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Compare mantic systems
Read systems against shared questions to identify common language, procedural differences and distinct limits.
| Dimension | 龟卜与骨卜 ↗ | 蓍筮与《周易》 ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Divination and correlative foundations | Divination and correlative foundations |
| Inputs | Rubbing, transcription, catalogue number and dating proposal | Procedure edition, operation log and line values |
| Procedural structure | A diviner drilled or grooved the medium and applied heat before reading the resulting cracks. Late-Shang inscriptions may record date, charge, prognostication and verification, placing question, judgment and outcome in one archival chain. | The received yarrow procedure repeatedly divides, sets aside, counts by fours and collects remainders to obtain line values six through nine. The primary hexagram, changing lines and resulting hexagram form the interpretive object. |
| Formation | Prehistoric precedents; mature royal institution in the late Shang | Layered formation from Western Zhou through the Warring States |
| Evidence labels | Excavated evidence · Textually documented | Excavated evidence · Textually documented · Traditional attribution |
| Texts | Anyang oracle-bone inscriptions / Rites of Zhou, Offices of Spring / Records of the Grand Historian, Traditions of Turtle and Yarrow Diviners | Zhou Changes and its Wings / Divination accounts in the Zuo Tradition and Discourses of the States / Tsinghua bamboo manuscript Shifa |
| Limits | Oracle-bone divination should not be equated with Zhouyi divination, and its rules of crack interpretation can be reconstructed only in part. | The lineage of Fuxi, King Wen, the Duke of Zhou and Confucius is an influential traditional genealogy, not a straightforward conclusion of modern textual history. |
| Research question | How are the charge and verification distinguished on one surface? | How do moving-line conventions change the passage selected? |