Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:
This concept is expressed as shanshui, literally ‘mountain-water’ which used together represent the world ‘landscape’. More than two’ elements of an image, these represent two complementary poles, reflecting the Daoist view of the universe. The mountain is Yang – reaching vertically towards Heaven, stable, warm, and dry in the sun, while the water is Yin – horizontal and resting on the earth, fluid, moist and cool.
The interaction of Yin, the receptive, feminine aspect of universal energy, and its counterpart Yang, active and masculine, is of course a fundamental notion of Daoism. What is often overlooked is an essential third element, the Middle Void where their interaction takes place. This can be compared with the yogic practice of pranayama; breathe in, retain, breathe out-the suspension of breath is the Void where meditation occurs. The Middle Void is essential – nothing can happen without it; hence the importance of the white, unpainted space in Chinese landscape.
1. The word ‘landscape’ is combination of ……………
A. ‘Shan’ and ‘Shui’.
B. Mountain and Water.
C. ‘Yang’ and ‘Yin’.
D. All of these three
2. According to the Daoist view, ‘Yang’ is ………………
A. vertical.
B. horizontal.
C. void.
D. Both ‘A’ and ‘B’
3. The interaction between ‘Yang’ and ‘Yin’ is compared with ……………
A. Yog.
B. Pranayam.
C. Universal energy.
D. Void.
4. The unpainted space in Chinese landscape is ……………
A. The Middle Void.
B. Pranayam.
C. Yang.
D. Yin.
