SIDE BY SIDE
Compare mantic systems
Read systems against shared questions to identify common language, procedural differences and distinct limits.
| Dimension | 堪舆与风水 ↗ | 河图、洛书与九宫 ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Fengshui and environmental arts | Divination and correlative foundations |
| Inputs | Site plan, orientation method, terrain, time and school | Edition-specific image, number positions and caption |
| Procedural structure | Form traditions emphasize mountain chains, nodes, protective forms and water. Compass traditions map direction, stems-branches, hexagram qi and time. Sanhe, Sanyuan-Xuankong, Flying Stars, Eight Mansions, living and burial approaches use distinct scales and rules. | Hetu-Luoshu diagrams arrange numbers spatially and interpret generation and change through yin-yang, the five phases, direction and cycles. The Nine Palaces coordinate number, time and position around a center and eight directions. |
| Formation | Kanyu had broader Han meanings; site traditions matured from Six Dynasties through Song, with later proliferation | Concepts attested early; familiar dot diagrams largely stabilized in the Song |
| Evidence labels | Excavated evidence · Textually documented · Traditional attribution · Contested lineage or date | Textually documented · Traditional attribution · Contested lineage or date |
| Texts | Book of Dwellings / Book of Burial / Qingnang Jing / Hanlong and Yilong classics / Dunhuang residence and burial manuals | Zhouyi, Xici / Documents, Great Plan / Introduction to Yijing Learning |
| Limits | Authorship and date of texts such as the Book of Burial are disputed, and schools are not uniform. Their landscape, architectural and ritual history can be studied without presenting mantic causality as modern geography. | The dragon-horse and divine turtle are cultural origin narratives; early textual mentions do not prove that Song dot diagrams descended unchanged from Fuxi or Yu. |
| Research question | Which data support physical description and which support symbolic arrangement? | Do labels, number sequences and directions agree across editions? |