Picture in wood e white epoxy resin with white symbol Yin Yang

The best known of the Taoist visual symbols is the Yin-Yang, also known as the Taiji symbol. The image consists of a circle divided into two tear-shaped halves, one white and the other black. Inside each half is a smaller circle of the opposite colour.

The Yin-Yang symbol and Taoist cosmology

In terms of Taoist cosmology, the circle represents the Tao, the undifferentiated unity from which all existence arises. The halves black and white within the circle represent Yin-qi and Yang-qi, the primordial feminine and masculine energies whose interaction gives life to the manifest world.the Five Elements and the Ten Thousand Things.

Diameter: 29cm