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Zheng Qinwen’s BaZi chart 郑钦文

Tennis player · Olympic champion 2024 · born 8 October 2002, Shiyan, Hubei, China · date source: Wikipedia

Western zodiac sign: Libra.

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.

A new solar month begins on this date — Cold Dew (Han Lu, 寒露), at 19:09 UTC+8 — so the month pillar depends on the hour: Earth Rooster (Ji You, 己酉) in the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster hours; Metal Dog (Geng Xu, 庚戌) in the Dog, Pig hours. The table below casts each hour with its own.

A woman holding a seedling in a terraced garden

In short

Zheng Qinwen’s day master is Yin Earth: the Garden.

Patient and big-hearted: the ground other things grow from. The day master comes from the day of birth alone; about one person in ten shares it.

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Quick answers

What is Zheng Qinwen’s day master?
Yin Earth, the Garden: born on a Earth Rooster day (Ji You, 己酉).
What is Zheng Qinwen’s zodiac sign?
The Horse: born in a Water Horse year (Ren Wu, 壬午), counted from the Start of Spring.
What is Zheng Qinwen’s bone weight?
4.0 liang to 5.0 liang, depending on the hour, which is not public. How it is worked out ›
Is Zheng Qinwen’s birth time known?
No published time, so the hour pillar is cast all twelve ways below.

Compare your chart with Zheng Qinwen’s

Birth dates only: day masters, day pillars and signs.

The three pillars the date fixes

Year

Direct Wealth

壬 Yang Water

午 Horse

Month

Friend

己 Yin Earth

酉 Rooster

Earth Rooster (己酉) in the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster hours Metal Dog (庚戌) in the Dog, Pig hours

Day

Day Master

己 Yin Earth

酉 Rooster

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 Horse hides Yin Fire (丁, Indirect Resource), Yin Earth (己, Friend); the Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Eating God); the Rooster hides Yin Metal (辛, Eating God).

Direct Wealth (Zheng Cai, 正财)
What you control, opposite polarity. Wealth held steadily — earned, kept, accounted for.
Indirect Resource (Pian Yin, 偏印)
What produces you, same polarity. Support of an indirect kind — the tradition treats it as nourishment that can also crowd out the Eating God (食神).
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.
Eating God (Shi Shen, 食神)
What you produce, same polarity. Output that comes easily: making, feeding, expressing, without strain.

Day master

己 The Garden Yin Earth (Ji)
What the classic Di Tian Sui (滴天髓) says of this stem, word for word

Yin Earth (己) is low and damp, centred, upright, storing and hiding. It does not fret at Wood in plenty nor fear Water gone wild. With little Fire the Fire is dimmed; with much Metal the Metal shines. If things are to flourish, it should be helped and supported.

己土卑湿,中正蓄藏,不愁木盛,不畏水狂,火少火晦,金多金光,若要物旺,宜助宜帮。

Born in a Rooster month (You, 酉), when Metal rules the season. In that season Yin Earth is at rest (Xiu, 休): it produced the season and its work is done. (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: Earth Rooster (Ji You, 己酉)

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 Earth of the Highway (大驿土), and it says:

Grain standing in autumn; likes the Monkey and Rooster, and winter.

The original Chinese

秋间禾稼,喜申酉及冬

This is what the book says of every Ji You day, not of Zheng Qinwen. The Ji You 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

木 Wood × 0 火 Fire × 1 土 Earth × 2 金 Metal × 2 水 Water × 1

None of the six is Wood. 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

Of the twelve hours, 4 read strong and 8 weak (strong: the Dragon, Snake, Dog, Pig hours). Strength, and the useful element that follows from it, depend on the hour — the date alone cannot settle them.

Hour Solar time Hour pillar Its ten god Three tests Strength Favoured
Rat (子) 00–01 甲子Wood Rat Direct Officer (正官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Ox (丑) 01–03 乙丑Wood Ox Seven Killings (七杀) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Tiger (寅) 03–05 丙寅Fire Tiger Direct Resource (正印) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Rabbit (卯) 05–07 丁卯Fire Rabbit Indirect Resource (偏印) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Dragon (辰) 07–09 戊辰Earth Dragon Rob Wealth (劫财) out of season rooted backed strong Metal, Water, Wood
Snake (巳) 09–11 己巳Earth Snake Friend (比肩) out of season rooted backed strong Metal, Water, Wood
Horse (午) 11–13 庚午Metal Horse Hurting Officer (伤官) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Goat (未) 13–15 辛未Metal Goat Eating God (食神) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Monkey (申) 15–17 壬申Water Monkey Direct Wealth (正财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Rooster (酉) 17–19 癸酉Water Rooster Indirect Wealth (偏财) out of season rooted outnumbered weak Fire, Earth
Dog (戌) 19–21 甲戌Wood Dog Direct Officer (正官) in season rooted outnumbered strong Metal, Water, Wood
Pig (亥) 21–23 乙亥Wood Pig Seven Killings (七杀) in season rooted outnumbered strong Metal, 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.

Zheng Qinwen’s bone weight (Cheng Gu, 称骨)

Lunar date: day 3 of the 9th month, Water Horse year (壬午年九月初三). Its weights: year 0.8 liang, month 1.8 liang, day 0.8 liang — 3.4 liang before the hour. Over the twelve hours that makes 4.0 liang to 5.0 liang.

Rat (子) 5.0 liang Ox (丑) 4.0 liang Tiger (寅) 4.1 liang Rabbit (卯) 4.4 liang Dragon (辰) 4.3 liang Snake (巳) 5.0 liang Horse (午) 4.4 liang Goat (未) 4.2 liang Monkey (申) 4.2 liang Rooster (酉) 4.3 liang Dog (戌) 4.0 liang Pig (亥) 4.0 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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