Yin, yang and life — Professor Jiang Yuan’an (name transliterated)
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- Publisher / author
- School of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong / Hong Kong Economic Journal
- Source language
- Traditional Chinese
- Actually accessed
- 2026-11-04
- Published date
- 2017-03-24
- Material type
- Institutional educational resource
- Access status
- Actually accessed
- What this source cannot establish
- An explanatory traditional-theory column, not a clinical study. Its broad efficacy and superiority assertions are not adopted.
Supports: relative yin-yang categories · seasonal comparison · harmony versus numerical equality
Original source information
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- Original title
- 陰陽與生命 — 姜元安教授
- Original publisher / author
- 香港中文大學中醫學院／信報
- Original source language code
- zh-Hant
- Original material type
- institutional educational resource
- Original supported topics
- relative yin-yang categories · seasonal comparison · harmony versus numerical equality
- Original access status
- accessible
- Recorded access date
- 2026-11-04
- Recorded publication date
- 2017-03-24
- Original review notes
- An explanatory traditional-theory column, not a clinical study. Its broad efficacy and superiority assertions are not adopted.
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Qi, Yin and Yang in Plain Language · Yin and yang always invite a comparison
The original shaded and sun-facing slopes provide a useful starting image. The point is a relationship, not that one slope contains a substance called yin. In traditional analogies, darkness and stillness are associated with yin, brightness and activity with yang. Neither side is a moral judgment.
Qi, Yin and Yang in Plain Language · Balance is not a recipe for equal amounts
CUHK explains traditional harmony as a relationship through changing conditions rather than simple numerical equality. This matters when popular writing turns “balance” into a rule to eat equal amounts of two food categories. The concept does not supply such a calculation.