The original 64 illustrated courses
One course for each hexagram, with classical lines, illustrated scenes and optional narration by your device. These are interactive webpages.
Open the complete 64-hexagram library →A route through what is already here
A few concepts. A clearer way to look.
You can begin with a question or begin with a lesson. This suggested route connects YiPhase’s existing guides and courses, so each visit can lead to another useful idea. Move in order, jump to what interests you, or return whenever you like.
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The main path · I Ching
Understand the pattern and the direction of change.
The I Ching is our foundation: learn how a hexagram describes a situation, how line positions focus an idea, and how a changing pattern gives another perspective. These are suggested topics, not prerequisites or an exam.
Meet the Book of Changes
认识《易经》
Begin with changing situations, yin and yang lines, and the role of the classical text.
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Bring a useful question
提出一个有帮助的问题
Turn a concern into something you can observe, think about and act on.
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From two kinds of line to eight trigrams
阴阳与八卦
See how solid and broken lines form eight patterns and their natural images.
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How the three coins form six lines
三枚铜钱，六爻成卦
Read the 6, 7, 8 and 9 coin totals, then build a hexagram from the bottom upward.
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Read your first hexagram
第一次看懂卦象
Find the pattern, recognise its setting, and connect the imagery to known circumstances.
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Follow a changing line
动爻与之卦
Compare the primary and relating patterns. The same guide now has a new focus: what changes?
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Explore Qian through its six stages
以乾卦认识六爻阶段
Open the existing illustrated Qian course and see how position changes the meaning of an action.
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Choose a fitting next step
把理解带回日常行动
Separate conditions, resources and responsibility; choose one step and a time to review it.
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A complementary branch · Five Phases & Mei Hua
Look at how the parts of a situation affect one another.
Once you are comfortable with lines and trigrams, add Mei Hua Yi Shu. Its body–use and Five Phase relationships help frame support, expenditure and constraint within the present situation. It complements the main I Ching path; you can study it without abandoning that foundation.
Five Phases: support and constraint
五行：支持与制约
Meet Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water through generating and controlling relationships.
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Mei Hua: observe the whole situation
梅花易数：观察当下关系
Add a complementary view of images, numbers and relationships, grounded in the circumstances you know.
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Body and use: which way does the relationship work?
体用生克：关系如何作用
See how body and use trigrams describe support, expenditure and pressure within a situation.
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The same subject · different ways to learn
Keep the collections clear. Follow the topic between them.
Our learning path points to selected material. Each media collection also keeps its own complete catalog, so you can browse freely.
Illustrated video lessons
Standalone narrated MP4 lessons focused on line diagrams, scenes and everyday examples.
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Presenter video lessons with matching teaching material, English narration and Chinese transcripts on request.
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