Editing Yin and yang (section)

== Nature ==
Yin and yang are a concept that originated in ancient [[Chinese philosophy]] that describes how opposite or contrary forces may create each other by their comparison and are to be seen as actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.<ref>{{cite web |title=The hidden meanings of yin and yang – John Bellaimey |date=2 August 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezmR9Attpyc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/ezmR9Attpyc |archive-date=28 October 2021 |access-date=2 August 2013 |publisher=TED-Ed}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Xu |first=Guang |title=Chinese Herbal Medicine |publisher=Vermillion |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-09-180944-7 |page=41}}</ref>

In [[Daoist]] philosophy, dark and light, yin and yang, arrive in the ''[[Tao Te Ching]]'' at chapter 42.<ref>{{cite web |last=Muller |first=Charles |title=Daode Jing |url=http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/daodejing.html#div-43 |access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref>

It is impossible to talk about yin or yang without some reference to the opposite, traditionally it is said that Yin and Yang are known by the comparison of each other, since yin and yang are bound together as parts of a [[non-wellfounded mereology|mutual whole]] (for example, there cannot be the bottom of the foot without the top). A way to illustrate this idea is{{citation needed|date=June 2012}} to postulate the notion of a race with only women or only men; this race would disappear in a single generation. Yet, women and men together create new generations that allow the race they mutually create (and mutually come from) to survive. The interaction of the two (Heaven and Earth) gives birth to humans and therefore the ten thousand things.<ref>Robin R. Wang {{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/yinyang/ |title=Yinyang (Yin-yang) |encyclopedia=[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |access-date=9 March 2018}}</ref>