MANTICARTS / RESEARCH RECORD
This inventory describes the site's published dossiers, sources, lessons and worked records. Every count leads back to entries, including the source work still outstanding.
01 / COVERAGE
These are content totals. Several locators may belong to one work. They are not counts of independent research findings, collection objects or members, and they do not measure predictive accuracy.
Inspect sources and reading notes02 / RECORDS
34 / 34 dossiers
A pyromantic decision system using prepared turtle shell or animal bone whose cracks were interpreted; it is the earliest Chinese divinatory institution documented by a large surviving archive.
A method producing a six-line hexagram and changing lines with counting stalks, interpreted through line statements and later correlative reasoning; it became a canonical hub for Yijing studies and many later arts.
Excavated traditions in which numbers such as one, four, five, six, eight and nine directly formed line positions, revealing a plurality of methods before and alongside standardized yin-yang lines.
Spatial-numerical models of parity, generative numbers, center, cardinal and corner positions; a foundational node for the Three Boards, fengshui, date selection and Song correlative Yijing studies.
Correlations of hexagrams and lines with months, seasonal nodes, stems, branches, phases, pitch and waxing-waning cycles; a technical substrate for Six Lines, fate calculation and some fengshui systems.
A corpus of more than four thousand rhymed oracles indexed by primary and resulting hexagrams, valuable as divination manual, poetry, folklore and Han social evidence.
Yang Xiong's ternary symbolic cosmology of eighty-one tetragrams and 729 appraisals, coordinated with calendar, seasons and phases: modeled on the Changes yet independent.
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.
A flexible method taking hexagrams from time, numbers, sound, direction, characters or encountered images and interpreting change through body-function roles, phase relations, nuclear hexagrams and external correspondences.
A model of cosmic and historical time using pre-celestial hexagram orders and nested yuan-hui-yun-shi cycles, connecting correlative number, sound, history and political change.
A Ming-Qing system converting birth stems and branches into heaven-earth numbers and pre/post-celestial natal hexagrams, then using an original line and temporal changes to interpret life stages.
Twelve marked tokens are cast into upper, middle and lower groups to form one of 125 figures with an attached oracle; an independent compact method widely transmitted in medieval times.
One of the Three Boards, arranging Taiyi and associated agents through accumulated years, epochs, nine palaces and configurations, traditionally for state affairs, warfare, disasters and long-term cycles.
A nine-palace system placing the Three Wonders, Six Instruments, Eight Gates, Nine Stars and spirits according to season, date and yin-yang rotation to analyze timing, direction and action.
A heaven-earth board places the monthly general over the divination hour; Four Lessons are built from the day stem-branch, followed by Three Transmissions, generals and lesson patterns, interpreted within the tradition as a matter's origin, development and resolution.
A compact lesson built from the ground division, general, noble spirit and human origin, interpreted through phase relations, strength and agents.
A quick hand mnemonic cycling month, day and hour through six states: Great Peace, Lingering, Swift Joy, Red Mouth, Small Fortune and Emptiness.
Birth year, month, day and hour are each expressed as a stem-branch pillar; the day stem anchors analysis of ten relations, phases, patterns, seasonal adjustment, major cycles and years.
A natal chart assigns life and body palaces from lunar birth data and places symbolic stars, auxiliaries and four transformations across twelve palaces to interpret themes and periods.
A natal system using the Sun, Moon, five visible planets and four auxiliary points with twelve houses, lunar lodges, degrees and time-lord techniques.
A system pairing the twenty-eight lunar lodges with animal symbols, birth data and dates, combined with the five phases for nativities, selection or topical divination.
A family of methods encoding birth stems-branches, minute divisions, Hetu-Luoshu hexagram numbers and kin data to retrieve numbered life statements, known for calibrating the birth time.
A textual family mapping birth data, hexagram numbers, phonology or keys to numbered life statements rather than one fully unified algorithmic school.
Observation of eclipses, comets, guest stars, planetary configurations and unusual celestial events, interpreted through star offices, terrestrial correspondences and political order.
A spatial technique mapping celestial regions, lunar lodges or Jupiter stations to terrestrial states and provinces so that an omen could be assigned to a political region.
Reading winds, cloud forms and colors, rainbows, thunder, animal behavior and unusual phenology for war, weather and affairs, at the boundary between practical observation and symbolic omenology.
A family of site-selection traditions combining landform, water, orientation, time, yin-yang, phases and compass layers for dwellings, settlements and burials.
Historical classification and analogy based on bone structure, features, complexion, voice, movement and proportion, formerly used for character, fortune, lifespan and personnel decisions.
A widely enduring temporal technology matching stems-branches, month command, seasonal nodes, Twelve Officers and other factors to marriage, travel, construction, burial and daily activities.
Interpretation of dream people, animals, objects, actions, colors, directions or puns through symbol, inversion and analogy, spanning court office, religious experience and popular dictionaries.
A contextual art beginning from a written, selected or encountered Chinese character and analyzing components, added or removed strokes, shape, sound and meaning.
A family preserved in Dunhuang fragments using five signs, phase-generative numbers, invocations and topical statements for illness, marriage, lost objects, travelers and other daily questions.
A common temple and popular religious practice drawing numbered lots or casting crescent blocks. Within the relevant faith tradition, results are interpreted as divine responses through poems, allusions or affirmative-negative-laughing signs.
Political prophecy through riddles, mandate tokens, images, scriptural correspondence and historical cycles; a major object for the study of legitimacy and textual rewriting.
03 / EVIDENCE RECORDS
Each record separates observation, editorial analysis and limits. These are textual comparisons and teaching reconstructions, without fabricated testimonials or success stories.
Do published totals use the same counting convention?
Must textual divisions equal bound units?
Can a star and gate share one rotation?
Can the result be checked through each operation?
Are Taiyi and Luoshu palace numbers interchangeable?
Is the first mover always the guest?
Which palace sets kin on a transformed line?
Do a Chinese title and Qing attribution identify an edition?
04 / DATA DICTIONARY
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.
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