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==Society and culture== To have "gall" is associated with bold, belligerent behaviour, whereas to have "bile" is associated with sourness.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lifang |first=Qu |title=Chinese Medicine Psychology: A Clinical Guide to Mental and Emotional Wellness. |publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-78775-276-4 }}</ref> In the [[Traditional Chinese medicine|Chinese medicine]], the gallbladder ({{linktext|lang=zh|θ½}}) is associated with the [[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|Wuxing]] element of wood, in excess its emotion is belligerence and in deficiency cowardice and judgement, in the Chinese language it is related to a myriad of [[idiom]]s, including using terms such as "a body completely [of] gall" ({{lang|zh-Hant|ζΈΎθΊ«ζ―θ½}}) to describe a forward person, and "single, alone gallbladder hero" ({{lang|zh-Hant|ε€θ½θ±ι}}) to describe a lone hero, or "they have a lot of gall to talk like that".<ref name=YU2003>{{cite journal|last=Yu|first=Ning|title=Metaphor, Body, and Culture: The Chinese Understanding of Gallbladder and Courage|journal=Metaphor and Symbol|date=January 1, 2003|volume=18|issue=1|pages=13β31|doi=10.1207/S15327868MS1801_2|s2cid=143595915}}</ref> In the [[Zangfu]] theory of [[Chinese medicine]] it is an extraordinary Fu or [[Yin and yang|yang]] organ, as it holds bile. The gallbladder not only has a digestive role, but is seen as the seat of decision-making and judgement.<ref name=YU2003 />
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