龟卜与骨卜
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.
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蓍筮与《周易》
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.
数字卦与先秦筮法
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.
河图、洛书与九宫
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.
卦气、纳甲与八宫
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.
《焦氏易林》
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.
扬雄《太玄》
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.
纳甲六爻
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.
梅花易数
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.
皇极经世
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.
河洛理数
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.
灵棋经
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.