Yáng
The yáng is difficult to define without the Yin, since these two qualities are defined by complementarity. The famous tai chi sign shows this close interweaving between yin and yang. Deriving from Chinese philosophy, Taoism, this symbol represents a modeling of all the phenomena of creation, which explain at the same time the complementarity of the forces in presence, and their capacity of adaptation and transformation. Yin and Yang are thus inseparable from life in general, and movement in particular.
The yáng represented in white (or in red) is the emblem of the Sky, the masculine, the action, the immaterial, the heat, the lightness ….
Yin, represented in black, is a quality that can take many forms. It is the emblem of the Earth, the feminine, the receptivity, the materiality, the cold, the density (heaviness) …
According to Taoist philosophy, yin and yang complement each other, the more yang increases, the more the yin decreases and vice versa. And the points present in each of the opposites – white point (Yang) in the Yin and black point (Yin) in the yang, means that each carries in germ the complementary quality.
This model is used in MTC – with that of the five elements – to determine possible energy imbalances, source of pathologies, and to treat them.