Culture

Yin and Yang (阴阳) is the Chinese framework for complementary forces — dark/light, cold/hot, female/male. Learn its real meaning and how xianxia uses it in cultivation.

The Five Elements (Wuxing) are the foundation of Chinese cosmology, medicine, and xianxia elemental cultivation. Learn the generation and overcoming cycles, and how novels use them.

Daoism is the religion that supplies most of xianxia’s cultivation framework — qi, golden cores, tribulations, immortals. This article explains what real Daoism teaches and how xianxia uses it.