San Ming Tong Hui: Scope, Method, and Citation
Understand San Ming Tong Hui as a broad Ming-period synthesis, locate its different rule families, and cite the relevant juan instead of treating the work as one formula.
Overview
San Ming Tong Hui (三命通會, Sān Mìng Tōng Huì) is a large Ming-period compendium associated with Wan Minying. It preserves and organizes material on calendrical foundations, stems and branches, Ten Gods, structures, Nayin, fate stars, family roles, timing, verses, and earlier authorities. Its breadth is the reason it must be cited precisely: a rule from one juan may use a different framework from a passage elsewhere. The work is especially useful for tracing how multiple lineages were assembled and compared, not for pretending that every included rule forms one perfectly unified system. A responsible reading names the volume, passage, edition, rule family, and conditions, while separating historical description from OpenFate’s current calculation and editorial policy.
At a glance
- Period
- Ming-period compendium
- Association
- Traditionally associated with Wan Minying
- Coverage
- Calendar, Nayin, Ziping, structures, stars, timing
- Text form
- Multi-volume synthesis of several rule families
- Citation unit
- Edition, juan, heading, and passage
- Cannot imply
- One unified method or verified prediction
Recognize an encyclopedic compilation
The work gathers technical tables, historical explanations, verses, quoted authorities, classifications, and examples across multiple volumes. Its internal diversity is evidence of transmission, not an error to erase.
Identify whether a statement is the compiler’s framing, a quoted earlier source, a verse, a commentary, or an example. These voices have different evidentiary weight.
- Name the juan and passage type.
- Keep quoted authorities distinct from compiler commentary.
Keep its rule families separate
Nayin, year-based Lu Ming, Day-Master Ten Gods, structures, fate stars, stem-branch relations, and timing may appear in the same work without sharing one decision hierarchy.
Before applying a rule, state its reference point, required inputs, formation conditions, period, and whether later Ziping practice adopted, modified, or rejected it.
- Do not blend Nayin and Day-Master logic silently.
- Declare the rule family before interpretation.
Use volume-level citations and textual comparison
Cite an accessible scan or transcription with edition, volume, heading, and a short locator. If punctuation or characters differ, preserve the source wording and record the editorial normalization.
Compare repeated rules across volumes and other classics before claiming a stable consensus. Similar wording may carry different examples, limits, or attribution.
- Make every quotation retrievable.
- Report variants that could change the rule.
Do not convert breadth into certainty
A large compendium can document many traditions but cannot make every included claim mutually consistent or empirically proven. Frequency of inclusion is not a reliability score.
Use current deterministic code for chart calculation and direct evidence for health, law, finance, safety, and personal decisions. Present historical rules as bounded interpretive sources.
- Encyclopedic coverage is not universal agreement.
- Historical rules do not replace present-day evidence.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)《三命通會》的分卷、論命與所收歌訣材料支持本頁說明其彙編性質、檢索方式及多種文本層並存，個別規則仍須回到卷次與篇章A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- 《淵海子平》 (Yuanhai Ziping)《淵海子平》提供若干共享術語與早期子平材料的對照脈絡，支持辨認傳承關係但不等於兩書規則完全相同A foundational Ziping reference for branch months, hidden stems, roots, and stem-branch relationships.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology《三命通會》頁把正文、引文、歌訣、後世註解與現代應用分開，要求案例注明版本和規則，禁止以彙編廣度當作科學效度或事件保證OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.