Generally speaking, imagery thinking is a peculiar mode of thinking in literary and artistic creation, while abstract thought is a basic way of thinking in scientific research.
In Beijing the Forbidden City wall's four place, each has a peculiar modelling, charm gracefuls battlements.
The theories of yin and yang and the Eight Diagrams in Zhott Yi belong to a peculiar mode of thinking for understanding nature in oriental civilisation, and China's traditional scientific thought is more often than not related with them.