Please look at the center for the Taiji or Yin and Yang design.
The Yin and Yang or Taiji
(Tae-Kieh as it is called in some old sources) is a Taoist symbol of the
dichotomy of duality in nature. Light and dark, male and female and so on are
represented in the Yen and Yang. Notice in the common representation there is a
circle of the other in each side.
The Art Institute of
Chicago divides them as such:
The Five Phases
greater yang: wood and
spring (east)
lesser yang: fire and
summer (south)
greater yin: metal and
autumn (west)
lesser yin: water and
winter (north)
the central phase: earth
and the solstices
http://www.artic.edu/taoism/tradition/introb.php
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