Institute of Chinese Mantic Arts中国术数研究院

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Follow pattern into principle.
Test tradition against the record of time.

The Institute of Chinese Mantic Arts is an independent global research and education initiative. We build a systematic atlas, reconstruct methods, distinguish history from lineage, and develop rigorous education and internal credentials—preserving mystery without sacrificing verifiability.

Enter the atlasExplore three millennia of history
Image, number, time and position: a living map of Chinese knowledge
MANTICARTSEST. MMXXVICHINESE MANTIC STUDIES
01Research

Mantic arts & Yijing

Primary texts, archaeology, institutions, objects and living traditions

View the research method02Education

Foundation to specialization

Yijing, calendars, individual systems and research method

Explore learning paths03Credentials

Internal study credentials

Published hours, assessment, appeals, revocation and serial-verification rules

View the credential system04Connection

A global community

Researchers, institutions, city events and multilingual publishing

Join & collaborate

00The institute at a glance

Scale, knowledge architecture and participation—made explicit on the home page.

The institute integrates knowledge organization, historical research, method training, assessment and global collaboration. Every number and entry below leads to substantive content.

34core dossiers
09knowledge families
15historical nodes
08research fields
05credential levels
03site languages
01KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge & sources

What Chinese mantic arts are, how they formed and what textual evidence supports them.

02ACADEMY

Research, courses & credentials

Research steps, learning levels, assessment and integrity rules are stated in full.

03INSTITUTE

Institute, events & collaboration

Governance, affiliations, event formats and partnership requirements in auditable form.

TPublic standards & trust mechanisms

Trust rests on
a record that can be followed.

From a historical date to an institute credential, sources, editions, methods, review, updates and limits sit on one traceable chain, supported by public mechanisms and records that can be checked.

34Dossiers documented one by one

Each states names, principles, history, texts, evidence layers, debates and limits.

Check the dossiers04Evidence layers

Traditional, archaeological, textual and institutional evidence remain distinct.

View the evidence model06Research steps

Name, establish edition, date, reconstruct, compare and evaluate—with version records.

Review the method05Credential levels

Hours, outputs, scoring, appeals, verification, revocation and legal status are published.

Inspect credential rules
Researchers conducting peer review around edition and citation records
An edition-comparison desk with textual witnesses, collation tools and archive cards
An archivist examining paper, binding and ink to establish provenance
A digital-humanities station scanning and cataloguing a rare book

PROTOCOLPublic standards & trust mechanisms

How an item enters the institute record

A claim must pass four explainable stages. New material or errors trigger a documented revision.

  1. 01

    Locate the source

    Record provenance, edition, fascicle, material type and access date.

  2. 02

    Compare witnesses

    Set variants, composition dates, surviving witnesses and modern editions side by side.

  3. 03

    Review the method

    A second researcher repeats the key steps from the same record.

  4. 04

    Publish the revision

    Retain update date, basis for change, current status and responsible stage.

Long-term credibility requires room for challenge.

Report a miscitation, dating conflict, missing edition, translation ambiguity or credential anomaly through JesunsWu@gmail.com. We check the source record and revise or withdraw when warranted.

Comparative display of Qimen, Taiyi and Da Liu Ren research instruments
A research table of Ziwei, calendrical instruments and counting rods
A textual transmission workshop of woodblock carving, printing, collation and binding
Researchers conducting directional and topographic fieldwork in a mountain valley
International participants studying folios and historical instruments in a conservation workshop
Global scholars holding an evening documentary roundtable in a courtyard library

01Panoramic atlas of Chinese mantic arts

Nine families. Thirty-four core dossiers.
A growing index of branches.

Each dossier states names, dates, principles, texts, transformations, debates and limits while preserving differences among the arts.

