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This is a directory of the site’s cultural knowledge graph. Nodes can grow independently; connections are explicit records that can be reviewed, revised, and expanded without rewriting every article.
How to read the map
Start with a node. Follow the arrows.
A node names one idea, text, system, concept, or term. A relation has a direction, a type, and an editorial note. “A → B” means this project records a relation from A to B; it is not automatically reversible.
The page reads directly from the central graph. It does not infer extra links from shared keywords, and a thematic comparison never means that two traditions are the same.
Nodes
Stable entries
Each card keeps a concise identity and summary. Follow “Open note” when the node has a long-form page.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao
A reading of Dao De Jing chapter 40 as an invitation to examine turning points and limits.
idea:reversal-is-the-movement-of-the-dao Open note Wu wei is not doing nothing
A reading of wu wei as non-coercive action, with attention to what the phrase does not mean.
idea:wu-wei-is-not-doing-nothing Open note Dao De Jing
The classical text containing the line discussed in this thread.
text:dao-de-jing Reference node 梅花易數 / Meihua Yishu
A classical Meihua text with casting, nuclear-hexagram, and Body/Use conventions referenced by the calculator.
text:meihua-yishu Reference node Meihua Yishu
A hexagram-based symbolic method that attends to a moment, position, and change.
system:meihua Reference node Yijing / Book of Changes
A classical Chinese tradition of change, pattern, and symbolic hexagrams.
system:yijing Reference node Five Phases
A relational vocabulary of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.
concept:five-phases Reference node Body and Use
体用 · A reference/response pair compared through the Five Phases.
term:body-use Open note Changed hexagram
变卦 · The transformed hexagram produced by reversing the moving line.
term:bian-gua Open note Chinese calendar
农历 · A lunisolar calendar with lunar months, leap-month adjustment, solar terms, and sexagenary cycles.
term:chinese-calendar Open note Dao
道 · A classical term for a path, way, order, or way of unfolding; translations are provisional.
term:dao Open note Day Master
日主 · The day stem used as a reference position when relating the other symbolic characters.
term:day-master Open note Earthly Branches
地支 · Twelve repeating calendar labels associated with zodiac animals and traditional time periods.
term:earthly-branches Open note Eight trigrams
八卦 · Eight three-line figures that are combined into hexagrams in Meihua calculation.
term:eight-trigrams Open note Four Pillars
四柱 · Year, month, day, and hour represented as four pairs of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
term:four-pillars Open note Heavenly Stems
天干 · Ten repeating calendar labels paired with Earthly Branches in the sexagenary cycle.
term:heavenly-stems Open note Lichun
立春 · The Beginning of Spring solar term, used by many Four Pillars conventions as the year boundary.
term:lichun Open note Moving line
动爻 · The selected line whose polarity changes and whose trigram determines Body and Use.
term:moving-line Open note Nuclear hexagram
互卦 · A secondary structure derived from the middle four lines of the primary hexagram.
term:hu-gua Open note Primary hexagram
本卦 · The initial six-line structure formed directly from the two cast trigrams.
term:ben-gua Open note Reversal is the movement of the Dao
反者道之动 · A Dao De Jing phrase about turning points, return, and cyclical movement.
term:dao-reversal Open note Solar terms
节气 · Twenty-four astronomical seasonal markers used in calendars and traditional systems.
term:solar-terms Open note Spring Equinox
春分 · The spring solar term when day and night are approximately equal in the Northern Hemisphere.
term:chunfen Open note Wu wei
無為 · A classical term often glossed as non-action and read here as action without coercion.
term:wu-wei Open note Zi hour
子时 · The two-hour period around midnight whose treatment varies between day-boundary conventions.
term:day-boundary Open note Ziran
自然 · A classical term often rendered as self-so or spontaneity, distinct from following every impulse.
term:ziran Open note Zodiac animal
生肖 · An animal associated with the year in the Chinese sexagenary cycle.
term:zodiac-animal Open note Relation ledger
Recorded connections
Every edge shows its type, direction, and note. The ledger is the source of truth for “related” content across the site.
