Linfamy's video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-smJhRJSxQOA.html Check out Linfamy's video to find out how the "Taoist" ideas of Yin & Yang and the 5 Phases (wuxing) was brought over to Japan.
Please do, in my country of Philippines, I saw lots of his statues in many stores and houses (in some cases put even beside with Catholic saints) even though people here are oblivious to the Three Kingdoms period or Guan Yu himself.
What a comprehensive video! I recently started looking into Taoism and was wondering about these historical developments. As mentioned Vietnamese culture is saturated with Taoist notions, but they are so entwined with Buddhist or folk practices that one does not know where the threads begin. Somehow it's very harmonious, like the cosmology in "Journey to the West". So glad to see my two favorite channels doing a collaboration. Your channel is so valuable.
So yin yang and the 5 elements look like the vedic siderial astrology and its 5 elements and ruling forms of om and aum. Do you think there could have been a development of thought of these much older philosophies into the Chinese form?
Once again another incredibly well structured, presented and interesting video! You keep absolutely smashing it, and to think you collabed with one of my all time favourite RU-vidrs is incredible! You deserve the success and so much more my dude
"A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you" -Zhaungzi 井蛙不可以語於海者，拘於虛也；夏蟲不可以語於冰者，篤於時也；曲士不可以語於道者，束於教也。今爾出於崖涘，觀於大海，乃知爾醜，爾將可與語大理矣。
Not gonna lie, my first time exposed Taoism is from "Mr Vampire" movie series. I always thought Taoist is like Chinese vampire slayer, back when I was kid
Me too, bro. Imagine how disappointed I was when I started reading Daodejing. XD All the magic stuff wasn't meshed in with Taoism yet at the time of its writing.
@@CoolHistoryBrosSir, I request you to make a video about the Raja Lalitaditya Muktapida of Kashmir, who conquered and ruled the several parts of Afghanistan and central Asia. He also defeated the Islamic caliphate of Arabs. He ruled a short lived but large empire
I agree with the discovery part, but I think of Daoism faith and Daoism teaching as separated entities. That aside, if I didn't butcher the phrase, Lao Zi didn't name the practice because "The 'Dao(s)' was not supposed to be named. If it was named, it was not the Dao". What I comprehended from the phrase was that the "Dao" supposed to be vast and various, to give a name is to bind that 'Dao' to the name thus limiting that Dao, excluding it from its 'livelihood', the 'progression'. Like when seeing the word 'Blue', oftentimes people will stop at "Oh, it's a name of a color!" rather than going on further length of pondering about other aspects, meanings, values and significances of 'Blue'. So I completely agree with the discovery part, but inner or not, it's hard to say. Things perceived are built upon different proportions of interactions of 'inner' and 'outer' factors varying between each object and person, it's hard to say which one is more significant between inner and outer in 'Daoism' or 'anything else', don't you think so?
Interesting to note is that the Chinese name for Jupiter 木星，Mars 火星，Venus金星，mercury 水星，Saturn 土星, are named after the five elements, 金木水火土。In a Taoist book 阴符经，the five elements are used to refer to these planets in the solar system (or so I believe), and in according to the Taoist philosophy of heaven and human correspondence (actually not exactly sure if it is Taoist or Confucianist), changes in those planets (which I guess to be the retrograde motion of those planets), means something auspicious would happen (some kind of divination of the future, something to do with the mandate of heaven I think). I'd argue the book is about astrology and divination, but some say it is a military book. I read somewhere that the Yi-Ching was the foundation of the Chinese calendar. The calendar was relevant to farming and knowing the seasons etc, but it was also used for divination. The derivation of yin-yang is from Yi-ching I think, and the five elements from yin-yang. The Yi-Ching is 3 separate books written at different times, and there are also interpretations (divinations?) written by Confucius. But the book is very tough to read, so I haven't really understood what it is talking about, other than its divination purpose. Apparently, 2 out of three books of the Yi-Ching is lost throughout history, but other claims say that the current version encompasses all previous versions or something like that, I'd stay on the positive side and hope we have the full version.
I'd say some of those Taoist scripts may offer insight into the "sciences" that the ancient people used. They are pseudoscience by our standards, but it was working decently for the ancient peoples, and it did come from empirical observations. People in the past are not stupid by any chance, they are just limited by the times they live in, and the preconceptions they have.
Yep! And not just the music theory, but also the 5 senses, 5 colours, 5 flavours (salty, spicy, sour, sweet, and bitter), and so many other things that are categorized into 5. Five is unofficially considered as a complete number.
Koreans later further developed 5 phases and Yin-yang into their traditional medical practice as well. Interesting to see how mixed Taoism got evolved.
I would very much like to see an episode on the famous admiral Zheng He, and more specifically on why his explorations were discontinued. And another on the life of the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai. Thankyou!!
