易Mantic arts dossier · Yijing-derived and correlative systems
纳甲六爻
Nàjiǎ Liùyáo·Six-Line Najia divination
A hexagram method assigning branches, phases, six relations, host-response positions and six spirits, then reading season, day, change and strength; one of the most active Yijing divination systems today.
- Aliases
- Liuyao, Huozhulin, Wenwangke, coin divination
- Formation
- Han roots; gradual formation after the Tang-Song; mature frameworks in Ming-Qing
- Evidence status
Study notes & citation
纳甲六爻. Institute of Mantic Arts. https://www.manticarts.com/en/arts/liuyao
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01Core principles
Core principles
Translate formulas into structure: what enters, how the model is arranged, and which relations drive interpretation.
After casting primary, moving and changed hexagrams, branches, six relations and host-response positions are assigned through Eight-Palace Najia. A focal relation is selected for the question and evaluated through month, day, combination, clash, production, control, void and change.
Key concepts
- focal relation
- six relations
- host and response
- monthly and daily influences
02Origins and historical development
Origins and historical development
Keep traditional accounts, surviving evidence and later transformations distinct.
Han Najia and Eight-Palace ideas are remote sources. Tang-Song Huozhulin literature shaped a topic-oriented method; Ming-Qing works such as Huangjin Ce, Zengshan Buyi and Bushi Zhengzong stabilized much of today's rule vocabulary.
TEXT / METHOD / EVIDENCE
Eight Palaces, branch placement and relational roles
A Six Lines diagram combines polarity, palace membership, branches, phases, host–response positions and change. Following each dependency reveals where a label comes from and where the transmitted wording needs scrutiny.
Title, attribution and catalogue language
This study reads the Eight-Palace charts and chapters four through seven of an online Zengshan Buyi transcription. Branch assignment, kin relations, host–response positions and changing lines can be compared within that transmitted text. Five web locators belong to one work; they do not constitute five independent historical witnesses. This review does not establish the earliest origin of the Six Lines tradition.
Dalian Library record 4987 gives call number 1862-21, accession 7352 and Yehe Laoren of the Qing as first responsible contributor. Its language field says Japanese and it labels the item Mantetsu material. These are catalogue statements. Without inspecting the item, the language should not be silently changed to Chinese, and an attributed contributor's dynasty cannot date this copy's printing. The page supplies no confirmed publication year, so that field remains open here.
Bottom upward: three branches for each trigram position
Chapter four assigns three branches separately to each trigram in the inner and outer positions. The inner trigram occupies lines 1–3 and the outer lines 4–6; both assignments run upward. Qian below takes Zi, Yin and Chen; Qian above takes Wu, Shen and Xu. For Gou, with Xun below Qian, the bottom-up sequence is Chou, Hai, You, Wu, Shen, Xu. Drawing the upper trigram at the top does not reverse line numbering.
The transcription labels one pair of entries Chen inside and Chen outside, although Chen is a branch, not a trigram name. Here the sequences Chen–Wu–Shen and Xu–Zi–Yin are displayed under Gen, following the same work's Gen-over-Gen chart. That is a declared editorial normalization pending image collation. The experiment covers branch assignment only. It omits heavenly stems, whose assignments within the broader Najia system require a separate check.
How sixty-four figures enter eight palaces
Each palace begins with a doubled trigram, giving eight families of eight figures. The Qian sequence is Qian, Gou, Dun, Pi, Guan, Bo, Jin and Dayou. Starting from doubled Qian, change lines 1 through 5 cumulatively for the first six members; revert line 4 for the wandering-soul member, then change the lower three lines for the returning-soul member. This is a classification sequence, not a claim that every consultation moves through all eight steps.
Palace membership fixes the phase reference for the later kin calculation. A figure with Li above need not belong to the Li palace: locate the complete six-line pattern in the eight-family classification. The experiment identifies membership from polarity and displays its stage: root, first through fifth generation, wandering soul or returning soul. Figure and category can then be checked together rather than inferred from a familiar name.
Checking host and response against palace stage
Chapter six illustrates the host and response through the Qian palace. The root's host is line 6; generations one through five place it at lines 1–5; wandering soul places it at 4 and returning soul at 3. Response lies three positions away. Thus host positions 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3 pair with responses 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 1, 6. The experiment marks these on the original figure and does not add a separate host–response pair to its transformed column.
The reviewed chapter-six transcription calls the fourth transformed member Tiandi Guan, while the full chart gives Fengdi Guan. This page uses the chart's Xun-above-Kun structure and preserves the naming discrepancy in its note. Here host and response are checkable procedural labels. Applying them to persons, relationships or situations requires the particular text and question conditions to be stated separately.
Which reference generates a kin label?
Chapter five lists kin assignments by palace phase: Qian and Dui are metal, Kan water, Gen and Kun earth, Zhen and Xun wood, and Li fire. Compare each branch's phase with the original palace phase. Equality gives siblings; a phase generating the reference gives parents; one generated by it gives offspring; one controlled by it gives wealth; one controlling it gives officials. The traditional Six Kin label here encompasses these five categories, not six mutually exclusive categories assigned one per line.
The same Zi-water line is offspring relative to Qian-metal, wealth relative to Kun-earth and sibling relative to Kan-water. The branch and its phase stay fixed while the reference changes. The chapter-five webpage also includes a modern note marked Yuanjian an. Keep that commentary distinct from transmitted text. This site's relational model is an editorial formulation of the listed palace assignments; it does not retroactively attribute the modern note to the historical work.
