Yen Chia-kan’s BaZi chart 严家淦
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 1975–1978 · born 23 October 1905, Mudu, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China · date source: Wikipedia
Western zodiac sign: Libra or Scorpio — the Sun entered Scorpio at 02:07 UTC on 24 October 1905, so it turns on the birth time and place.
No birth time has been published. The date fixes three of the four pillars; the fourth is one of twelve. Below, everything the date settles is computed, and everything that turns on the hour is cast all twelve ways — without picking one on anyone’s behalf.
In short
Yen Chia-kan’s day master is Yin Wood: the Vine.
Gentle and kind, and puts roots down deep once it finds its place. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.
Quick answers
- What is Yen Chia-kan’s day master?
- Yin Wood, the Vine: born on a Wood Goat day (Yi Wei, 乙未).
- What is Yen Chia-kan’s zodiac sign?
- The Snake: born in a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳), counted from the Start of Spring.
- What is Yen Chia-kan’s bone weight?
- 4.6 liang to 5.6 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
- Is Yen Chia-kan’s birth time known?
- No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.
Compare your chart with Yen Chia-kan’s
Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.
The three pillars the date fixes
Year
Friend
乙 Yin Wood
巳 Snake
Month
Hurting Officer
丙 Yang Fire
戌 Dog
Day
Day Master
乙 Yin Wood
未 Goat
Hour
?
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one of twelve — see below
What the labels mean
Each pillar is two characters: a stem on top (an element, yin or yang) and a branch below (one of the twelve zodiac animals). The day stem is the day master — the person. The label above each other stem is its ten god (Shi Shen, 十神): what that element is to the day master.
Each animal also hides stems of its own, strongest first: the Snake hides Yang Fire (丙, Hurting Officer), Yang Metal (庚, Direct Officer), Yang Earth (戊, Direct Wealth); the Dog hides Yang Earth (戊, Direct Wealth), Yin Metal (辛, Seven Killings), Yin Fire (丁, Eating God); the Goat hides Yin Earth (己, Indirect Wealth), Yin Fire (丁, Eating God), Yin Wood (乙, Friend).
- Friend (Bi Jian, 比肩)
- Same element, same polarity as you. A peer: someone standing where you stand, competing for the same thing and equally able to share the load.
- Hurting Officer (Shang Guan, 伤官)
- What you produce, opposite polarity. Output with an edge on it. The name means it injures the Direct Officer (正官), which is why the tradition reads it as talent that does not sit well with authority.
- Direct Officer (Zheng Guan, 正官)
- What controls you, opposite polarity. Authority in its orderly form: office, rule, the structure you fit into.
- Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
- What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.
- Seven Killings (Qi Sha, 七杀)
- What controls you, same polarity. Pressure with nothing softening it: demand, risk, and whatever you answer to whether you chose it or not.
- Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
- What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.
- Indirect Wealth (Pian Cai, 偏财)
- What you control, same polarity. Wealth that comes sideways rather than by salary — the uneven kind.
Day master
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word
Yin Wood (乙) though soft cuts the sheep and dismembers the ox. Holding Yin Fire (丁) and embracing Yang Fire (丙), it bestrides the phoenix and mounts the monkey. On empty wet ground, riding the horse is a worry still; but vine tied to Yang Wood (甲), it can take spring or autumn.
乙木虽柔，刲羊解牛，怀丁抱丙，跨凤乘猴，虚湿之地，骑马亦忧，藤罗系甲，可春可秋。
Born in a Dog month (Xu, 戌), when Earth rules the season. In that season Yin Wood is imprisoned (Qiu, 囚): held down by what the season produces. (One of five seasonal states, Wang Xiang Xiu Qiu Si, 旺相休囚死, after the San Ming Tong Hui, 三命通會, book 2.)
Day pillar: Wood Goat (Yi Wei, 乙未)
The classic San Ming Tong Hui (三命通会) gives each of the sixty day pillars an image, its sound element (Na Yin, 纳音). For this one it is Gold in the Sand (沙中金), and it says:
Metal left among the furnace coals; likes great Fire, and Earth.
The original Chinese
炉炭余金，喜大火及土
This is what the book says of every Yi Wei day, not of Yen Chia-kan. The Yi Wei day pillar › (what the classic says at each birth hour, what the branch holds, and others born on one)
Elements in the six known characters
None of the six is Metal, Water. The hour pillar’s two characters may supply it or may not — that depends on the hour. Hidden stems are not counted here.
All twelve hours, cast one by one
In all twelve hours the Yin Wood day master reads weak. Whatever the hour, the support-and-restrain method favours Water, Wood — the date alone settles it.
| Hour | Solar time | Hour pillar | Its ten god | Three tests | Strength | Favoured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00–01 | 丙子Fire Rat | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Ox (丑) | 01–03 | 丁丑Fire Ox | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Tiger (寅) | 03–05 | 戊寅Earth Tiger | Direct Wealth (正财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05–07 | 己卯Earth Rabbit | Indirect Wealth (偏财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Dragon (辰) | 07–09 | 庚辰Metal Dragon | Direct Officer (正官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Snake (巳) | 09–11 | 辛巳Metal Snake | Seven Killings (七杀) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Horse (午) | 11–13 | 壬午Water Horse | Direct Resource (正印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Goat (未) | 13–15 | 癸未Water Goat | Indirect Resource (偏印) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Monkey (申) | 15–17 | 甲申Wood Monkey | Rob Wealth (劫财) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Rooster (酉) | 17–19 | 乙酉Wood Rooster | Friend (比肩) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Dog (戌) | 19–21 | 丙戌Fire Dog | Hurting Officer (伤官) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
| Pig (亥) | 21–23 | 丁亥Fire Pig | Eating God (食神) | out of season rooted outnumbered | weak | Water, Wood |
Each row is exactly what the full calculator would say for a birth in that hour. Strength comes from three tests: in season (De Ling, 得令) — born in the season of the day master’s own element; rooted (De Di, 得地) — the same element hidden in a branch; backed (De Shi, 得势) — as much support around it as drain. Two of three reads strong. The favoured elements come from support and restrain (Fu Yi, 扶抑): a strong day master wants draining, a weak one wants support. There are three other methods for the useful element — climate (Tiao Hou, 调候), bridging (Tong Guan, 通關) and disease and cure (Bing Yao, 病藥) — each from its own text; see the useful god page. Hours are solar time at the birthplace, so a clock time needs correcting first; and a birth after 23:00 falls in the late Rat hour, where the two schools disagree about whether the day has turned.
Yen Chia-kan’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)
Lunar date: day 25 of the 9th month, Wood Snake year (乙巳年九月廿五). Its weights: year 0.7 liang, month 1.8 liang, day 1.5 liang — 4.0 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.6 liang to 5.6 liang.
Bone weighing is a folk almanac sum over the calendar positions of the year, month, day and hour — not the elements, and not the chart above. How heavy is heavy? The tables and the spread ›
And yours?
You have your own birth time, so your chart needs no table of twelve — all four pillars, corrected to true solar time with the timezone actually in force where and when you were born.
About this page
This page computes; it does not interpret. The birth date is public and its source is linked; the birth time is not, so the hour pillar and everything that depends on it are set out all twelve ways.
Nothing here claims that anyone is who they are because of a chart, and nothing here forecasts years, health or lifespan for anyone living.
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