Fun at the Fair with Caution

Fun at the Fair is Back with Caution

It’s August so that means it’s fall fair time again.

The origins of fall fairs have always been about showing off produce from the garden and livestock.

With the pandemic winding down, fall fairs are back with live events across Canada, which started in late July and run through until late September.

What can you see at fall fairs?

Giant vegetables, award winning jams, zucchini races and possibly cowboys are a few things to look forward too.

Most fall fairs will have a communicable disease prevention plan in place. That means extra hand washing and sanitizing stations, limits on capacity, masks recommended for all indoor spaces, extra cleaning on high use or high touch areas and social distancing guidelines.

Not everyone is ready to attend a larger event with crowds, so some fairs are providing the virtual aspect with video content, contests and live streams. Get out and support your locall fall fair. https://www.bcfairs.ca/events

Later, chi was brought into the system of yinyang. Within yinyang theory there are two types of chi: yin chi (陰氣), which creates matter, and yang chi (陽氣), which animates matter. In a constant state of change and movement, chi brings microscopic matter together into a living being and then, when the being’s chi has been extinguished, the matter returns to its microscopic parts and reforms as something else.

In Chinese thought, the correct balance of chi and yinyang is essential to well-being.

This is expressed in the term yinping-yangmi (陰平陽秘), which means to have normal yin and a firm, deep base of yang.

Most people are born with a perfect configuration of chi, but it is then our responsibility to maintain that balance.

The Japanese samurai doctor Kaibara Ekiken said that everyone is born with a body built to last 100 years, but that each time we do something that is not in alignment with correct living we deduct some time from that life expectancy.

The Ultimate Guide to YinYang looks at how the world works according to yinyang theory.

Towards the end, you also learn how to use yinyang to make the world work for you.

While it is important to know how the universe came to be and how to recognize the patterns of nature which flow around you, it is also important to know how to ride those waves and to harvest from those patterns.

It is not a negative act to take from the world – the world is there to be enjoyed.

However, it is wrong to take too much, to push nature to the edge of ruin and society to the brink of chaos. Your goal is to be in the correct place, at the correct time, doing the correct thing and having the wisdom to know when you have