TAO, YIN AND YANG

This illustration from a 19th century, Taoist weather manual depicts fire (yang) and cloud (yin) combined in a phase of evolving qi, or vital energy. Ink and cinnabar on paper.

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove by Fu Pao-shih (1904-1965). This group of 3rd-century scholars rejected worldly ambition for a life in pursuit of Tao.


A painting, from the Sui dynasty (581-618 CE), of Taoist masters presenting the emperor with a new edition of the Tao Te Ching, the central text of Taoism.