參考 · Cānkǎo
The shared vocabulary of Chinese cosmology.
Chinese metaphysical systems — the I Ching, BaZi, Feng Shui, Chinese medicine — share a common reference vocabulary of elements, directions, seasons, stems and branches. Other concepts, like hexagrams and palaces, belong specifically to the Book of Changes. This page categorizes every reference entity on the site by its scope so you can navigate directly to whichever layer you need.
Shared across Chinese cosmology. These references underpin the I Ching but also BaZi, Feng Shui, traditional medicine, and the lunar calendar.
Specific to the Book of Changes. Trigrams, hexagrams, palaces, and the correspondence system Jing Fang built on top of them.