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Compare mantic systems
Read systems against shared questions to identify common language, procedural differences and distinct limits.
| Dimension | 《焦氏易林》 ↗ | 蓍筮与《周易》 ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Family | Yijing-derived and correlative systems | Divination and correlative foundations |
| Inputs | Primary and changed figures, text edition and commentary | Procedure edition, operation log and line values |
| Procedural structure | Transformations among the sixty-four hexagrams produce 4,096 indexed combinations, each paired with a verse built from images, historical allusions and everyday situations. | 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 | Approximately mid-late Western Han to early Eastern Han | Layered formation from Western Zhou through the Warring States |
| Evidence labels | Textually documented · Contested lineage or date | Excavated evidence · Textually documented · Traditional attribution |
| Texts | Jiaoshi Yilin / Critical and annotated editions of the Yilin | Zhou Changes and its Wings / Divination accounts in the Zuo Tradition and Discourses of the States / Tsinghua bamboo manuscript Shifa |
| Limits | Authorship—Jiao Yanshou, Cui Zhuan or cumulative composition—remains disputed, and traditions do not agree on one casting procedure. | 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 one image change across different verses? | How do moving-line conventions change the passage selected? |