How this picture relate to China?

Question

I want to put this picture on a assignment for school for Chinese superstitions but I want to know how does it relate?? Thank You.

HOWHERE IS THE PICTURE: http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01027/images/fh16.gif

Answer 1

This picture is of the YIN - YANG symbol.
This symbol only exists in Chinese culture.
It stands for the duality of nature.
YIN is the female. YANG is the male.
In every female there is a little male. Female is passive.
In every male there is a little female. Male is active.
Notice the small dot inside the larger half circle?
It has been used by the native Philosophy/Religion of China called Taoism, or Daoism. This is NOT superstition.

Answer 2

risky - in a feeling the chinese language will see you have a digicam and could attempt to thieve it from you! additionally, China remains very lots a police state - so do no longer take photos of protection guards, squaddies, police - everyone in uniform. In a nation-state - be careful too - I as quickly as began to take photos of a few hills in north China and all of sudden squaddies with device weapons appeared working in direction of me - curiously there have been some rocket launchers, which i could no longer even see, yet they theory i'm taking the photos of them. It grew to become into very frightening journey, they jumped and yelled lots (i assumed they're inebriated and quickly will start up shoting...)

Answer 3

The concepts of Yin and Yang originate in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, which describes two primal opposing but complementary forces found in all things in the universe.

Yin (receptive, feminine, dark, passive force) and Yang (creative, masculine, bright, active force) are descriptions of complementary opposites rather than absolutes. Any Yin/Yang dichotomy can be seen as its opposite when viewed from another perspective. The categorization is seen as one of convenience. Most forces in nature can be seen as having Yin and Yang states, and the two are usually in movement rather than held in absolute stasis. Ying and yang are also used as the mai representations for nature

Everything can be described as both Yin and Yang.

1. Yin and Yang do not exclude each other.

Everything has its opposite: although this is never absolute, only relative. No one thing is completely Yin or completely Yang. Each contains the seed of its opposite. For example, winter can turn into summer; "what goes up must come down".
2. Yin and Yang are interdependent.

One cannot exist without the other. For example, day cannot exist without night. Light cannot exist without darkness. Death cannot exist without Life.
3. Yin and Yang can be further subdivided into Yin and Yang.

Any Yin or Yang aspect can be further subdivided into Yin and Yang. For example, temperature can be seen as either hot or cold. However, hot can be further divided into warm or burning; cold into cool or icy. Within each spectrum, there is a smaller spectrum; every beginning is a moment in time, and has a beginning and end, just as every hour has a beginning and end.
4. Yin and Yang consume and support each other.

Yin and Yang are usually held in balance: as one increases, the other decreases. However, imbalances can occur. There are four possible imbalances: excess Yin, excess Yang, Yin deficiency, and Yang deficiency. They can again be seen as a pair: by excess of Yin there is a Yang deficiency and vice versa. The imbalance is also a relative factor: the excess of Yang "forces" Yin to be more "concentrated".
5. Yin and Yang can transform into one another.

At a particular stage, Yin can transform into Yang and vice versa. For example, night changes into day; warmth cools; life changes to death. However this transformation is relative too. Night and day coexist on Earth at the same time when shown from space.
6. Part of Yin is in Yang and part of Yang is in Yin.

The dots in each serve:
as a reminder that there are always traces of one in the other. For example, there is always light within the dark (e.g., the stars at night); these qualities are never completely one or the other.
as a reminder that absolute extreme side transforms instantly into the opposite, or that the labels Yin and Yang are conditioned by an observer's point of view. For example, the hardest stone is easiest to break. This can show that absolute discrimination between the two is artificial.

Answer 4

it presents for the bads (dark side) and the goods (white side) of things or human's soul. Chinese pepleo believe that, bc remember they believe in many gods, so the yin yang is not a exception ,i do believe that too .

Answer 5

that sign is yang-Yong it is normally given to a people from
the master as a honer.
the white part shows the good side
and the black part shows the evil side

Answer 6

see it relates to chinese martial arts [kungfoo]

it is also the symbol of peace.

this sybol exists before the spread of buddhism in china.

i've also put this symbol in my 'lifestyle of chinese' project

hope this helps

Answer 7

well, it represents peace so China is peaceful i guess. But it doesn't relate so much so just use another picture!!!