OPEN STUDY / 02

Five Phases and correspondences

Distinguish category names, relational sequences and source-specific mappings.

About 3 min
Study notes & citation

Five Phases and correspondences. Institute of Chinese Mantic Arts. https://www.manticarts.com/en/learning/five-phases

01

Read and understand

Read the glossary and record relational terms in your chosen text. Source every correspondence to color, direction or season.

02

Practice

Build a sourced relation table and examine its use in one system. Distinguish shared relations from method-specific conventions.

03

Output and reflection

Output: a relation table and a full citation. Identify classification, computational rule and interpretation separately.

Personal study record; not a grade, assessment or credential.

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