolute is the innate air from the nothingness of the (伏羲太極圖) (fig: 1):
infinite, or Vô Cực (Wu Chi 無極). An idle computer,
unused, is in the state of nothingness of Wu Chi, the
primordial unmanifested state. Suddenly, someone places
hands on the keyboard, intends to type, he /she brought a
movement into the nothingness, that’s the beginning of Tai
Chi, the universal monad (太極), the starting point of the
process of transmutation, the source of Yin-Yang changes.
The nothingness exists before the movement’s start. When
there is a start, the motionless disappears, and immediately (Fig: 1)
the Tai Chi begins, then splits into dualistic opposite
elements which are Yin and Yang, then coming to end their The author Jou, Sung Hwa connected Yang with Yin by a
cycle by turning back to Tai Chi, the origin, just as the curved line for expressing the dynamic circular movement,
theory of “duality in an unique”, next repeat the same cycle, by contrast, if the line is straight, this means Tai Chi is in a
again and again exactly the sinusoid cycle in trigonometry. motionless state (1). So, inside Yang there is Yin (black dot)
and inside Yin there is Yang (white dot). Therefore, when
Thái (“Tai” in Tai Chi) means largest place, extremity, Yang reaches the maximum, the Yin germ transforms
ending point. The nothingness of Wu Chi is Yin, negative, gradually Yang into Yin, and when Yin reaches the
and the germ of the movement which rose from the infinite maximum, the Yang germ transforms Yin into Yang, and the
is Yang, positive. Though Yin and Yang are incompatible, transmutation concludes the cycle of birth in order to restart

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