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Yin   /jɪn/   Listen
Yin

noun
1.
The dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology.



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Kuan Yin
Kwan-yin


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"Yin" Quotes from Famous Books



... on to describe how Tiyo is taken and guided by the Spider-Woman to various places, where he learned all about the ceremonies that the Hopis now perform at their Snake Dance to produce rain. He met the Sun and the Great Snake (Go-to-ya), and Mu-i-yin-wuh (a divinity of the underworld who makes all the germs of life), and each taught him something he needed to learn. Finally, after many wonderful adventures, he was lifted out of the underworld as he sat in a ho-a-pah, a kind of ...
— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James
... in the Royal Pear Garden," begins with a luxurious tone-poem of moonlight and shadow, out of which, after a preliminary tuning of the Chinese lute (or sam-yin), wails a lyric caterwaul (alternately in 2-4 and 3-4 tempo) which the Chinese translate as a love-song. Its amorous grotesque at length subsides into the majestic night. A part of this altogether fascinating movement came to Kelley ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... Chen Shih-yin, in a vision, apprehends perception and spirituality. Chia Yue-ts'un, in the (windy and dusty) world, cherishes fond thoughts of ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin


Words linked to "Yin" :   Red China, yang, principle, Communist China, Kwan-yin, People's Republic of China, Cathay, rule, PRC, china, mainland China


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