Off topic: What is the text in Chinese? Thread poster: donkapone
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donkapone
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So the deal is that I've gotten very interested in ancient chinese philosophy, and I've found a really intersting looking interpretation of Taijitu, but I cannot figure out what the text says in it - www.abaldai.lt/taijitu.jpg it's something about fight and treasure... can anybody help me? Thank you...
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| 以无法为有法、以无限为有限--李小龙 | Jun 21, 2007 |
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| I suppose that you don't read Chinese. | Jun 21, 2007 |
donkapone wrote: So the deal is that I've gotten very interested in ancient chinese philosophy, and I've found a really intersting looking interpretation of Taijitu, but I cannot figure out what the text says in it - www.abaldai.lt/taijitu.jpg it's something about fight and treasure... can anybody help me? Thank you...
Hi Don Capone,
Here the one answering you is Lucky Luciano. I suppose you don't read Chinese. So, let me explain the pictoral interpretation of Taiji as wrong to you in plain English in the following.
As you know, Taiji incorporates two forces, a soft one and a hard one, or an easy one and a hard one. These are Yin and Yang. The Way of life is always expressed in these two forces. A man cannot go the hard way all the time. He must compensate his hard doing with easy going, so that his way of living reaches a harmonized state like the Taiji expresses.
Now, let's look at the picture you referred to. The two forces are both hard forces, a dragon and a tiger. They are competing and not harmonizing. We say in Chinese, "When a dragon and a tiger compete against each other, there must be one of them who gets the hurt." This is not the Way depicted in the Taiji. Therefore, this pictoral interpretation is wrong.
By the way, the "tu" in "Taijitu" means "picture," that is, Taijitu = Picture of Taiji.
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Kevin Yang
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| Taoist, Laozi and Twenty-Eight Constellations... | Jun 21, 2007 |
Hello, donkapone
I saw your post was transfered to the Chinese Forum by our moderator. I believe this is the right place for your post. You have already received the nice responses from my colleagues. I assume you do not read Chinese. Here is my response in English.
It is indeed a piece of impressive graphic art. I also can tell this is not done by a person who can read Chinese, because the Chinese gibberish characters around the Yin and Yang circular disk disclosed the... See more Hello, donkapone
I saw your post was transfered to the Chinese Forum by our moderator. I believe this is the right place for your post. You have already received the nice responses from my colleagues. I assume you do not read Chinese. Here is my response in English.
It is indeed a piece of impressive graphic art. I also can tell this is not done by a person who can read Chinese, because the Chinese gibberish characters around the Yin and Yang circular disk disclosed the graphic artist’s disadvantage in this regard. I do not know exactly how to answer your question in a simple way. But I will try. When you look at an art work, different person will have different interpretation.
I assume you have already heard about the Yin and Yang theory, which is a Taoist approach to interpret each and everything in the world. They believe that the state of peace and tranquility will be eventually achieved only when the Yin and Yang get balanced by energy. Their founding father Laozi’s theory about the harmonious co-existence of human beings and the natural environments made Taoist more popular than ever before in both China and the western world, especially when the earth gets hit by natural disasters so frequently nowadays.
According to the Taoist theory, the “Green Dragon” and “White Tiger” are two of the four symbolic elements in the Chinese twenty-eight constellations （二十八宿） in the ancient astronomy. Each element represents one of the four quadrants of the sky. The four elements are as follows:
1. Heavenly Dragon (苍龙) or Green Dragon (青龙) represents the Eastern sky;
2. Vermillion Bird (朱雀) represent the Southern sky;
3. White Tiger (白虎) represents the Western sky;
4. Black Warrior (玄武) represents the Northern sky.
With the above-mentioned information in mind, you can see that the artist might be trying to portrait a balanced state of the Eastern world and the Western world in his artwork. It is always a nice thing to do to keep such wish alive, but I am not sure if we are there yet.
For those Chinese readers, I also found the following interesting article:
http://www.esunc.com/View/View.asp?OP=PerformDiscuss_VIEW&PerformDiscussID=102
“四方：中国古代的四方——东、西、南、北，对应着青龙、白虎、朱雀、玄武四方星宿和四种色彩。这中国四大神兽和祥瑞，来自中国古代最有想象力的历史记载《山海经》；这四个神兽和祥瑞一直陪随着中国人从远古一直走到现代；作为中国古代典型创意和中国古代人的理想，每一个祥瑞都由无数相关的神话传说元素组成，代表了中国古代原创的文化创意。”
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| | | | donkapone
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very interesting opinions, i'll try to do even more research about it...
| | | | pkchan
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