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Which cosmic dualism, expressed by the 'taijitu' (supreme ultimate diagram), depicts the interdependent nature of opposites—light and dark, male and female, activity and passivity—as a constantly flowing, never static balance?
Answer: Yin and Yang — The taijitu (commonly called the yin-yang symbol in the West) is a Song dynasty Daoist diagram encoding the idea that each pole contains the seed of its opposite, and harmony arises from their dynamic interplay, not the triumph of one side.
- A Five Elements
- B Eight Trigrams
- C Three Powers
- D Yin and Yang ✓
The taijitu (commonly called the yin-yang symbol in the West) is a Song dynasty Daoist diagram encoding the idea that each pole contains the seed of its opposite, and harmony arises from their dynamic interplay, not the triumph of one side.