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What Is Chinese Metaphysics?
A practical map of the traditions grouped under Chinese metaphysics, and how to study them without flattening their differences.
6 min readAN EDITORIAL LEARNING PROJECTEST. IN THE CLASSICS
Read the systems
behind the signs.
A clear, source-led guide to Chinese metaphysical traditions: what their symbols mean, how their methods work, and where history ends and evidence begins.
Culture · Texts · Methods · Critical reading
TIME & CALENDAR
SYMBOLS
PRACTICE
PHILOSOPHY
易CHANGE
Chinese metaphysics is a modern umbrella label. Its traditions are related, but they are not one method, one history, or one claim.
See the map →A PLACE TO BEGIN
Three useful first steps
Foundations
The Five Elements in Chinese Thought
What wuxing means, why Five Elements is the common English label, and when Five Phases is more precise.
6 min readMethods
What Is BaZi? The Four Pillars of Destiny
How a birth moment is represented by four stem-branch pairs, and what a chart can and cannot establish.
7 min read14MODULES
A STRUCTURED COURSE
From basic ideas to specialized methods
Follow a 112-lesson map through yin-yang, calendars, the Yijing, divination, BaZi, feng shui, and modern perspectives. Lessons are being adapted into English in reviewed batches.
FIND YOUR QUESTION
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Study the internal rules carefully. Then ask what the sources show, what the method claims, and what evidence could test it.
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