关键词: 中日阴阳文化, 起源, 本质内涵, 外延特点, 同源异流

Abstract: Yin and Yang culture in China and Japan has the shared origin and exerts significant impact on the two countries, which has farreaching influence on philosophy, literature, religion, art and folk custom of the two countries. But so far only a few studies have been done on the comparison in China. With the origin of Yin and Yang culture between China and Japan as the starting point, this paper compares the essential characteristics of them, such as the original and exotic, gradual and abrupt, speculative and specific, and also compares their extension characteristics, such as the development history, spread way, application scope, then explores the differences and similarities of Yin and Yang culture between China and Japan by using the method of combining the horizontal and vertical, comparison diachronic and synchronic. It aims at providing a theoretical reference and effective example to study the outside influence of Chinese culture and the successful mode of Chinese traditional cultures “going out”.

Key words: Yin and Yang culture in China and Japan, origin, essential characteristics, extension characteristics, different branches of the same source