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What Are Sequential Four Pillars (四柱順布) in BaZi?

Learn the literal Year–Month–Day–Hour order behind Sequential Four Pillars, what the one-sentence source establishes, and what it leaves unresolved.

Simplified Chinese
四柱顺布
Traditional Chinese
四柱順布
Pinyin
Sì Zhù Shùn Bù
Also known as
Four Pillars Arranged in Sequence · Si Zhu Shun Bu

Editorially reviewed:

Overview

Sequential Four Pillars is the workbook’s English name for 四柱順布. The entire source rule says that Hour follows Day, Day follows Month and Month follows Year, with the before-and-after order undisturbed. Read from Year to Hour, the intended direction is therefore Year → Month → Day → Hour. The sentence supports a sequence test across four actual pillars, but gives no chart example, numeric distance, cycle-wrap convention, treatment of duplicates or alternative school table. OpenFate does not claim an automatic verdict from this under-specified line. It preserves the four actual pillars and requires any future detector to declare its exact sexagenary-order policy first.

At a glance

Pillars compared
Year, Month, Day and Hour
First relation
Month follows Year
Second relation
Day follows Month
Third relation
Hour follows Day
Source limitation
No example or distance policy
Product boundary
No OpenFate sequential-pillar detector

The source fixes direction across the four real pillars

Its phrase “Hour follows Day, Day follows Month, Month follows Year” establishes a Year-to-Hour reading direction and rejects a scrambled order.

Each compared value must be the complete sexagenary identity of its actual pillar. Matching only stems, branches or elements is a different test.

  • Read Year → Month → Day → Hour.
  • Compare complete pillars rather than isolated attributes.

One sentence cannot supply every adjacency policy

The entry has no example showing whether each pillar must be immediately next, how a Gui-to-Jia wrap works, or whether a repeated pillar breaks the sequence.

A school may document a reproducible convention, but it must be labelled as that school’s policy rather than inserted into the source text.

  • Declare distance, wrap and duplicate rules before classification.
  • Keep unsupported cases unclassified.

OpenFate does not turn a short gloss into hidden engine logic

The product preserves the Year, Month, Day and Hour pillars produced by the existing deterministic chart engine.

There is no Sequential Four Pillars detector. No pillar is reordered, normalized or replaced, and no score, report or saved chart changes.

  • Keep the calculated four-pillar order unchanged.
  • No reorder, synthetic adjacency or report mutation.

An orderly chart does not prove an orderly life

The name describes a formal arrangement, not a validated measure of personality, discipline or future events.

Do not infer intelligence, morality, career progress, income, rank, relationships, safety, mental health, physical health or lifespan.

  • No personality, discipline, career or rank conclusion.
  • No relationship, mental-health, physical-health or lifespan prediction.

Sources and editorial basis

  1. 《三命通會》 (Sanming Tonghui)
    《古今圖書集成》藝術典第609卷所錄《三命通會》「四柱順布」唯一規則：「時次日，日次月，月次年，先後不亂」A historical compilation covering stems and branches, Ten Gods, Nayin, Shen Sha, and multiple classical pattern systems.
  2. OpenFate Editorial Methodology
    只確定年到月到日到時的完整六十甲子柱方向；原文無命例、相鄰距離、癸甲循環、重複柱政策故維持未分類，未實作則不重排正規化替換柱位、不判不改分數報告儲存，並排除性格自律智慧道德事業收入職級關係安全健康壽命推斷OpenFate separates deterministic chart calculation, traditional interpretation, and modern editorial explanation.
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