After a line changes, retain the original kin reference
Chapter seven changes moving yang to yin and moving yin to yang, and retains the original figure's reference when assigning kin to transformed lines. The experiment accepts an original figure and selected changes, derives the transformed trigrams and assigns their branches. Their kin roles still use the original palace phase. Only selected moving lines display transformed results; other rows are marked static. This prevents a changed trigram's full branch reassignment from being mistaken for six active changes.
Xu, Kan above Qian, belongs to Kun-earth. Changing lines 1, 3, 4 and 6 produces Song, Qian above Kan. At line 4, Shen-metal offspring becomes Wu-fire parent relative to earth. Replacing the reference with Song's independent Li-fire palace would incorrectly label that Wu-fire as sibling in this transformation. A preset preserves the example; removing individual changes shows where figure, branch and role each respond.
Diagram–prose discrepancies and the limits of a result
In chapter seven's Xu-to-Song diagram, line 4 Shen is marked moving, while later prose says that Shen does not transform when it does not move. This page records the diagram, wording and chosen exercise inputs separately rather than forcing them into agreement. A discrepancy log should retain the passage, reading, editorial treatment, comparison locator and the still-needed image witness. Those fields allow later collation to revisit the decision.
Checkable results include unique palace membership for all sixty-four figures, a three-position host–response separation, consistent upward branch assignment and retention of the original kin reference. The study omits day and month influences, void branches, hidden lines, six spirits, strength judgments and significator selection. It produces no personal forecasts. Testing predictive claims requires predefined questions, time horizons, scoring criteria, full outcome records and an independent treatment of sampling. Report textual reconstruction and performance testing separately.
STRUCTURE / 064
Palaces and kin on changing lines
Select the inner and outer trigrams, then toggle moving lines. Figure, branch and kin appear in layers, with the original palace phase always visible.
Lines are numbered 1–6 upward. Selecting a new original clears changes; the transformed column shows only selected moving lines.
- 6Xu · EarthSiblingYang
- 5Static
- 4HostWu · FireParentYang
- 3Wu · FireParentYin
- 2Static
- 1ResponseYin · WoodOfficialYin
Teaching model based on the Eight-Palace charts and chapters 4–7 of Zengshan Buyi. Branches, palaces, host–response and kin only; no stems, dates, spirits, hidden lines or prognostication.
Inner and outer branch reference
| Trigram | Inner: lines 1–3 | Outer: lines 4–6 |
|---|---|---|
| Kun | Wei · Si · Mao | Chou · Hai · You |
| Zhen | Zi · Yin · Chen | Wu · Shen · Xu |
| Kan | Yin · Chen · Wu | Shen · Xu · Zi |
| Dui | Si · Mao · Chou | Hai · You · Wei |
| Gen | Chen · Wu · Shen | Xu · Zi · Yin |
| Li | Mao · Chou · Hai | You · Wei · Si |
| Xun | Chou · Hai · You | Wei · Si · Mao |
| Qian | Zi · Yin · Chen | Wu · Shen · Xu |
A four-step research record
Register witness and discrepancies
Separate transcription locators, catalogue fields and image-review status; never substitute an author's dynasty for a copy date.
Identify figure and palace
Record polarity upward from line 1, locate palace stage, and fix host, response and reference phase.
Assign branches and kin
Read the inner and outer branch triples, calculate each relation to the original palace and retain intermediate values.
Check each moving line
Record selected positions, transformed trigrams and branches; retain the original reference and identify static lines separately.
WORKED EXAMPLE
From material to claim
Original exercise: choose Xu with moving lines 1, 3, 4 and 6. Use the Eight-Palace chart and chapter-seven rule to inspect branch and kin at line 4.
The original belongs to Kun-earth at the wandering-soul stage, host 4 and response 1. Its transformation is Song. Line 4 changes from Shen-metal offspring to Wu-fire parent, retaining Kun-earth throughout. This reconstructs relations for declared inputs, not a dated consultation with a recorded real-world outcome.
- Are lines numbered upward?
- Does the kin reference remain Kun-earth?
- Are only selected lines marked moving?
Review questions
Must a Qian-palace figure have Qian above?
Palace membership follows the six-line sequence. Guan and Jin belong to Qian while having Xun and Li above.
When does the transformed figure's own palace mislead?
Kin on transformed moving lines retains the original figure's reference. Substituting the transformed figure's independent palace changes the stated rule.
Why does this Six Kin model contain five categories?
The five-phase relations generate parents, siblings, offspring, wealth and officials. Six Kin is the traditional collective name used here.
Can a Chinese title override the catalogue's Japanese language field?
Retain the recorded field and disclose the lack of item or image inspection. Language and format need additional evidence.
Does exhaustive reconstruction validate prediction?
It checks internal procedural consistency. Predictive performance needs independent samples, explicit scoring and complete outcomes.
STUDY / Nàjiǎ Liùyáo
Auditing Six Lines chart construction
- Materials and inputs
- Casting method, line values, month/day and rule edition
Research question
Which input change alters a chart's interpretation?
Practical exercise
Create a fictional exercise and audit branches, kinship roles, host/guest and changes. Ask a second reader to reconstruct independently before comparing interpretations.
Study pathYijing: from figures to texts03Evidence limits and research debates
Evidence limits and research debates
Distinguish traditional interpretations, documented material and claims requiring testing.
The name Wenwangke does not demonstrate invention by King Wen. Schools differ over void periods, advancing-retreating signs, hidden lines and timing.
This dossier supports historical, textual and methodological study. Internal traditional explanations are not modern empirical validation and do not replace medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
04Core texts and materials
Core texts and materials
- 01Huozhulin
- 02Huangjin Ce
- 03Zengshan Buyi
- 04Bushi Zhengzong