OH MY GOD MAN.... I've been reading about teachings of the 100 schools of thought since I was in high school just for self interest. I am a Chinese born and raised in South East Asia. My family worship is the mixture of confucianism and taoism in the magic sense only, but I'm curious as to the teachings of Tao. So I read about Lao Zi, Confu Zi and the other -Zi of those eras. It got my confused, all these are good for the mind, they teach us logic and stuff (and I still dislike Confucianism). But for sure, none of them speaks about magic, feng shui, or any of the god worships. Now thanks to your video, I know what they are roughly. It's so clear now. Thanks a lot bro, you teach history in a cool way.
wow...that 3:07 description of the yin yang is actually how it's supposed to be described... the yin part is indeed not supposed to be visible... you're a genius^^
Please make a video about Sun Yat Sen's revolution and how his ideologies influenced by Confucianism, Legalism, Western democratic ideology and Western socialist ideology
That's a pretty interesting idea. I think the reason why China never had any qualms with mixing philosophies, ideology and religion is because it never had a tradition of monotheistic religion with strong emphasis on orthodoxy like Christianity and Islam. India is pretty similar with the polytheistic Hinduism.
@@CoolHistoryBros When I read the three principles of people, I also suspect that Sun Yat Sen's ideology was also influenced by Zhou Li, Protestant Christianity, Pure Land Buddhism, Taoism, and Adam Smith's capitalist ideas. Other than that, he also admired Zhou Gong, Shang Yang, Han Fei Zi, Wang Yang Ming and Zhang Ju Zhen. He is like the borg from the old Star Trek film.
I still don't have the whole picture. How did Buddhism and taoism reach the korean kingdoms other than goguryeo, and what were the differences between the three korean kingdoms when it comes to these teachings?
Water erodes everything. That’s why you need the yin and Yang to be balanced. Drinking too much of water will gives u water poisoning, too little will drought ur body. Same goes for everything.
Perhaps Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism along with Mohism, Yangism, Logicians, etc ... should all be considered one religion, the religion of Chinese civilization? Maybe call it Zhouism named after the Zhou dynasty since that’s when these philosophy schools were born?
Or, is any of those religious though? I haven't knowen any one take Socrates's school of thought as religious, I think those in China are kind of the same, at least druing Zhou dynasty
I dont think these can be considered religions, and if so they are certainly not Organized Religions. They're more accurately each a school of thought promoting a certain way of governing or behaving in society. A conceptual framework.
@@kurtmill9080 isn’t that what the various denominations of Christianity do? Try to persuade? Whether the people follow or switch denominations is the question. The Hundred Schools of Thought are denominations of Zhouism.
@@nomanor7987 I think promoting and persuading are different than proselytizing and recruiting. Organized Religion intends to proselytize and its life blood relies on recruiting new members to speak and spreas its faith. It's also, usually and largely an unquestioned static faith that requires constant reinforcement. A School of Thought is a teaching where people are attracted to it by choice and share it not by force and desperation, but by invitation and honesty. Obviously for anything to be shared, a certain amount of persuasion is needed, but its different when it comes naturally vs desperately.
meanwhile, Europe was being it's usual ignorant self due to the Catholic church as well as what is now England was still divided in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
As a westerner, I like and agree with a lot of what Confucius has to say, but the words of Lao Tzu sound so annoyingly vague and remind me of those pseudospiritual self-help gurus who use many words to say nothing at all.
No, wrong statement: Yin Yang is just a name. The Yin-Yang concept was there, and rooted deeply in China/VN cultures since ancient time. In Tao Te Chin did talk and teach about the ralationship of "Having vs Empty", "Light and Night", "good and bad"....
Cool history bros, please use different letter type of font for your description in your pics. They are difficult to read also make text size larger. Eg. at 8:52 and 9:34
According to modern pinyin romanization, you're right. But I don't think the rest of the world had caught up yet and they're still using the old Romanisation. So I used Taoism to make it easier for others to find this video.
Interesting... *Self-note: this would explain how some ideas over the centuries were attributed solely to a single individual "Confucius" and yet one wonders how much of this is true? Lun Yu wrote The Analects of Confucius's teaching; However, much of the actual text was written by his students over a time period spanning the thirty to fifty years following his death. How many of these were actually his teachings and not interpretations by his students? What was left out? What was changed? The human minds back in ancient China were susceptible to the same flaws, lies, rationalizations, and simple forgetfulness as our modern minds, if not more. Conformity to the existing system/rulers is also a thought when thinking about how long these were written after his death.
christian texts werent written until 300 years after his death... the Chinese have far too much self respect and discipline to randomly assign to some long forgotten person. only two explanations are likely: 1) the INTERPRETATIONS by the students are attributed to confucius either because understanding of the teachings came later, or the students did not dare claim the idea as their own as their ideas stemmed from confucius' teachings; or 2) everything is made up and a concerted effort by different people from different states, across centuries and dynasties colluded to create an image of a person...lol i'm going to go with the first one...
