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Chinese carving, Mountain with Daoist Immortals examing Ying Yang Diagram, 18th century. Quing Dynasty made of Bamboo root. In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describe how seemingly 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.