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A Study on the Yu Yan's Yi Wai Bie Zhuan Lee, Chang-Il Yi Wai Bie Zhuan is the work written by Yu Yan(1258?-1314), who was the Neo-Confucian and the theorist of Tanism(丹家), i.e. a branch of religious Taoism, in late southern Song and early Yuan dynasty. Yi Wai Bie Zhuan consists of three main intellectual resources. First is Changes philosophy, which is the natural philosophy that integrates the structure of cosmos with the ways and value of living in human. Second is the Shao Kangjie's Xian Tian Changes philosophy. This is the new Changes philosophy, which has the intellectual tradition of taoism and coordinates Confucian thinking with Taoist thinking. Yu Yan reflects the systems and contents of this Xian Tian Changes philosophy. Third is East Asian proto-scientific systems associated with arts of nutritional sciences, including respiratory techniques, gymnastic techniques, alchemical and pharmaceutical techniques, and so forth. The main point of this article is a preliminary approach to explore how these each different intellectual resources are combined with together. To achieve this, the contents and constructions of Yi Wai Bie Zhuan are philosophically analyzed and thematically classified. Consequently, It may be thought that Yu Yan's Yi Wai Bie Zhuan is the philosophical justification of Tanism, with mainly applying the Xian Tian Changes philosophy to build the philosophical principles of Tanism.