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Political and disaster interpretations remain historical claims; reproducing positions does not validate them.","reviewed":"2026-10-25","bibliography":{"title":"太乙金鏡式經（四庫全書本）· 卷二","responsibility":"Attributed to Wang Ximing of the Tang; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"卷二 · 推太乙所在法 / 推九宮所主法 / 推十六神所主法","edition":"Siku-edition transcription; positions and names located by section"}}},{"id":"source-mdnhvz","title":"太乙金鏡式經（四庫全書本）· 卷四","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B9%99%E9%87%91%E9%8F%A1%E5%BC%8F%E7%B6%93_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)/%E5%8D%B704","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"太乙","href":"/en/arts/taiyi","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Historical role and relation definitions","summary":"Volume four defines host and guest through scenario, precedence and response; the adjacent passage treats mutual restriction.","locate":"Locate the field-array and settled-position conditions under host and guest, and the Gaochong/Taicu and Yinzhu/Dizhu examples under mutual restriction.","limit":"These are internal textual rules and interpretations. They support textual analysis here, not a complete military-divination system or advice for real conflict.","reviewed":"2026-10-25","bibliography":{"title":"太乙金鏡式經（四庫全書本）· 卷四","responsibility":"Attributed to Wang Ximing of the Tang; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"卷四 · 推主客 / 推主客相闗法","edition":"Online Siku-edition transcription; no variant-edition collation completed"}}},{"id":"source-1t9xv6h","title":"太乙金鏡式經 · 故庫018063–018064","url":"https://catalog.digitalarchives.tw/item/00/12/69/14.html","host":"catalog.digitalarchives.tw","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"太乙","href":"/en/arts/taiyi","kind":"dossier"},{"title":"Court compilation, evidential critique and calendars: Qing","href":"/en/history#qing-critique","kind":"history"}],"note":{"type":"Institutional union-catalogue record","summary":"Catalogue metadata for the Palace Museum's Taiyi Jinjing Shijing: 故庫018063–018064, two volumes of the Wenyuan Pavilion Siku copy from the Qianlong period.","locate":"Consult identification for the accession and shelf location 3133, description for edition, format for two volumes and management for the National Palace Museum.","limit":"This review uses the union catalogue. Its original-resource link now opens the museum search homepage; item images were not examined. Keep attributed dynasty, copying period and web citation dates distinct.","reviewed":"2026-10-25","bibliography":{"title":"太乙金鏡式經 · 故庫018063–018064","responsibility":"Catalogue attribution: Wang Ximing of the Tang; Digital Archives union-catalogue record","identifier":"故庫018063–018064 · 排架號3133","holding":"National Palace Museum, Taipei","edition":"Qianlong-period Wenyuan Pavilion Siku manuscript copy; two thread-bound volumes"}}},{"id":"source-1ydp16e","title":"增刪卜易 · 八卦各宮全圖","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/3/%E5%85%AB%E5%8D%A6%E5%90%84%E5%AE%AE%E5%85%A8%E5%9C%96","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Transcribed historical figure charts","summary":"Lists polarity, branches, kin and host–response markers for all sixty-four figures, supporting comparison with the work's procedural chapters.","locate":"Locate the eight palace groups, especially Guan in Qian, doubled Gen in Gen and Xu in Kun.","limit":"Wikisource transcription without image collation; some names and characters are uncertain. Chapters four through seven are additional locators in the same work, not independent witnesses.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 八卦各宮全圖","responsibility":"Transmitted Zengshan Buyi text; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"八卦各宮全圖 · 本次读取 oldid 2100341","edition":"Online transcription; underlying copy and printing date not established from images"}}},{"id":"source-173a3vz","title":"增刪卜易 · 渾天甲子章第四","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/4","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Historical branch-assignment procedure","summary":"The Huntian Jiazi chapter lists inner and outer branch triples and illustrates upward assignment with Gou.","locate":"Chapter four, Huntian Jiazi: inspect the inner/outer lists and Gou example. The entries used for Gen are transcribed with Chen in the headings.","limit":"This site labels the suspect Chen headings as Gen by comparison with the same work's Gen chart, explicitly recording that editorial judgment. Image verification remains outstanding. The experiment assigns branches, not heavenly stems.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 渾天甲子章第四","responsibility":"Transmitted Zengshan Buyi text; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"第四章 · 本次读取 oldid 2100293","edition":"Procedural transcription with a recorded suspect reading"}}},{"id":"source-16tai70","title":"增刪卜易 · 六親歌章第五","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/5","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Historical relational assignments","summary":"The Six Kin chapter lists parents, siblings, offspring, wealth and officials relative to palace phases.","locate":"Chapter five's palace lists and Qian example; the later Yuanjian an passage is a separate commentary layer.","limit":"Keep the modern note separate from transmitted wording. The site's phase function formulates the listed assignments; modern commentary is not direct evidence of historical wording.