Uses the Five Phases
The calculator compares the two roles through generating, controlling, or same-phase relations.
Phase associations
Trigrams carry traditional Five Phase associations. The relation describes a rule set, not a prediction.
Reading reference
The Day Master is the day stem inside the Four Pillars structure. It is a reference position, not a personality test.
Relational vocabulary
The visible stems and branches carry Five Phase associations. The portrait counts surfaces without treating the result as a strength diagnosis.
Calendar boundaries
Some pillar conventions use exact solar-term instants, especially Lichun for the year pillar.
Year branch symbol
The zodiac animal is associated with the year branch. Its year boundary can differ from a popular Lunar New Year convention.
Interpretive frame
Body and Use provide a relational frame without converting the result into a verdict.
Meihua Yishu → Changed hexagram
Result structure
The changed hexagram shows the transformed line pattern.
Building block
The calculator combines two trigrams into one six-line structure before deriving the nuclear and changed hexagrams.
Result structure
The moving line is selected arithmetically and links the primary and changed structures.
Meihua Yishu → Nuclear hexagram
Result structure
The nuclear hexagram is derived from the middle lines of the primary structure.
Meihua Yishu → Primary hexagram
Result structure
The primary hexagram is the first six-line structure produced by the cast.
Meihua Yishu → Yijing / Book of Changes
Hexagram tradition
Meihua uses trigrams and hexagrams associated with the Yijing tradition, while retaining its own casting and interpretive rules.
Meihua Yishu → 梅花易數 / Meihua Yishu
Method text
The calculator cites volume one for casting rules and volume two for the Body/Use framework.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Dao
Contextual term
The phrase names the movement of the Dao. The article treats the line as a prompt for reflection rather than a predictive law.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Dao De Jing
Primary text
The article discusses a line from chapter 40 of the Dao De Jing.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Dao De Jing
Textual source
The phrase opens chapter 40 of the Dao De Jing; the linguistic gloss belongs to the glossary node.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Five Phases
Related concept
The Five Phases provide a relational vocabulary used across many Chinese traditions. The article does not claim that this line is a Five Phases doctrine.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Meihua Yishu
Thematic comparison
Meihua also asks a reader to inspect position and change, but it has its own rules, history, and vocabulary. The relation is a question shared by the site, not an equivalence.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Reversal is the movement of the Dao
Discussed phrase
The idea thread explains the phrase through turning points and limits, without promising that every reversal is beneficial.
Reversal is the movement of the Dao → Yijing / Book of Changes
Thematic comparison
Both can be read as traditions of reflecting on change. This is an editorial comparison, not a claim that they are the same system or that one directly caused the other.
Seasonal marker
Lichun is one of the twenty-four solar terms and marks the beginning of spring in the solar-term sequence.
Seasonal marker
The Spring Equinox is a solar term, but it is distinct from Lichun in the seasonal sequence.
Classical context
Wu wei is discussed in relation to the Dao in the received Dao De Jing; this is not a claim that one English phrase defines either term.
Related concept
Both terms can be used to discuss non-forced arising, but they are not interchangeable definitions.
Wu wei is not doing nothing → Dao
Contextual term
The passage speaks of the Dao, but the article does not reduce the term to a single metaphysical definition.
Wu wei is not doing nothing → Dao De Jing
Primary text
The thread reads the Dao De Jing chapter 37 passage 道常無為而無不為 and labels its English rendering as editorial.
Wu wei is not doing nothing → Reversal is the movement of the Dao
Thematic comparison
Both threads ask how to respond when forcing reaches a limit. The relation is an editorial comparison, not a claim that the two phrases are equivalent.
Wu wei is not doing nothing → Wu wei
Discussed term
The article distinguishes a literal gloss from the interpretive bridge of non-coercive action.
Wu wei is not doing nothing → Ziran
Related concept
Ziran offers a related vocabulary of self-so arising, without making impulse equivalent to spontaneity.
Day-pillar convention
A birth inside the Zi hour can receive a different day pillar when the selected convention changes.
Year boundary
Many Four Pillars conventions change the year position at Lichun rather than at a fixed calendar date.
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