Like night and day, two basic philosophies rule over Chinese culture and mindset:  Taoism and Confucianism.  These attitudes towards life, one more structured and socially oriented and the other yielding and nature oriented, have coalesced over thousands of years, giving its adherents, the largest population block in the world, a distinctive completeness.  As you will see, these philosophies complement each other, and the Chinese believe that one is not "balanced" if he/she does not have a measure of both.

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