释义 |
yangyang /jæŋ/ noun [uncountable]  yangOrigin: 1600-1700 Chinese ‘sun, positive’ - According to ancient ideas, the balance of yin and yang forces comprise an organic whole.
- Like the Confucians, the Taoists reinterpreted for their own use the general notions of yin, yang, and tao.
- One example was yin and yang.
- See, fire and dragon and sun, I said, all yang.
- The balance of yin and yang are present throughout the universe and in the natural balance of all creatures upon our planet.
- The other branch became the yang style that is popular in the West today.
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