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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.

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01 / COVERAGE

Current content coverage

System dossiers: 349 subject families
Source locators: 5827 with reading notes
Text and material leads: 103Deduplicated by Chinese title
Detailed study chapters: 347 studies · 24 review questions

Entries across nine families

Reading and learning material

Sources with bibliographic fields: 22
Close readings: 4
Historical stages: 14
Glossary entries: 48
Self-study units: 12
Study paths: 6

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.

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02 / RECORDS

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3 / 34 dossiers

Celestial omens and signsDetailed study

国家星占与天象占候

Observation of eclipses, comets, guest stars, planetary configurations and unusual celestial events, interpreted through star offices, terrestrial correspondences and political order.

Source locators: 3
Reading notes: 2
Study chapters: 3
Text leads: 5

Celestial omens and signsDetailed study

分野占

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.

Source locators: 2
Reading notes: 2
Study chapters: 3
Text leads: 3

Celestial omens and signsDetailed study

风角、云气与物候杂占

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.

Source locators: 3
Reading notes: 2
Study chapters: 3
Text leads: 4

03 / EVIDENCE RECORDS

Eight reviewable evidence records

Each record separates observation, editorial analysis and limits. These are textual comparisons and teaching reconstructions, without fabricated testimonials or success stories.

One atlas, two star counts

Do published totals use the same counting convention?

Observation: The study abstract gives 1,339 stars; the IDP guide gives 1,345, a difference of six.
Analysis: Register each number with its source and locator. The difference is reproducible; its cause requires examination of counted objects and versions.
Limits: Neither total is selected as correct, and no typographical error is presumed.

Two juan, seven volumes

Must textual divisions equal bound units?

Observation: The Yuding Liuren Zhizhi catalogue uses two juan and seven volumes for textual and bound divisions.
Analysis: Keep separate fields for juan and bound volumes and retain record 102334182. Contents across the set are needed to identify each volume's scope.
Limits: Catalogue fields do not replace inspection; unequal counts are not classified as an error.

Two movements above one earth plate

Can a star and gate share one rotation?

Observation: At Jia-Zi, Yi-Chou and Bing-Yin in Yang 1, Tianpeng occupies 1, 9, 8; Rest occupies 1, 2, 3.
Analysis: Separate earth, star and gate layers to trace their initial coincidence and later separation. A single perimeter rotation cannot express these sequences.
Limits: Only the three cited times are reconstructed, not every school or full spirit plate.

Three intermediate remainders

Can the result be checked through each operation?

Observation: 1,937,281 mod 360 = 121; 121 mod 72 = 49; 49 mod 24 = 1.
Analysis: Each operation retains dividend, divisor, quotient and remainder. The resulting 1 belongs to this declared reduction chain, not to an inferred modern year.
Limits: Epoch conversion, exclusion conventions and exact-division boundaries are not covered; this is not a date converter.

One number, different directions

Are Taiyi and Luoshu palace numbers interchangeable?

Observation: The cited Taiyi numbering places 1 at Qian in the northwest; Luoshu places 1 at Kan in the north. The eight-palace circuit excludes centre 5.
Analysis: Carry system, direction and trigram with every number. Two diagrams with shared orientation make the displacement visible.
Limits: The teaching diagram is a textual reconstruction, not an excavated object or historical plate.

Host and guest depend on context

Is the first mover always the guest?

Observation: Volume four makes the first mover guest in a field array and host in a settled-position scenario.
Analysis: Record scenario before action order and role label, keeping an isolated formula from becoming a universal definition.
Limits: For historical semantics and conditional analysis, not advice on real conflict.

Xu to Song: retain Kun-earth

Which palace sets kin on a transformed line?

Observation: Changing Xu at lines 1, 3, 4 and 6 yields Song. Line 4 changes from Shen-metal offspring to Wu-fire parent, relative to Kun-earth throughout.
Analysis: The transformed figure supplies branches; kin retains the original reference. The two steps use information for distinct purposes.
Limits: A declared-input exercise; the chapter's diagram–prose discrepancy is separately logged. No real consultation-outcome data are claimed.

Catalogue language and contributor era

Do a Chinese title and Qing attribution identify an edition?

Observation: Dalian Library record 4987 lists Japanese language and Yehe Laoren of the Qing; call number 1862-21, accession 7352.
Analysis: Retain the catalogue fields, separating contributor era from an unconfirmed publication year.
Limits: The item and page images have not been inspected; the title alone cannot justify changing the language field.

04 / DATA DICTIONARY

How the data is produced and used

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.

Data-notes edition 2026-10-27

Dossiers and families: One stable identifier represents one dossier, assigned to one primary family. Cross-links do not increase the dossier count.
Sources and bibliography: sourceCount counts distinct linked URLs; annotatedSourceCount counts entries with type, locator, limits and a review date. Bibliographic fields are included only with a specific basis; gaps are not automatically filled.
Dates: reviewed is the registered editorial review date for a detailed study, or null. The page date identifies revision of these data notes, not a new collation of every source or a same-day check of every link.
Export scope: CSV contains the full dossier inventory regardless of page filters. JSON adds sources, context links, totals and eight evidence records. Exports contain no visitor queries, accounts, submitted contact details or personal cases.
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