Case 23 of 26
Luck direction and nearby Jie
Yin year plus male: reverse Luck Pillars
The direction matrix is repeated with a Yin year stem.
Boundary question
Which direction does a male chart with a Yin year stem use?
The Xin (辛) Yin year stem plus male input produces reverse sequence and selects the preceding Liqiu.
Synthetic input
Recorded facts
- Date
- 1991-08-20
- Recorded time
- 12:00
- Location
- 120°E reference meridian
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Longitude
- 120.0000°
- Gender input
- Male
Pinned expected facts
Verified output
Year
辛未
Month
丙申
Day
壬戌
Hour
乙巳
- Day Master
- 壬
- True solar time
- 1991-08-20 10:56
- Total correction
- -63.81 minutes
- Historical offset
- UTC+09:00 · DST 60 min
- Luck direction
- 逆排
- Reference Jie
- 立秋 · 1991-08-08 08:37:15
- Luck start
- 1995-09-01 00:48:11
Conventions and limits
What this case does — and does not — prove
It verifies
Deterministic reproduction of this input under the named engine version and conventions. A pinned-field mismatch stops the production build.
It does not claim
Universal agreement across Bazi schools, interpretation of a real person, or certainty where the historical record is incomplete.
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