I always wondered what these symbols meant…I know one is bad, duh!!! I am German, so if I wouldn’t know this, I would be pretty ignorant… But I was told/heard that it was a good symbol before but I never looked into it…
Well, my current host family goes to the Confucian temple once in a while and they took me there last week. One of their friends is a priest there and he explained everything to me. You know, the Yin and Yang and the symbolism of men and women!
The temple has 3 religions: Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian. The symbol for Buddhism is the ZZ swastika( the right picture)…but the SS stands for Hinduism and it is also the symbol Hitler used (the left picture)…Hence, the symbol has negative connotations since then, but it was a pure symbol in the past!
Une chose est clair, je me couche moins niaiseuse le soir…hehehe! :P
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