Yin and Yang, the method of the yellow emperor

ZhaiShuangQing Beijing university of Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        "Yin-yang" concept, the first in the I ching. Yin and Yang, is related to the nature of things and phenomena generalization of the two opposite, with the idea of unity of opposites. Yin and Yang represent not inter-opposite things, also can represent a things exist within the two inter-opposite aspects. Yin and Yang of the original meaning is very simple, it is to show the sun among celebre for Yang, back a day of overcast, later extended to the cold climate warming, orientation of the fluctuation, left and right sides, inside and outside, the movement of the restless and quiet state, and so on.

        The ancient thinkers saw all phenomena have positive and negative, use the concept of Yin and Yang to explain nature two inter-opposite tangling head and power, and that Yin and Yang are inherent things themselves, is the basic laws, such as the zhouyi · XiCi "yue:" Yin and Yang "of the word." Such a "dao" in huangdi neijing gets the most widely interpreted and use. The core of the argument is the plain question should be like big · Yin and Yang of "this sentence-the" Yin and Yang, the word is, of the heaven and the earth, the change of the field of all parents, born kill of the beginning, the government office of the gods."

        It is said, Yin and Yang is the objective laws of nature, human knowledge of the law of the things is, is classify things, the programme of change to the origin of sport is everything, everything is produced with the root cause of death. Here basically talk about the four questions.

        First, Yin and Yang is the objective laws of nature. ZhangJieBin cloud: "the right of the Yin and Yang tao, Yin and Yang, the two. Also born. Tai chi move, born Yin Yang static, dynamic, and the earth was born in day was born in static, the Yin and Yang of the heaven and the earth for word." The plain question should be like big · Yin and Yang of "say" QingYang for days, turbidity Yin to enrage. For the cloud, weather for for rain; the rain out to enrage, cloud the weather, "which is the generation of cloud heaven and earth as an example, the paper discusses the heaven and earth and Yin and Yang, and the law of photograph induction, it is because of the Yin and Yang of sympathetic, just have the gas of the Yin and Yang of heaven and earth, combined with exchange, will have everything the im. People in the nature of life, to influence the attributes, all the year round and the changing of the climate is a day by day and by night changes, and the ancients also think that this is the reflection of Yin and Yang movement change, such as "plain question to a big theory to ·" cloud "so Yang move, began in the temperature, and the" Yin in; move, is clear with and put in autumn and winter, the cold. Poor its points." The coffins · camp health will spirit "cloud:" midnight, after midnight people as the Yin and PingDan failure, as the Yin Yin and Yang yi. All the gas for Yang, day two japanese-chinese west and Yang failure, day into the Yang and Yin will do. All the gas" So the Yin and Yang called the law of nature, which is known as "the way of heaven and earth.

        Second, Yin and Yang are people so as to know the law of objective things. The gods, refers to combine all the change of unpredictable, "huai south son · Thai nation xun cloud:" the biological also, don't see a thing and the long; the kill things, don't see the also hurt and content wu, and this is thy gods." All things that god refers to the unpredictable, Ming refers to the infamous images. Mansion, refers to the shed, the hidden things. Yin and Yang are people know that everything in the natural world including tree growth die, human growth strong old already, throughout the year, thunder temperature changing the law of produce, etc.

        Yin and Yang is itself a pair of Chinese ancient philosophical category, the ancients will serve as main philosophy tool Yin and Yang, to know the nature of the objective things, and the knowledge of the human life rule, eventually building in TCM major guiding ideology, become the important content of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Yi zhuan "yin-yang" is also refers to the heaven and the earth, the sun and the moon tide visible entities, but more is refers to the firm soft, a movement, lines and closing, 46, flex, concern, good or ill luck when, risks, and size of the gain and loss, easy distance, the relative attribute such as health. "The spirit of the coffins · Yin and Yang of cloud:" and the captains and the invisible, Yin and Yang famous." Also emphasize main is a kind of attribute Yin and Yang meaning, rather than some concrete things. "Yin-yang" often and "gas" Ed, show that Yin and Yang are two kind of invisible gas. Generally speaking, the nature of the related things or phenomenon to oppose the both parties, has the opposite two properties, can use Outlines the Yin and Yang, this is the phenomenon of the Yin and Yang of things or attributes. This kind of Yin and Yang attribute, not any regulation, also not to be reversed, but there are certain laws. Yang represent active and enterprising, strong characteristics and has the characteristics of the things and phenomena; Yin represents the negative, withdraw into and weak properties and has the characteristics of these things and phenomena. Generally speaking, all the activities, the external, rising, of warm, bright, function of such belongs to Yang, and still, the inner, drop, cold, dark, material belong to Yin. According to the different function of Yin and Yang represent and attribute, traditional Chinese medicine for the human body will with the promotion of the action such as always, excited, the substance and function belong to Yang, and for the human body has condensed, moist, inhibit the action such as substance and function belong to Yin.

        Third, the most basic material is the characteristic of exercise changes, and the root is that Yin and Yang. "Classic" think, the physical world in motion all the time changing, this is the most basic material characteristics. The grain asked · six micro purport big theory "cloud:" lift in and out, no tools have ", "it is not in and out, from old growth strong; the lift, it has such growth of collection". "Classic" think this characteristic is the root causes of Yin and Yang, the plain question should be like big · Yin and Yang of "say" YangSheng Yin, Yang kill Yin long hide. Yang, Yin forming of gas. HanJi heat, heat extremely born cold ", "QingYang out on opening the turbidity Yin under; QingYang hair cou justified, opening turbidity Yin go completely; QingYang real four hits, turbidity Yin to quickly", "YangSheng is hot, Yin-is cold", "ChongYang is cloudy, heavy Yin, Yang," and so on, all that it is because of Yin and Yang that caused the nature, human body ever-present movement change, and that is the root causes of the sports change due to the Yin and Yang, therefore, the Yin and Yang called "the change of the parents".

        Fourth, Yin and Yang decided the ups and downs of the living things. Substance has a movement change will have its birth and death, while in filled contains failure factors, in life and at the same time it set the basis of death, the key is to exercise changes, the grain asked · six as the decree of cloud: "success or failure depends on the move, move on FuSheng and unceasingly is become will do." That's it. And this kind of movement change the root of the Yin and Yang, so the ups and downs of the things is death by Yin and Yang decision, which is known as "the beginning of life and death". LiZhongZi note: "Yin and Yang are born into things, Yin and Yang are dead, Yang's things to the living, Yin to things that are dead. All in all, life and death for the beginning. Also Yin and Yang" As soon as the changes of the day and night at the change of the human body, and various physical pathological changes, so here.

        All of the above clarifies the Yin and Yang of the basic concept and basic content, in particular is: Yin and Yang as philosophy of our country ancient time of a pair of category, the main representative supplement each other the two characteristics, which shows the nature related things and its internal unity of opposites between the two sides, they have mutual interaction between root, and each other, system, sympathetic, growth and transformation relationship. Yin and Yang is the objective laws of nature, human knowledge of the law of the things is, is the program of the classify things, it is because of the change of Yin and Yang to produce the movement of all things change, also just had all the produce and die.