Foto de stock de Taoist temple ceiling in Malaysia

George Town, Penang State, Malaysia - August 27th, 2012 Ceiling of a Taoist temple in George Town decorated with dragons and the Bagua (Eight Trigrams), an important Taoist visual symbol. The Bagua are eight symbols used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line either "broken" or "unbroken", respectively representing yin or yang. Due to their tripartite structure, they are often referred to as Eight Trigrams in English. The trigrams are related to the five elements used by Feng Shui practitioners and in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Those five elements are Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal.