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Yijing Academy (易经学院) offers 16 courses on the Zhouyi (I Ching) in 4 divisions, 6 core and 10 elective; this page gives each course's positioning, prerequisites, course hours and type in English, while the courses themselves are taught in Chinese.
| Code | Course | Division | Type | Prerequisites | Course hours | Lessons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 义201 | The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies | Meaning and Principle Division (Yili) | Core | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 5 | 4 |
| 义301 | Confucianism and the Yi | Meaning and Principle Division (Yili) | Elective | The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) | 3 | 4 |
| 义302 | Daoism and the Yi | Meaning and Principle Division (Yili) | Elective | The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) | 3 | 4 |
| 义303 | Wang Yangming's School of Mind | Meaning and Principle Division (Yili) | Elective | Confucianism and the Yi (义301) | 3 | 4 |
| 义304 | The Hundred Schools and the Yi | Meaning and Principle Division (Yili) | Elective | The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) | 3 | 4 |
| 用201 | Decision-Making and Application | Application Division (Yingyong) | Core | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 4 | 4 |
| 用202 | Systems Science Seminar | Application Division (Yingyong) | Core | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 2 | 1 |
| 用301 | The Yi and Strategic Thought | Application Division (Yingyong) | Elective | Decision-Making and Application (用201) | 3 | 4 |
| 用302 | The Common Roots of Medicine and the Yi | Application Division (Yingyong) | Elective | Numerology and the Arts of Number (象301) | 3 | 4 |
| 象201 | Casting Methods | Image and Number Division (Xiangshu) | Core | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 4 | 4 |
| 象301 | Numerology and the Arts of Number | Image and Number Division (Xiangshu) | Elective | Casting Methods (象201) | 3 | 4 |
| 象302 | Stems, Branches and the Calendar | Image and Number Division (Xiangshu) | Elective | Casting Methods (象201) | 3 | 4 |
| 通101 | Foundations | General Foundations Division | Core | None | 3 | 5 |
| 通102 | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail | General Foundations Division | Core | Foundations (通101) | 12 | 3 |
| 通201 | Methods of Reading the Classic | General Foundations Division | Elective | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 3 | 4 |
| 通202 | Yizhuan Appendix | General Foundations Division | Elective | The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) | 4 | 4 |
基础入门 · 通101 · Core · General Foundations Division
From the two kinds of line to the 64 hexagrams
Builds the basic symbol system of the Yijing: yin and yang lines, the Three Powers, the images and qualities of the eight trigrams, how the 64 hexagrams are generated, and the structural relations among a hexagram and its nuclear, opposite, inverted and resulting hexagrams.
Prerequisites: None · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 5
Course page (Chinese)六十四卦详解 · 通102 · Core · General Foundations Division
Statements, commentaries, line statements and modern readings
Reads the scripture hexagram by hexagram in the received order, alongside modern-context readings and decision prompts. Hexagrams can be searched by name, keyword, or upper and lower trigram.
Prerequisites: Foundations (通101) · Course hours: 12 · Lessons: 3
Course page (Chinese)经传解读方法 · 通201 · Elective · General Foundations Division
Statement conventions, the commentaries, line-position analysis
Systematically teaches the conventions of hexagram and line statements and their verdict words (yuan heng li zhen; ji, xiong, hui, lin, wu jiu; li 厉; fu 孚), how to read the Tuan, Xiang and Wenyan commentaries, and line-position analysis such as proper position, centrality, bearing, riding, adjacency and correspondence, hexagram ruler and time and place, with a worked example of reading one hexagram through.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)易传附录 · 通202 · Elective · General Foundations Division
Xici, Shuogua, Xugua, Zagua
Collects the full text of the Xici (two parts), Shuogua, Xugua and Zagua commentaries of the received Yizhuan, with chapter-by-chapter guidance. The Wenyan appears with the pinyin reading editions of Qian and Kun, and the Tuan and Xiang commentaries on each hexagram page, so together they make a complete Ten Wings appendix for study and reference.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 4 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)易传与易学史 · 义201 · Core · Meaning and Principle Division (Yili)
Ten Wings, Xici, image-and-number and meaning-and-principle
Explains how the Yizhuan turned a divination text into a philosophical system, traces the line of Yi studies from the pre-Qin period to the Song and Ming, and compares the methods of the image-and-number and meaning-and-principle schools.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 5 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)儒家与易 · 义301 · Elective · Meaning and Principle Division (Yili)
Confucius, the Zhongyong, Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism
Follows how Confucian thinkers read the Yi as a text for moral cultivation, from Confucius's late study of the Yi and the Zhongyong's doctrine of the mean to the cosmology and self-cultivation of Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai and the Cheng-Zhu school.
Prerequisites: The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)道家与易 · 义302 · Elective · Meaning and Principle Division (Yili)
Laozi's Daodejing and Zhuangzi
The Yi and the Laozi-Zhuangzi tradition both discuss yin-yang and change but differ in emphasis. The course compares the two, from the Yi's view of the Way to the Daoist ideas of reversal, softness, knowing when to stop and non-forcing action, then to Zhuangzi's equalising of things.
Prerequisites: The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)王阳明心学 · 义303 · Elective · Meaning and Principle Division (Yili)
Mind as principle, unity of knowing and acting, extending innate knowing
Outlines the main ideas of Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind, formed after his enlightenment at Longchang, and its points of contact with the Yi's themes of adaptation and timely centrality.
Prerequisites: Confucianism and the Yi (义301) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)诸子百家与易 · 义304 · Elective · Meaning and Principle Division (Yili)
Legalism, Mohism, the Yin-Yang school, Xuanxue
Examines how Legalist adaptation of law to the times, Mohist criteria and rejection of fate, the Yin-Yang school's cycle of the five powers (wude zhongshi), and Wei-Jin Xuanxue relate to the Yi, and how near or far each stands, without forcing connections.
Prerequisites: The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)占筮方法 · 象201 · Core · Image and Number Division (Xiangshu)
Dayan yarrow method, coin method, Plum Blossom Numerology
Teaches the procedure and the arithmetic behind traditional casting methods, and the order for reading a primary hexagram, changing lines and resulting hexagram. Casting is treated as a thinking exercise, not as fatalism. For learning only.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 4 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)象数术数 · 象301 · Elective · Image and Number Division (Xiangshu)
Yin-yang and five phases, Plum Blossom Numerology, kanyu (feng shui)
Looks at the numerological traditions often confused with the Yi from the standpoint of intellectual and cultural history: the origins of the five-phase system, the structure of Plum Blossom Numerology, the theoretical framework of kanyu (feng shui, often called geomancy), and the rational limits of numerology. For learning only.
Prerequisites: Casting Methods (象201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)天干地支与历法 · 象302 · Elective · Image and Number Division (Xiangshu)
Sexagenary cycle, solar terms and hexagram-qi, najia
Explains the heavenly stems and earthly branches as calendar tools (origin, structure, arithmetic), then their assignments to yin-yang, the five phases and the trigrams: the sixty-term cycle for years and days, the twenty-four solar terms and hexagram-qi, the twelve waxing-and-waning hexagrams, and Jing Fang's najia. Calendar and cultural history only; it does not compute personal destiny.
Prerequisites: Casting Methods (象201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)决策与应用 · 用201 · Core · Application Division (Yingyong)
Using Yi thinking in management and daily life
Turns core ideas of Yi thinking, such as time and place, adaptation, centrality and proper position, and watchfulness in adversity (youhuan), into practical decision frameworks, with case discussions.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 4 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)系统科学讲堂 · 用202 · Core · Application Division (Yingyong)
Holistic perception, multi-dimensional inference and practice
Rereads the eight trigrams from the viewpoint of systems science and adaptive decision-making: eight primitives, a hexagram tree, a six-line compass, dynamics case studies and an end-of-course quiz.
Prerequisites: The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102) · Course hours: 2 · Lessons: 1
Course page (Chinese)易与兵家 · 用301 · Elective · Application Division (Yingyong)
The Shi (Army) hexagram, Sunzi's Art of War, the unorthodox and orthodox
Starting from the Shi (师, "the Army") hexagram and military references in the Zhouyi line statements, explains how the Art of War's ideas of unorthodox and orthodox, empty and full, momentum and timing connect with the Yi's yin-yang change, with a glance at the Liutao and Sanlue, translating these into strategic and game-theoretic thinking. It does not concern any real-world military action.
Prerequisites: Decision-Making and Application (用201) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)医易同源 · 用302 · Elective · Application Division (Yingyong)
Yin-yang and five phases, visceral systems, the Huangdi Neijing
Surveys how the basic theory of Chinese medicine (yin-yang, five phases, visceral systems) relates to Yi studies, the Yi background of the Huangdi Neijing, Zhang Jiebin's discussion of medicine and the Yi, and the Yi-based view of health as following the seasons, moderation and balance. It belongs to intellectual and cultural history and is not medical advice.
Prerequisites: Numerology and the Arts of Number (象301) · Course hours: 3 · Lessons: 4
Course page (Chinese)Yijing Academy (易经学院) lists 16 courses on the Zhouyi (I Ching) in 4 divisions: 6 core and 10 elective. The courses are taught in Simplified Chinese.
Core courses: Foundations (通101); The 64 Hexagrams in Detail (通102); Casting Methods (象201); The Yizhuan and the History of Yi Studies (义201); Decision-Making and Application (用201); Systems Science Seminar (用202). All other courses are elective.
In the course catalogue of Yijing Academy, Foundations (通101) is the only course with no prerequisite; every other course lists at least one prerequisite.
No. Courses on casting methods, numerology and the calendar treat them as method and cultural history for learning only. The medicine course is history of ideas, not medical advice, and the strategy course is a way of thinking, not about real-world military action.