Zi Ping Zhen Quan: Month Command and Structure
Learn how Zi Ping Zhen Quan organizes Month Command, structures, success, failure, rescue, and useful functions while keeping base text and later commentary distinct.
Overview
Zi Ping Zhen Quan (子平真詮, Zǐ Píng Zhēn Quán) is an influential Qing-era presentation of Ziping structure analysis, commonly associated with Shen Xiaozhan and widely read through later editions and commentary. It gives the Month Command a central role, then examines how a structure is established, succeeds, fails, changes, or receives rescue through the Ten Gods and their relations. It does not reduce the chart to the Month Branch alone, and its structural useful function is not automatically identical to a balancing or climate-regulation choice. Readers should identify the base passage, later editorial layer, adopted terminology, and complete formation conditions. The text provides a disciplined decision order, not a license to force every chart into one label.
At a glance
- Period
- Qing-era Ziping text
- Central anchor
- Month Command and structure formation
- Decision terms
- Success, failure, change, rescue, and use
- Text layers
- Base text, editions, and later commentary
- Best use
- Traceable structure-analysis sequence
- Not equivalent to
- Month-Branch literalism or one useful-god formula
Identify the edition and commentary layer
Modern readers often meet the work through annotated editions. Wording, punctuation, headings, and explanatory conclusions may belong to different editorial layers.
Cite the base passage and commentator separately. If attribution or wording is uncertain, report the uncertainty instead of converting a received edition into a single original voice.
- Name the edition and annotator.
- Keep original passage and explanation distinct.
Follow the structure decision order
Begin with Month Command and its revealed function, then examine Day-Master capacity, relevant Ten Gods, roots, placement, combinations, controls, and whether the structure is supported or damaged.
State the formation rule before discussing success, failure, rescue, or change. A structure name without its enabling evidence is only a candidate label.
- Establish formation before outcome.
- Show damage and rescue evidence separately.
Do not merge every useful-function method
A function that protects or completes a structure answers a structural question. A balancing or climate-regulation method may identify a different need because it begins from another model.
When methods agree, show why. When they differ, keep separate outputs and state which question each solves rather than inventing a hidden priority rule.
- Label structural, balancing, and climate uses.
- Do not resolve method conflict silently.
Do not force one structure or promise an outcome
Mixed, changing, weakly formed, or disputed evidence should remain visible. A favorable structural label does not guarantee status, wealth, career, marriage, health, or conduct.
Use the text for historical and interpretive study, verify calculation independently, and return consequential decisions to observable facts and appropriate expertise.
- Preserve mixed and unresolved cases.
- Structure labels are not life guarantees.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《子平真詮》 (True Explanations of Ziping)《子平真詮》的月令、格局、用神、成敗、救應與歲運篇章支持本頁介紹其判讀次序；不同整理本的章名、標點與註釋須保留版本資訊A major reference for month-command, structure, and contextual Bazi interpretation.
- 《滴天髓》 (Dripping Heavenly Marrow)《滴天髓》及其註本提供全局氣勢與體用語彙的比較背景，支持辨認方法差異，不能把兩套文獻的術語無條件合併A core later text on Bazi balance, seasonal strength, and relational reading.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology《子平真詮》頁以可重現順序整理規則，要求列出支持、破壞、救應和反證，禁止用格局名稱直接保證職業、財富、婚姻或人生高低OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.