The Yin-Yang School and Chinese Cosmogony

In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang (陰陽 "dark-light", "negative-positive") is a Chinese philosophical concept that describes how obviously opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the cycles of Yin and Yang and formed into objects and lives. Yin is the receptive and Yang the active principle, seen in all forms of change and difference such as the annual cycle (winter and summer), the landscape (north-facing shade and south-facing brightness), sexual coupling (female and male), the formation of both men and women as characters and sociopolitical history (disorder and order).
Wuxing, (five elements, 五行; pinyin: wǔxíng), usually translated as Five Phases, is a fivefold conceptual scheme that many traditional Chinese fields used to explain a wide array of phenomena, from cosmic cycles to the interaction between internal organs, and from the succession of political regimes to the properties of medicinal drugs. The "Five Phases" are Fire (火), Water (水), Wood (木), Metal or Gold (金), and Earth or Soil (土). This order of presentation is known as the "Days of the Week" sequence. In the order of "mutual generation" (相生), they are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. In the order of "mutual overcoming" (相克), they are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Metal.

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