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 六親歌章第五","responsibility":"Transmitted text with separate modern Yuanjian commentary; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"第五章 · 本次读取 oldid 2100292","edition":"Online transcription with modern annotation distinguished from historical text"}}},{"id":"source-17n9b9x","title":"增刪卜易 · 世應章第六","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/6","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Historical host–response rules","summary":"The host–response chapter uses Qian's eight figures to locate the host and its response three positions away.","locate":"Chapter six, from the root host at line 6 to wandering soul at 4 and returning soul at 3. Compare Tiandi Guan here with Fengdi Guan in the chart.","limit":"The name discrepancy is retained. The site uses the chart's Xun-over-Kun figure without claiming a critical edition. Host–response labels do not directly identify real persons.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 世應章第六","responsibility":"Transmitted Zengshan Buyi text; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"第六章 · 本次读取 oldid 2100291","edition":"Online transcription compared internally with the Eight-Palace charts"}}},{"id":"source-17d9pky","title":"增刪卜易 · 動變章第七","url":"https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/7","host":"zh.wikisource.org","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Historical transformation rules","summary":"The transformation chapter gives polarity changes and retains the original reference for transformed kin, with examples including Xu to Song.","locate":"Chapter seven's Xu/Song diagrams and closing kin rule. Shen at line 4 is marked moving; the later statement about non-moving Shen is logged separately as a diagram–prose discrepancy.","limit":"The exercise declares changes at 1, 3, 4 and 6 without assuming away the discrepancy. Complete transformed structure and actual moving lines are distinguished. Predictive performance has not been established.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 動變章第七","responsibility":"Transmitted Zengshan Buyi text; Wikisource transcription","identifier":"第七章 · 本次读取 oldid 2100290","edition":"Online transcription; diagram, prose and editorial exercise kept distinct"}}},{"id":"source-17a9r4q","title":"增刪卜易 · 大连图书馆记录4987","url":"https://www.dl-library.net.cn/book/481/zeng-buyi-480936.html","host":"dl-library.net.cn","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"纳甲六爻","href":"/en/arts/liuyao","kind":"dossier"}],"note":{"type":"Library catalogue record","summary":"Dalian Library's Zengshan Buyi entry gives record 4987, call number 1862-21 and accession 7352.","locate":"Inspect the first contributor Yehe Laoren (Qing), language Japanese and Mantetsu-material fields. No confirmed publication year is supplied.","limit":"Catalogue-only review without page-image examination. Retain Japanese as the recorded language rather than inferring a Chinese-language copy. Contributor era does not date the item.","reviewed":"2026-10-26","bibliography":{"title":"增刪卜易 · 大连图书馆记录4987","responsibility":"First contributor catalogued as Yehe Laoren (Qing); Dalian Library catalogue","identifier":"记录号4987 · 索书号1862-21 · 登录号7352","holding":"Dalian Library","edition":"Recorded language: Japanese; Mantetsu material; publication year unconfirmed"}}},{"id":"source-1g7zqcg","title":"International Dunhuang Programme: digital collections","url":"https://idp.bl.uk/","host":"idp.bl.uk","format":"web","contexts":[{"title":"Dunhuang manuscripts and digital humanities","href":"/en/history#sui-tang-dunhuang","kind":"resource"}],"note":{"type":"Cross-collection digital resource","summary":"The International Dunhuang Programme brings together online collections from the Eastern Silk Roads, with collection search, learning resources and thematic content.","locate":"At item level, record the shelfmark, holding institution, image side or sequence and original item link.","limit":"The portal alone cannot establish an individual manuscript's date or reading. Check item-specific rights before reusing images.","reviewed":"2026-10-24"}}],"cases":[{"id":"dunhuang-counts","title":"One atlas, two star counts","question":"Do published totals use the same counting convention?","observation":"The study abstract gives 1,339 stars; the IDP guide gives 1,345, a difference of six.","interpretation":"Register each number with its source and locator. The difference is reproducible; its cause requires examination of counted objects and versions.","limit":"Neither total is selected as correct, and no typographical error is presumed.","href":"/en/arts/celestial-omens#research-time","sources":["https://idp.bl.