What are your credentials for these videos ? Also, would you please list the sources that you use to make all your videos. There are a lot of claims that need to be supported. Having said that, impressive work.
Korean : Taoism is not from china , it's from me Since watching the speeches of Koreans on RU-vid, the history of East Asia that I have studied for more than 30 years turned out to be wrong. It turns out that East Asia is not a Chinese character cultural circle, but a Korean cultural circle. Everything is from Korea 🤣🤣🤣
Stop spreading your fake theories. No one in Korean thinks Taoism and Confucianism originated from Korea. Do you have any evidence that Koreans insist every Asian culture is theirs?
Yin= matter that's combined by Yang, things/trends that gather, shrink etc. Yang= force that's produce by Yin, things/trends that spread, grow etc. 5 elements if you look into there true properties, they all contain the Yin and Yang properties, but with different proportions.
Unfortunately the writers of the ancient texts did not have modern language available to them otherwise they would have been able to properly convey what they were actually talking about.
Ying and yang concept already had on the Bronze drum 🥁 of Vietnam long time ago way before Taoism. And on the Drum, it stated that a year had 364 days.
Taoism or the way of the Tao, is the basic principle of acupuncture that predates History and is recorded in the works of Huangdi Yellow Emperor 2500 BC..... Yin-Yang and 5 elements as well as 8 forces are parts of nature and so are as old as the Tao itself.....
The elements associated with the five phases do not have to do with literal woof, fire, earth, metal and water. That’s why they are called phases. They are states of change that all manifest phenomena and Qi undergo. The elements associated to each phase are simply symbols which embody the attributes of each phase.
A popular Korean folk-hero, Hong Gildong, was said to be a master of Taoist magic. Reading his story gave me a very interesting and confusing introduction to Taoism lol
Hong gildong is not a Taoist magic master. ( Infact I dont know what en earth is that) . Its just a simple translating error of dosul. We just say any kind of superpower 'dosul' and we called taoism 'dogyo' . 'do' is an idea not only in taoism but in other ancient Chinese, Japanese, Mongolians,Koreans philosophies or religion.
"chosen" is the old country name of 🇰🇷 Korea. pin.it/4StxErv The etymology of "CHOSEN" means a child of the sky, brought to Earth by a bird when a new moon (mother) gives birth to the light (child) of the sun (father). Korean Hanbok is a traditional costume worn by the child(khan,han,🤴)of the sky when they perform rituals to the sun and the moon. Please Note^^ Shangdynasty = dangun chosen 商朝 天干 = 朝鮮 檀君 History was distorted and divided, and when under colonial rule in the 1800s, they learned colonial history. Currently, Koreans have fled (moved) the dynasty to the Korean peninsula where the Russian embassy was located in the 1800s with Emperor Gojong. Korean means continental nobility. Modern Joseon(chosen ) and Ming(明) Dynasty are the same thing. Cheonjamun was created by the ancient Korean "CHOSEN". 🇰🇷 The old Korean name is "CHOSEN". Characters like "bowl" containing the original ancient language are called sonic characters. Over time, multiple meanings began to be added to a single word. As a result, communication problems arose. So, we studied to solve this problem. As a result, separate meanings were made to create characters. As a result, a cheonjamun with meaning was created. King Sejong of Korea did not create text. It distorts the history of hangul in Korea. Also, the original name, not "hangul", is "cle ssi or cle thi or glish". Its history goes well beyond at least 5,000 years. “GLISH” in English is rooted in Korean characters. In addition, Korean language is the root of the world's languages, including Sanskrit and English in India. pin.it/2QxcZP7 Currently, Korean history is being distorted by colonial history and being educated. www.gelssi.com/ Emperor Gojong moved away from the continent and before the establishment of the Taiwanese government, Emperor Gojong flees to the Korean Peninsula where the Russian Embassy is located This means that the dynasty moved to the Korean Peninsula. At that time, Vladivostok was called Liaodong Peninsula or Giza, meaning the same. This is the Korean peninsula now. Japan wins the Russo-Japanese War and is occupied by the Japanese army. This is the current Korean Peninsula. Joseon is the continent itself, and it is now the People's Liberation Army that the Korean peasant forces abandoned the scholar and joined the European forces to become rebels. Because of these forces, the dynasty moved That is why I came to the Korean Peninsula. The Koreans are the scholar who defended the emperor, and they are called the descendants of the celestial son, and they are called CHOSEN = Josen. They say that the bird came down with the seeds of the sun The origin of hanbok is that when a rite is held in commemoration of that day, a rite in the form of a bird is worn. pin.it/3Wdgimi
