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Compare mantic systems
Read systems against shared questions to identify common language, procedural differences and distinct limits.
| Dimension | 扬雄《太玄》 ↗ | 蓍筮与《周易》 ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Yijing-derived and correlative systems | Divination and correlative foundations |
| Inputs | Heads, appraisals, diagrams and edition notes | Procedure edition, operation log and line values |
| Procedural structure | Each line has three states; four lines yield eighty-one tetragrams, with nine appraisals describing positions within each. The system also coordinates regions, calendrical degrees and the five phases. | 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 | Late Western Han | Layered formation from Western Zhou through the Warring States |
| Evidence labels | Textually documented | Excavated evidence · Textually documented · Traditional attribution |
| Texts | Taixuan / Book of Han, Biography of Yang Xiong / Commentaries by Fan Wang, Sima Guang and others | Zhou Changes and its Wings / Divination accounts in the Zuo Tradition and Discourses of the States / Tsinghua bamboo manuscript Shifa |
| Limits | The Taixuan is neither an ordinary sixty-four-hexagram method nor a set of modern fate-calculation formulas. | 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 does structural hierarchy locate an appraisal? | How do moving-line conventions change the passage selected? |