Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short are in contrast to each other. High and low rest upon each other in mutual support. Tone and pitch are in harmony with each other. Front and back follow each other in succession. Lao Zi - Daodejing. Creator of the Yijing Chinese legend tells us that the concept of the Yijing came from the mind of the first Emperor, Fu Xi (2953-2838 BC). It is said that Fu Xi set out to study all of heaven and earth. Legend says that one-day while meditating by the river he saw on the back of an ancient tortoise a series of cracks. Some long and continuous and others broken and short. He had a vision and from this he drew two lines one long and straight and the other broken in the center. The long line he called yang and the broken line yin. Each line is called a Yao. We can think of these lines as a symbol for the expression of a type of energy. The first two Yao, Yang and Yin were the beginning of the Yijing and were later evolved into the trigrams, as we know them today. With this idea of opposite energies Fu Xi turned his eyes to the heavens and studied astronomy as well as the movements of the sun, the stars, the moon, and the planets. He turned back to earth and observed the flat, the rolling, and the mountainous land, how some soil was good for tilling and other soil was not. He studied the weather, the tides, the storms, and the regular changes of the seasons. Natural history claimed his interest, and he watched the birds and the animals and deciphered their languages. He found enlightenment through the very practical process of examining the concepts of space and time. By understanding time and the cycle of life, he found that he could explain all events based on cycles of change in his Yin and Yang concepts. He sought to find the explanation of change in a person, thing, or event. The constancy of cycles that repeat themselves faithfully makes possible all that we experience and do. These cycles always bring us change and the freedom to change, and at the same time create the unchanging foundation of our life and world. Finally Fu Xi turned to observe and study within himself. Out of this he created the eight trigrams as a method to understand and make use of natural energies in the visible world and the energies of the invisible world. He also used it to represent the relationships of everything in our three dimensional world and to build images of anything in our world. Over time the Yijing evolved into an index or almanac of nature's laws as they apply to the planets, stars and the affairs of all humans, plants and animals in the world. Shown here is an example of correspondence. The Yang and Yin are polar opposite energies that are also complementary. One cannot exist without the other to contracts against it. These are only a few of the examples. This list could contain thousands of words and still not completely cover all the opposing ideas, things and energies in the universe. It is also important to note that I have placed a Taiji Du symbol in the center merely for illustration purposes. This symbol was created many years later in China as another expression of the concept of Yin and Yang interaction. We will learn more about this in the following section.

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