Hello, everyone! In this post I'd like to present you one of my tattoo-designs which combines tribal elements with some ancient symbols used in the Taoist cosmology (namely, the Yin-Yang symbol and the Wu Xing ideograms).
Wu Xing tattoo. Ideograms meaning: the chinese Five Elements: Wood (?, m�), Fire (?, huo), Earth (?, tu), Metal (?, jin), Water (?, shui). For more Kanji/Hanzi-tattoo-designs visit my website, seiza.ro.In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin-yang is used to describe how opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Many natural dualities (such as light and dark, high and low, hot and cold, fire and water, life and death, male and female, sun and moon, and so on) are thought of as physical manifestations of the yin-yang concept.
Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (instead of opposing) forces interacting to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the parts. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, (for instance shadow cannot exist without light). Either of the two major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on the criterion of the observation.
The Wu Xing, (?? wu x�ng) also known as the Five Elements, Five Phases, the Five Agents, the Five Movements, Five Processes, and the Five Steps/Stages, 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 Wood (? m�), Fire (? huo), Earth (? tu), Metal (? jin), and Water (? shui). This order of presentation is known as the "mutual generation" (xiangsheng ??) sequence. In the order of "mutual conquest" (xiangsheng ??) or "mutual overcoming" (xiangke ??), they are Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, and Metal.
My tattoo-design turned into a real tattoo.If you use any of my tattoo-designs as a model / inspiration / starting-point for a tattoo you might consider sending me some photos of the tattoo once it's complete. Thank you in advance.
