What Is Ink Pool Spring (墨池湧泉) in BaZi?
Learn the exact pillar pairings and four-pillar example behind Ink Pool Gushing Spring, its Food God context, and OpenFate limits.
Overview
Ink Pool Gushing Spring is the working English name for 墨池湧泉, transmitted in one source line as 墨池涌泉. The Food God section first says Xin-Si obtains Gui-Si and Gui-Hai, then cites the four pillars Xin-Si, Ren-Chen, Gui-Si and Gui-Hai. It adds specific analogies: Bing-Yin with Wu-Yin, Wu-Shen with Geng-Shen, Ji-Si with Xin-Hai, Geng-Wu with Ren-Shen, Jia-Xu with Bing-Yin, and Ren-Chen with Jia-Shen. The second stem in each analogy is the first stem’s Food God, but the branch pair changes and the passage does not state a general algorithm. OpenFate therefore records the exact source set, does not equate the title with automatic literary talent, and has no detector for it.
At a glance
- Lead source set
- Xin-Si with Gui-Si and Gui-Hai
- Recorded example
- Xin-Si, Ren-Chen, Gui-Si, Gui-Hai
- Additional analogies
- Six exact first-pillar and Food-God-pillar pairings
- Stable relation
- The second stem is Food God for the first stem
- Unstated rule
- The source does not explain a complete branch-generation algorithm
- Product boundary
- No OpenFate Ink Pool Gushing Spring detector
The source anchors the name in one example and six additional analogies
The opening set is Xin-Si with Gui-Si and Gui-Hai, illustrated by the four pillars Xin-Si, Ren-Chen, Gui-Si and Gui-Hai. The text then compares Bing-Yin with Wu-Yin, Wu-Shen with Geng-Shen, Ji-Si with Xin-Hai, Geng-Wu with Ren-Shen, Jia-Xu with Bing-Yin, and Ren-Chen with Jia-Shen.
In every analogy, the second stem is Food God for the first stem. The branch choices are not uniform, however, and the passage supplies no formula for producing other pairs. Exact source matching is safer than completing a table by symmetry.
- Preserve the complete stem-branch pairs and the cited four-pillar example.
- Do not reduce the pattern to “Food God appears” or infer unprinted pairs.
A literary image is not an independent chart-reading rule
The title evokes ink and a spring, and the source attaches literary-status language. That imagery does not explain why each branch was chosen, whether position is mandatory, or how month command, strength and competing structures change the result.
A reviewed reading must keep explicit source facts separate from later interpretation. Food God effectiveness, roots, season, combinations and the main chart pattern remain relevant, but they should not be presented as if the short passage stated a modern scoring model.
- Label source facts and interpretive context separately.
- Let the main chart structure outrank this rare literary image.
OpenFate can compare pillars but has no branch-completion policy for this title
OpenFate calculates complete pillars, Day Master, Ten Gods, Food God, roots and relations. It can display the participants found in the historical examples without modifying them.
It does not publish Ink Pool Gushing Spring. A detector would require an exact source table, positional rules, clarification of the lead three-pillar set, duplicate handling and counterexamples. This article does not change calculations or existing reports.
- Use a versioned exact-match table if the feature is ever implemented.
- Fail closed rather than guessing a missing branch rule.
The pattern does not measure intelligence, writing ability or social rank
The source’s literary prestige claim is historical. A matching pillar cannot establish literacy, intelligence, creativity, school results, authorship, academic credentials, office, income or reputation.
Education and career decisions require demonstrated skills and current evidence. Do not use a poetic pattern name to label ability or personal worth.
- Exclude intelligence, talent, education, career and status guarantees.
- Treat the title as historical nomenclature, not an aptitude test.
Sources and editorial basis
- 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)卷五「墨池涌泉」：辛巳得癸巳癸亥、辛巳壬辰癸巳癸亥命例及丙寅戊寅等六組類推A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
- OpenFate Editorial Methodology保存完整干支例表、不推測地支生成算法，食神關係與文學意象分層，排除智力才華學歷官位保證OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.