A panoramic research table organizing nine families of mantic knowledge through objects and geometry
01Divination and correlative foundations502Yijing-derived and correlative systems703The Three Cosmic Boards and spatiotemporal methods504Fate calculation and astral nativities605Celestial omens and signs306Fengshui and environmental arts107Physiognomy and bodily observation108Date selection and almanac traditions109Dreams, characters and popular divination5

Representative dossiers

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A conceptual layered rotating nine-palace board with gate, star and instrument counters on a directional decision table; it contains no magical portal, fabricated historical battle map or readable pseudo-talisman.01The Three Cosmic Boards and spatiotemporal methods

奇门遁甲

Qímén Dùnjiǎ

A nine-palace system placing the Three Wonders, Six Instruments, Eight Gates, Nine Stars and spirits according to season, date and yin-yang rotation to analyze timing, direction and action.

A conceptual twelve-palace square chart with a central field, star counters and four-transformation flows; it is neither a Western zodiac nor a literal astronomical map and contains no real client's chart.02Fate calculation and astral nativities

紫微斗数

Zǐwēi Dǒushù

A natal chart assigns life and body palaces from lunar birth data and places symbolic stars, auxiliaries and four transformations across twelve palaces to interpret themes and periods.

A conceptual image of nested yuan-hui-yun-shi time rings, hexagram sequences and sound-number bands; it is not a doomsday clock, precise future prophecy or Western zodiac chart.03Yijing-derived and correlative systems

皇极经世

Huángjí Jīngshì

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.

A conceptual composition of plum branches, observed surroundings, number counters and primary-mutual-changing hexagram relations; it does not present the plum-blossom story as verified history or imply Shao Yong's authorship through portraiture.04Yijing-derived and correlative systems

梅花易数

Méihuā Yìshù

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.

A conceptual six-line register with stem-branch counters, host-response positions and changing relations; it does not reduce the full Najia system to three coins or present one layout as universal.05Yijing-derived and correlative systems

纳甲六爻

Nàjiǎ Liùyáo

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.

A conceptual study of four stem-branch columns, a seasonal month-command ring, ten-role relations and period bands; it uses no real birth data and depicts neither deterministic life outcomes nor a Western zodiac wheel.06Fate calculation and astral nativities

四柱子平命理

Sìzhù Zǐpíng Mìnglǐ

Birth year, month, day and hour are each expressed as a stem-branch pillar; the day stem anchors analysis of ten relations, phases, patterns, seasonal adjustment, major cycles and years.

A conceptual study of birth-time columns, Hetu-Luoshu number tables and life-sequence calculations; it is not identical to general diagrammatic Hetu-Luoshu or Four-Pillar calculation and uses no real personal data.07Yijing-derived and correlative systems

河洛理数

Héluò Lǐshù

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.

A conceptual heaven-earth board with Four Lessons, Three Transmissions and twelve-general counters; it does not use a Qimen nine-palace layout or present a generated chart as an authentic historical case.08The Three Cosmic Boards and spatiotemporal methods

大六壬

Dà Liùrén

A heaven-earth board places the monthly general over the divination hour; Four Lessons are built from the day stem-branch, followed by Three Transmissions, generals and lesson patterns to model a matter's origin, development and resolution.

A conceptual arrangement of black-and-white counters, two spatial number diagrams and a central nine-palace field; it does not present Song diagrams as prehistoric originals or use dragon-horse and turtle myths as dating evidence.09Divination and correlative foundations

河图、洛书与九宫

Hétú, Luòshū yǔ Jiǔgōng

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.

A conceptual still life of sealed numbered drawers, sequence counters, calendrical drafts and blank oracle folios; it contains no readable prophecy, guaranteed verdict or portrait used to prove historical authorship.10Fate calculation and astral nativities

铁板神数

Tiěbǎn Shénshù

A family of methods encoding birth stems-branches, minute divisions, Hetu-Luoshu hexagram numbers and kin data to retrieve numbered life statements, known for calibrating the birth time.

A conceptual hand-counting mnemonic with six cyclical nodes and month-day-hour sequences; it is not an ancient hand-formula record and does not claim a proven direct lineage from Great Liuren.11The Three Cosmic Boards and spatiotemporal methods

小六壬

Xiǎo Liùrén

A quick hand mnemonic cycling month, day and hour through six states: Great Peace, Lingering, Swift Joy, Red Mouth, Small Fortune and Emptiness.

