阴阳观念的萌生及“阴阳”一词成为抽象哲学概念的过程

The Emergence of the Concept of Yin and Yang and the Process of the Word"Yin and Yang"Becoming an Abstract Philosophical Concept

新石器时代早期,人们因太阳崇拜而萌生源于太阳的阴阳观念。这一时期因定居和生业的需要,人们利用日出日落现象和递进二分法建立平面空间方位;新石器时代中期,又因指导农作生产的需要,用太阳周年回归视运行分阴阳和递进分阴阳创制太阳历,因日照的背与向对农作物的影响于距今5000年左右引申出表地理方位北与南的阴阳语义,这时关联太阳阴阳的运用及理论已很丰富。关联太阳阴阳转向哲学含义始自新石器时代中期早段的日月阴阳观念;阴阳思维经数千年拓展与深化,至迟在西周初年,阴阳已经成为人们认识自然和社会的基本哲学范畴,春秋战国时期的哲学家将“阴阳”一词抽象为哲学概念。

in the early Neolithic age,the concept of yin and Yang originated from the sun because of sun worship.In this period,due to the need of settlement and employment,the plane space orientation was established by using the sunrise and sunset phenomenon and progressive dichotomy.In the middle Neolithic age,for the need of guiding agricultural production,the sun calendar was created by dividing Yin and Yang and gradually dividing Yin and Yang according to the annual return of the sun.Because of the influence of the back and direction of sunlight on crops,the semantic meaning of yin and Yang,which indicates the geographical direction of North and south,was extended about 5000 years ago.At this time,the application and theory of the sun Yin and Yang have been very rich.The philosophical meaning of the sun Yin and Yang turn has been renewed The concept of Sun Moon Yin Yang in the early period of the middle stone age.After thousands of years of development and deepening,yin and Yang had become the basic philosophical categories for people to understand nature and society at the latest in the early Western Zhou Dynasty.Philosophers in the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period abstracted the word"Yin and Yang"as a philosophical concept.