Qimen vs Liuyao: Palace Layers or Six-Line Hexagram?
Qimen distributes stems, gates, stars, and deities across nine palaces. Liuyao organizes a six-line hexagram with line states and relationship roles.
Overview
Qimen distributes stems, gates, stars, and deities across nine palaces. Liuyao organizes a six-line hexagram with line states and relationship roles. Both may address a focused question, but their calculation objects are not interchangeable. Choose based on the representation you intend to audit: a spatial multi-layer board or a six-line hexagram. Preserve the original cast rule and do not backfill one system with symbols from the other.
At a glance
- Page role
- System-boundary comparison
- Terms covered
- Qi Men vs six lines · Qimen or Wen Wang Gua
- Verification focus
- Choose based on the representation you intend to audit: a spatial multi-layer board or a six-line hexagram. Preserve the original cast rule and do not backfill one system with symbols from the other.
- Stop rule
- This is a scope comparison, not a full Liuyao manual or accuracy ranking. Use a separately sourced Liuyao guide for its detailed rules.
Direct answer and scope
Qimen distributes stems, gates, stars, and deities across nine palaces. Liuyao organizes a six-line hexagram with line states and relationship roles. Both may address a focused question, but their calculation objects are not interchangeable.
- Names and related terms: Qi Men vs six lines
- Names and related terms: Qimen or Wen Wang Gua
How the rule is formed or checked
Choose based on the representation you intend to audit: a spatial multi-layer board or a six-line hexagram. Preserve the original cast rule and do not backfill one system with symbols from the other.
Keep the cast moment, UTC offset, method version, palace, and interacting symbols visible before adopting an interpretation.
How to use this in a reading
If both are consulted, compare only operational outputs such as shared bottlenecks or next checks. Agreement is corroboration between interpretations, not independent empirical proof.
- Name the visible chart fact before assigning symbolic meaning.
- Compare the asker and matter anchors with every layer in their palaces.
- Record at least one supporting condition and one counter-signal.
- End with a reversible action and an observable review point.
Worked contrast
A Qimen palace relation and a Liuyao line relation may use similar elemental vocabulary while referring to different structures. Shared words do not make the formulas equivalent.
Common mistake and limit
This is a scope comparison, not a full Liuyao manual or accuracy ranking. Use a separately sourced Liuyao guide for its detailed rules.
Sources and editorial basis
- 猪野毅「奇門遁甲の基礎的研究」Abstract and pp. 161–185: history and vocabulary; nine palaces; Three Wonders and Six Instruments; Eight Gates, Nine Stars, and deities; 排宮 and 飛宮 method distinction.A 2010 Hokkaido University research article used for historical vocabulary, the basic board structure, and the documented distinction between rotating-palace and flying-palace approaches. It does not test predictive accuracy.
- NCC-T06 奇門遁甲專業版操作手冊NCC-T06 manual setting and board-field sections: configurable plate, center, bureau, deity, and day-boundary axes; used as evidence of modern method variation only.A modern professional-software manual used to document that plate, center, bureau, deity, and day-boundary settings vary. It is evidence of configurable practice, not an independent historical authority or accuracy study.
- OpenFate Qimen hour-chart methodOpenFate docs/QIMEN_SYSTEM.md, “Professional calculation contract,” “Interpretation and evidence contract,” and “Rule-source map,” source-reviewed 2026-09-12.Product-specific reference for OpenFate’s fixed-offset civil-time, hour-Qimen, rotating-plate, Chaibu implementation and its deterministic chart fields. A source review on 2026-09-12 does not prove live deployment, other schools, or predictive validity.