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Daokeyi is a multilingual knowledge base dedicated to the Five Arts of Chinese metaphysics — Shan, Yi, Ming, Xiang, Bu.

We organize the knowledge scattered across classical texts and oral tradition into a structured, browsable system, and translate it into multiple languages so readers of every background can explore the origins and logic of these traditional Chinese arts.

  • Mountain (山) — self-cultivation, longevity practice, inner alchemy and meditation
  • Medicine (医) — herbal formulas, acupuncture and traditional healing
  • Fate (命) — Bazi and Zi Wei Dou Shu destiny analysis
  • Physiognomy (相) — face and palm reading, Feng Shui
  • Divination (卜) — Liu Yao, Qi Men Dun Jia and other methods

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Bazi Symbolic Stars: Peach Blossom, Travelling Horse, Canopy and Nobleman

·2156 words·5 mins
Destiny Bazi Shen Sha
Every Bazi calculator prints a row of extra names under the four pillars — Peach Blossom, Travelling Horse, Canopy, Nobleman, Goat Blade — and they are the part of a chart people remember first. They are also the part beginners overrate most: one Peach Blossom and the reading turns to romance; one Travelling Horse and it turns to emigration. This page covers what these symbolic stars (神煞, shen sha) actually are, how to look up the four you will meet most often, and where they belong in the order of reading a chart — which is after the Ten Gods, not before.

Plum Blossom Numerology (Mei Hua Yi Shu): Casting a Hexagram from Numbers and Time

·2201 words·5 mins
Divination Plum Blossom I Ching Divination
Plum Blossom Numerology (梅花易数, Mei Hua Yi Shu) is the I Ching cast with nothing in your hands. No coins, no yarrow stalks: the hexagram is built from numbers — a number someone says, the strokes of a written word, or most often the date and hour of the moment you ask. Three small divisions turn those numbers into a hexagram and a moving line, and the reading is then done by splitting the hexagram into two halves, the body and the use, and asking which feeds or attacks the other. This page gives the arithmetic step by step, works one cast from start to finish, and sets the method beside the coin cast and liu yao, the two other ways this site reads the same sixty-four hexagrams.

Qimen Dunjia Eight Gates and Nine Palaces: What Each One Means

·1469 words·3 mins
Divination Qimen Dunjia Eight Gates
Every Qimen Dunjia chart is drawn on the same frame: nine palaces arranged in a three-by-three square, and eight gates that travel around them hour by hour. The stars, stems and deities stacked on top all depend on that frame, so it is the first thing to learn — and the first thing English-language material tends to blur, because the gates go by half a dozen different translations. This article lays out the nine palaces and their numbers, gives a full table of the eight gates with every common English name, and explains the two relationships a reader checks first: which palace a gate lands in, and whether gate and palace support or fight each other. For the system as a whole, start with What Is Qi Men Dun Jia?.

Da Liu Ren: How the Six Ren Oracle Turns the Moment You Ask into a Reading

·1817 words·4 mins
Divination Da Liu Ren Divination
Da Liu Ren (大六壬, “the Great Six Ren”) is a Chinese oracle that answers a question from the exact moment it is asked. Nothing is thrown or drawn: the date and hour themselves are converted into a chart of two rotating plates, and the reading comes from where the twelve earthly branches land on each other. Together with Qi Men Dun Jia and Tai Yi, it is one of the San Shi (三式), the “three cosmic boards” of classical Chinese divination — and of the three it is the one most concerned with the human affairs behind a question: a lawsuit, a journey, a lost object, a match. This article explains what the system is, how a chart is built step by step, and how to read the first layer of one. If you only want a chart, the free Da Liu Ren calculator builds one for any moment.

Chinese Face Reading: The Three Zones, the Five Features, and How the Tradition Reads a Face

·1374 words·3 mins
Physiognomy & Feng Shui Face Reading Chinese Physiognomy Mian Xiang
Chinese face reading — mian xiang (面相), literally “face appearance” — is the art of reading a person’s temperament and the shape of their life from the proportions and features of the face. It belongs to xiang (相), the branch of the Chinese Five Arts that reads meaning from visible form: feng shui reads the form of land and buildings, face reading reads the form of a person. Its working vocabulary is small and easy to learn: the face is cut horizontally into three zones, and five features are treated as five “officials” with distinct jobs. This article lays out that map, what each part is traditionally said to show, and why even classical Chinese thinkers argued about how much weight a face should carry.

Zi Wei Dou Shu: How Purple Star Astrology Builds a Chart of Twelve Palaces

·1869 words·4 mins
Destiny Zi Wei Dou Shu Purple Star Astrology Chinese Astrology
Zi Wei Dou Shu (紫微斗数), usually translated Purple Star Astrology, is the second great system of Chinese destiny reading, next to Bazi. It uses the same raw material — the date and hour of birth — but does something very different with it. Bazi turns the birth moment into eight characters and studies how they interact. Zi Wei Dou Shu draws a board of twelve palaces, one for each area of life, and drops more than a hundred named stars into those palaces. Reading the chart means asking which stars landed in which palace. If you have ever looked at a Western birth chart with its twelve houses, the board will look familiar; the way it is filled is not.