1956,Anthony Burgess,Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page187:
"Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of theyang, the pure primal air. Theyin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"
2017 January 8, Leslie Hsu Oh, “I tried the Chinese practice of ‘sitting the month’ after childbirth”, inThe Washington Post[1],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on08 January 2017, Health & Science[2]:
According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state ofyin (cold). Whenyin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.
2023 November 1, Katie Hopkins, “Transitions & Remembrances”, inAlign & Spiral[3] (Blog), archived fromthe original on01 February 2024, Belief & Body Blog[4]:
In ancient Chinese philosophy, the opposing forces ofYin (passive, feminine, night) and Yang (active, masculine, sun) balance life.[…] As we turn towards darker days (from November 1st until the winter solstice's darkest night on December 21st), we have a chance to turn inward for reflection. We enter aYin phase.
Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
1 Except foryín, object pronouns have a high tone following a low or mid tone monosyllabic verb, and a mid tone following a high tone. For complex verbs, the tone does not change.
