Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)
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Wuxing, translated as Five Moving Ones, Five Circulations, Five Types of Energy, Five Elements, Five Transformations, Five Phases or Five Agents, is a fivefold conceptual scheme used in many tradition
Tablet in the Temple of Heaven of Beijing, written in Chinese and Manchu, dedicated to the gods of the Five Movements. The Manchu word usiha, meaning "star", explains that this tablet is dedicated to the five planets, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, and the movements which they govern.
Taijitu
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In Chinese philosophy, a taijitu is a symbol or diagram representing taiji in both its monist and its dualist forms. A taijitu in application provides a deductive and inductive theoretical model. Such
Diagram of Continuation-Inversion (順逆之圖), based on the Taijitu, first published in 1611
Diagram from Zhao Huiqian's Liushu benyi (1370s) as represented in the Siku Quanshu edition (1751)
Simplified form of Lai Zhide's "Taiji River Diagram" (1599)
"The Great Monad" from Edna Kenton's Book of Earths (1928), after the design shown by Hampden Coit DuBose (1887)