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Yijing

Yijing, Chinese 易經 yìjīng, also I Ging, I Ching; literally “easy to pass by”: The Book of Changes. Das Buch der Wandlungen. In its actual form written in the 7th/8th century B. C., probably based on much older precursors. It

Yin and Yang

Yin and yang, Chinese 陰陽 yīnyáng, „bright and shadow side of a mountain“: The traditional Chinese worldview, especially the Daosism, starts from the premise of a dual principle of nature. Everything in the world is either attributed to yin or