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THE-DUNHUANG-CHINESE-SKY_-A-COMPREHENSIVE-STUDY-OF-THE-OLDEST-KNOWN-STAR-ATLAS.pdf","https://idp.bl.uk/discover/learning/chinese-astronomy/articles/the-chinese-sky/the-dunhuang-star-atlas/"]},{"id":"liuren-binding","title":"Two juan, seven volumes","question":"Must textual divisions equal bound units?","observation":"The Yuding Liuren Zhizhi catalogue uses two juan and seven volumes for textual and bound divisions.","interpretation":"Keep separate fields for juan and bound volumes and retain record 102334182. Contents across the set are needed to identify each volume's scope.","limit":"Catalogue fields do not replace inspection; unequal counts are not classified as an error.","href":"/en/arts/daliuren#research-depth","sources":["https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102334182"]},{"id":"qimen-layer","title":"Two movements above one earth plate","question":"Can a star and gate share one rotation?","observation":"At Jia-Zi, Yi-Chou and Bing-Yin in Yang 1, Tianpeng occupies 1, 9, 8; Rest occupies 1, 2, 3.","interpretation":"Separate earth, star and gate layers to trace their initial coincidence and later separation. A single perimeter rotation cannot express these sequences.","limit":"Only the three cited times are reconstructed, not every school or full spirit plate.","href":"/en/arts/qimen-dunjia#research-qimen-layers","sources":["https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E9%81%81%E7%94%B2%E6%BC%94%E7%BE%A9_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)/%E5%85%A8%E8%A6%BD"]},{"id":"taiyi-remainders","title":"Three intermediate remainders","question":"Can the result be checked through each operation?","observation":"1,937,281 mod 360 = 121; 121 mod 72 = 49; 49 mod 24 = 1.","interpretation":"Each operation retains dividend, divisor, quotient and remainder. The resulting 1 belongs to this declared reduction chain, not to an inferred modern year.","limit":"Epoch conversion, exclusion conventions and exact-division boundaries are not covered; this is not a date converter.","href":"/en/arts/taiyi#taiyi-lab","sources":["https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B9%99%E9%87%91%E9%8F%A1%E5%BC%8F%E7%B6%93_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)/%E5%8D%B701"]},{"id":"taiyi-coordinates","title":"One number, different directions","question":"Are Taiyi and Luoshu palace numbers interchangeable?","observation":"The cited Taiyi numbering places 1 at Qian in the northwest; Luoshu places 1 at Kan in the north. The eight-palace circuit excludes centre 5.","interpretation":"Carry system, direction and trigram with every number. Two diagrams with shared orientation make the displacement visible.","limit":"The teaching diagram is a textual reconstruction, not an excavated object or historical plate.","href":"/en/arts/taiyi#research-taiyi-palace-numbers","sources":["https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B9%99%E9%87%91%E9%8F%A1%E5%BC%8F%E7%B6%93_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)/%E5%8D%B702"]},{"id":"taiyi-roles","title":"Host and guest depend on context","question":"Is the first mover always the guest?","observation":"Volume four makes the first mover guest in a field array and host in a settled-position scenario.","interpretation":"Record scenario before action order and role label, keeping an isolated formula from becoming a universal definition.","limit":"For historical semantics and conditional analysis, not advice on real conflict.","href":"/en/arts/taiyi#research-taiyi-host-guest","sources":["https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E5%A4%AA%E4%B9%99%E9%87%91%E9%8F%A1%E5%BC%8F%E7%B6%93_(%E5%9B%9B%E5%BA%AB%E5%85%A8%E6%9B%B8%E6%9C%AC)/%E5%8D%B704"]},{"id":"liuyao-reference","title":"Xu to Song: retain Kun-earth","question":"Which palace sets kin on a transformed line?","observation":"Changing Xu at lines 1, 3, 4 and 6 yields Song. Line 4 changes from Shen-metal offspring to Wu-fire parent, relative to Kun-earth throughout.","interpretation":"The transformed figure supplies branches; kin retains the original reference. The two steps use information for distinct purposes.","limit":"A declared-input exercise; the chapter's diagram–prose discrepancy is separately logged. No real consultation-outcome data are claimed.","href":"/en/arts/liuyao#liuyao-lab","sources":["https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/3/%E5%85%AB%E5%8D%A6%E5%90%84%E5%AE%AE%E5%85%A8%E5%9C%96","https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%A2%9E%E5%88%AA%E5%8D%9C%E6%98%93/7"]},{"id":"catalogue-language","title":"Catalogue language and contributor era","question":"Do a Chinese title and Qing attribution identify an edition?","observation":"Dalian Library record 4987 lists Japanese language and Yehe Laoren of the Qing; call number 1862-21, accession 7352.","interpretation":"Retain the catalogue fields, separating contributor era from an unconfirmed publication year.","limit":"The item and page images have not been inspected; the title alone cannot justify changing the language field.","href":"/en/arts/liuyao#research-liuyao-witnesses","sources":["https://www.dl-library.net.cn/book/481/zeng-buyi-480936.html"]}],"methodology":"Counts describe currently published content. Sources are deduplicated by full URL, so chapters of one work can count separately. Book leads are deduplicated by Chinese title and do not represent holdings. Chapter counts cover detailed studies only. Annotation and bibliography totals are neither independent-evidence counts nor quality scores. Review dates record editorial reading, not real-time link availability."}