Yuanhai Ziping
Readings contents
Twenty existing essays in three collections.
Results: 20
Collection One: chart relations and reading methods
- How to read Yuanhai Ziping: an edition, a map, and a methodReading 1
Identify the text and commentary you are reading, then follow a practical route through Yuanhai Ziping without turning its formulas into isolated predictions.
- Reading from the day stem: how to organize the whole chartReading 2
Build a relational chart map from the day stem, separate visible and hidden stems, and avoid mistaking Ten God names for fixed personality traits.
- Why the month is the framework: season, hidden stems, and strengthReading 3
Read the month command as seasonal context, distinguish hidden stems from visible emergence, and make strength judgments without simply counting elements.
- Generation, control and transformation: when a relation mattersReading 4
Read generation, control, restraint and combination as conditional relations, with worked comparisons that show why an arrow alone cannot decide a Yuanhai reading.
- Direct Officer and Seven Killings: how much restraint is enoughReading 5
Compare the book's overlapping Officer and Killings terminology, then test insufficient, suitable and excessive restraint without turning historical labels into moral judgments.
- Wealth, Resource and Output: one change affects several relationsReading 6
Follow the book's concrete Resource–Output example, then compare how adding Wealth can restrain Resource, receive Output and support Officer at the same time.
- When a Pattern Is EstablishedReading 7
Test a Yuanhai Ziping pattern against its own required conditions, supporting relations, and counterexamples before accepting a label
- Natal Chart Decade and YearReading 8
Keep the natal configuration, ten year cycle, and annual pillar distinct while reading the conditional timing language of Yuanhai Ziping
- Auxiliary Stars in the Whole ChartReading 9
Read an image checked auxiliary star rule, record its reference and target, and keep a lookup result separate from a claim about someone’s life
- A complete fictional reading: from checked input to conditional conclusionsReading 10
Follow one reproducible fictional chart through calculation, relational inventory, season, competing readings, decade and annual layers, with a clear record of what remains undecided.
Collection Two: close reading of verses and conditions
- How conditions work together in a Jishan pian paragraphReading 1
Read priorities, degree words, reversals and a concluding connective together in the 1634 Jishan pian, without turning a general preference into an unconditional rule.
- Why the sayings in Xiji pian need to be read togetherReading 2
Follow a change from weighing mixed relations to a conditional Seven Killings example, then notice when the next saying starts a different inquiry.
- What the eight methods of Shenqu actually classifyReading 3
Compare the reference, branch arrangement and conditions behind each of the eight names in the 1634 Shenqu passage, without treating a reading table as a unified calculator specification.
- What the images in Wuxing yuanli xiaoxi fu can and cannot establishReading 4
Separate floating Wood and buried Metal imagery from branch positions, traditional judgments and modern evidence, without translating every life-and-death term into a health prediction.
- Is Baofa a single route from first step to verdictReading 5
Compare the opening order, six-category checks and relational chains in the two Baofa passages, keeping a modern checklist distinct from a claimed original algorithm.
- How to distinguish a poem from its explanationsReading 6
Use the 1634 witness's Xinjing ge opening to identify headings, type size and upper-register text, keeping original wording, old notes, translation and modern evaluation distinct.
Collection Three: editions and comparisons across texts
- How to judge the main text and its old note separatelyReading 1
Compare the Jishan pian in the 1634 Shanchengtang and 1926 Qin Shen'an witnesses, separating the large-text requirements, the monthly conditions in small type and our interpretation.
- How a different character can change a lookup mappingReading 2
Compare local glyphs in the Tianyi Noble Person verse with a 1926 witness, separating transcription, display normalization, witness readings and proposed emendations from the resulting lookup.
- How Yuanhai and Sanming tonghui include the same poemReading 3
Align a continuous Xiji pian passage, its actual headings and annotation layers in two witnesses, retaining each collection's context even where the wording corresponds.
- Can yongshen in Yuanhai and Ziping zhenquan be exchanged directly?Reading 4
Compare Jishan pian's protection requirement with the monthly definition and assisting factors in Ziping zhenquan, preserving each passage's role rather than reducing all uses to a lucky element.