Yin and Yang
Man and woman, Yin and Yang.
A symbol of a plough on a piece of field, that is the original meaning of a man, socially man was a big labour in the field.
(below)This is the Chinese character for a woman, from the beginning, it stands for a person crouches with two arms crossed, weaving something maybe.
Maybe you have heared of Yin and Yang, the two opposing principles in Chinese phylosophy, the fomer for feminine and negative, and the latter masuline and positive.
The explaination of the Yin would be a little complicated story.
But the Yang, on the left is a picec of highland, while on the right is a lantern shinning on the top of it. Below is Yin:
Yin and Yang in a Chinese dictionary book.