A conceptual terrain model with watercourses, settlement structure and compass directions; it depicts no glowing literal dragon vein, claims no modern scientific validation and identifies no real burial site.12Fengshui and environmental arts

堪舆与风水

Kānyú yǔ Fēngshuǐ

A family of site-selection traditions combining landform, water, orientation, time, yin-yang, phases and compass layers for dwellings, settlements and burials.

An institute corridor where seasonal light passes across calendrical and astronomical instruments

02A history of Chinese mantic arts

From cracks in bone to digital humanities:
how knowledge was invented, copied and reinterpreted.

Our timeline marks traditional, excavated, textual and institutional evidence. We retain the cultural force of origin stories while separating them from datable history and later attribution.

A material sequence from oracle bone, bronze and bamboo through print to digital archive
  1. 01c. 13th-11th centuries BCE

    Questions cut in bone: Shang royal divination

    From ritual act to cumulative political and temporal archive.

  2. 02Western Zhou through Warring States

    From cracks to stalks: the layered formation of the Zhou Changes

    A divination manual acquires cosmological and ethical layers.

  3. 035th-3rd centuries BCE

    Warring States modeling: yin-yang, phases and daybooks

    Mantic arts become everyday technologies of time.

  4. 04221 BCE-220 CE

    Imperial classification: Qin-Han convergence

    Scattered techniques enter an imperial order of catalogs, bureaus and commentary.

  5. 05220-589

    Between canon and metaphysics: the Six Dynasties

    One classic supports intersecting philosophical and technical traditions.

  6. 06589-960

    Dunhuang's everyday cosmos: Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties

    Mantic knowledge circulates through state, temple, market and household networks.

  7. 07960-1279

    Diagrammatic Yijing and the print revolution: Song

    Manuscript knowledge becomes reproducible, collatable and publicly debated print.

  8. 081271-1368

    Measuring heaven and establishing schools: Yuan

    Technical knowledge enters local schools and professional identities.

Evidence layers

Tradition: cultural memory and later genealogy, not direct chronological evidence.

Excavated: supported by archaeological context, dating or verifiable objects.

Text: attested in received works, though authorship and dating may remain debated.

Institution: documented in bureaus, catalogs, education or state calendars.

Read the full history

03The institute's four core functions

Shared standards for preservation,
research, teaching and credentials.

Research and education in both mantic arts and the Yijing form one institute framework. Credentials attest only to internal study and do not imitate state degrees or professional licenses.

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Mantic arts research

Build genealogies; compare structures; study manuscripts, editions, objects and contemporary transmission.

02

Mantic arts education

Move from history, phases and calendars into Six Lines, Bazi, Qimen, Liuren, Ziwei and specialist paths.

03

Yijing research

Distinguish text and Wings; connect numerical hexagrams, Han, Song, Qing and excavated traditions.

04

Yijing education

Teach primary-text reading, correlative method, classical-language preparation, reconstruction and comparison.

An internal credential worktable organized around issuance, serial identity, review and archival preservation

04Institute internal credentials

Demonstrate depth through reproducible work.

Five levels cover foundations, specialist study, comparative method, independent research and curriculum design. Each publishes learning hours, required work, assessment, revocation and legal status.

View the credential system

05Global in-person network

Bring texts, instruments and the night sky
back into shared physical presence.

Annual forums, manuscript schools, city intensives, museum walks, practitioner roundtables and public observation nights form the institute's global program matrix. Every city program follows common standards for scholarship, venue, safety and publication.

Global events & city partnershipsJoin the institute
International scholars discussing texts, objects and calendrical astronomy around a courtyard table

Contact & collaboration

Bring dispersed texts, methods and experience
into a community of inquiry.

We welcome scholars, lineage holders, translators, publishers, museums, libraries, technologists and city hosts to propose research, education, publication and event partnerships.

Write to the instituteJesunsWu@gmail.com