"Who Paints the Eyebrows of the Devoted Lovers" - Baring Every Edge, for the Primordial Vastness Had No Master

"Legend tells that countless ages ago, in the ancient days of the Primordial Beginning, heaven and earth had not yet divided into clear and turbid, and all was indistinct chaos. After the Primordial Beginning, no one knows how much time passed before a moment finally came when form began. The primordial vastness first opened; the clear became spirit, the turbid became substance. Spirit and matter first parted, and time first began. This was called the Primordial Origin. In that age, space and time took shape: space was form and substance, time was moments and duration. Together they constituted the Primordial Universe."

"At the Primordial Origin, the universe was dark, clear, and silent, nothing but emptiness and absence. Though the two principles had divided, neither possessed definite form. Amid that murky, muddled, dim, and sluggish state, Yin and Yang gradually evolved. Their two energies first parted, then steadily separated: the light floated upward, the turbid sank below. The light and clear became the empty heavens; the heavy and turbid became the earth and stars. Thus heaven grew dark and earth yellow, the universe stretched vast and ancient, the sun and moon waxed and waned, and the constellations spread in their ranks. All things had their places, their pristine simplicity still intact. This was called the Era of Great Simplicity."

"After Great Simplicity, more than a billion years passed. The universe changed, Yin and Yang mingled, and at last cold came and heat departed, autumn brought harvest and winter storage. Intercalary days completed the years, musical pitches harmonized the Yang. Plums and crabapples became prized fruits, mustard and ginger esteemed vegetables. Seas were salty and rivers fresh; scaled creatures swam beneath the waters, feathered creatures soared above. All things now possessed life and spirit, bustling and thronging. Heaven and earth flourished in