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Chinese medicine is not only highly respected by China people, but also interested by many foreigners and even medical scientists. Although many people are interested in the rich health preserving theories and methods contained in TCM, they are often deeply confused when they really come into contact with many abstract concepts such as the balance of yin and yang. Even if you know some obvious basic principles, it is difficult to combine them with practice, so many people who keep in good health are discouraged.
When it comes to yin and yang, we must first mention the Book of Changes. On the surface, the Book of Changes is a book about divination, but in fact there is a very profound philosophy in the Book of Changes, that is, the philosophy of Yin and Yang. The philosophy of Yin and Yang in the Book of Changes laid the foundation of China's whole Yin and Yang culture. Therefore, to study health culture, we must first understand the Yin-Yang theory in the Book of Changes. The word "Yi" itself is composed of a word "day" and a word "month". The sun is above and the moon is below. That is to say, the Book of Changes expresses the movement of Yin and Yang in the universe, and the movement of this day and month produces the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, cold and heat, and day and night, that is to say, the movement of the universe produces the gasification of Yin and Yang. Therefore, the Book of Changes emphasizes that the movement of all things is the movement of yin and yang, including our lives, and so is our life activities. ...