It was here in the exact spot that the first legendary ruler of China, Fuxi, discovered what came to be the legacy of Chinese Yin-Yang thought from the markings on the back of a turtle as it crawled out of the river. If you want to know what all of this means, don't worry, we got it all on film, except for the actual turtle, of course. We did get plenty of pictures of his memorials, though, from ancient buildings in Wudang and the Baiyun Guan (White Cloud Daoist Monastery) in Beijing.
For a complete discourse of Fuxi's trigrams and their relation to the development of Yin-Yang thinking and its application to acupuncture
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