Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-23

Choo Foo Tsz, already mentioned, as
follows:
THE celestial principle was male, the
| terrestrial female: all animate and in
animate nature may be distinguished
into masculine and feminine. Even
vegetable productions are male and fe-
male; as, for instance there is female
hemp, and male and female bamboo.
Nothing exists Independent of the Yin
and Yang" Although the Chinese do
no characterize the sexes of plants and
arrange them Systematically as we do
after Linnaeus, they use the above
phraseology in regard to them; nor do
they confine it to the vegetable and
animal creation only, but extend the
same to every part of nature. Num-
bers themselves have their genders. A
unit and every odd number are male;
two and every even number female.
"The above might with no great i'm
propriety be styled a sexual system of
the universe. They maintain that when
from the union Of the Yang and Yin
all existences. both animate and mani
mate, had been produced. the sexual
principle was conveyed to- and became
inherent in, all of them. Thus heaven,
the sun. day, ETC., are considered of the
male gender; earth. the moon. night,
ETC., of the female gender. This notion
pervades every department of knowl-
edge in China. 1t exists in their theo-
ries of anatomy and medicine and is
constantly referred to on, every sub
ject."
Doctor Martin says (p. 1876 The
Chinese'D: woo Kieh produced Tai
Kieh, Tai Kieh produced Yin and Yang.
and these dual principles generated all
things. This is the lucid cosmogony of
the Chinese, and it adds little to it's
clearness to render the above terms, as
they are usually translated. by the
great extreme" the male and female
powers ETC." Again, he says Opp.
1923: "The common statement given
in Chinese histories may be freely rem
dered in the following form: The in
definite G-Woo Kieb) produced the
finite or defnie (2-Tai Kieh), the ele-
state. This chaos evolved the principle
of Yang, or light. The Yang produced
Yin, |. g.. darkness followed in the way
of alienation; and the Yin and Yang
90 together produced all things from
the alterations of day and night, and
the succession of the seasons"
Commenting on this. he says: Com
mencing with this simple idea, the Yin
and Yang have been gradually meta
morphosed into mysterious entities, the
foundation Of universal sexual sys-
tenn, and necessarily active in every
department of nature-at once the
fountain of the deepest philosophy and
the ailment of the grossest supersti-
ton"
Without dipping deeper into this re-
condite discussion, an idea has been
given, hope, of the significance of the
Grand Monad or the trade mark. to the
4O0,000,oO0 of Chinese. M
Metaphysicians have noted a paral-
lelism between the Yang and Yin and
the mundane egg of the Egyptians:
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its philosophical elaboration and the
of still other nations, Per-
STA, India, ETC., and even between it
and the Christian Scriptures.
The symbol is very generally used by
the Chinese in the ordinary affairs of
life. 1t is suspended over the doors
of residences as a charm; it is used to
ward off evil Influences: it is much
used by fortune-teller- and necrom-
ancers. The Japanese form of the
Monad is also used as a symbol of good
luck.
The Korean Tah- Cook
Although the trademark is of Chi
nese origin, 1t was, as stated, first seen
by Northern Pacific official on the
Korean flag; There seems to have been
perfect free trade between the Orien-
tails, at least so far as pnilosophic ideas
and symbols go. The emblem is found
not only among the Koreans, but also
n Japan. In Korea it is known as the