Tsou Yen

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Tsou Yen (4th/3rd cent. BCE). One of the earliest Chinese philosophers to systematize a naturalism based on yin-yang—hence the Yin-yang school (or more fully Yin-yang Wu-hsingchia, Yin-yang Five Phases School). Through the interaction of male–female, light–dark, heavy–light, heaven–earth, and other opposites, the Tʾai-chi, the primordial foundation, works its way into manifestation by use of the five elements (wu-hsing).

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