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关于青鸾信

Auspice, 青鸾信 (Qingluan Xin) in Chinese, is a BaZi (八字) chart, the birth-chart branch of Chinese astrology. It is computed from your birth details, read closely with Master Xuanyuan (玄元先生), and open to the questions that come next. The name is also the promise, a clearer way to read yourself. The first reading is only the opening; the questions keep going after it.

The Name

Auspice comes from the Latin auspicium, built from avis (bird) and specere (to watch). Ancient Romans read the flight of birds to interpret the will of the gods. In the East, the Book of Documents(尚书) records “The phoenix descended at the ninth movement of the sacred music” (箫韶九成， 凤凰来仪), one of classical Chinese culture's enduring images of auspicious harmony.

Across two ancient worlds, East and West arrived at a shared image. A bird carries a message across the distance. For us, that message is an invitation to look more closely at your own patterns.

品牌母题「有凤来仪」出自《尚书·益稷》，产品中文名「青鸾信」取自古典文学中青鸟、青鸾传信的意象，英文名 Auspice 源自拉丁语 auspicium，意为观鸟卜兆，同一个产品的两个名字。东西方都在「鸟为信使」这一点上交汇。

How It Works

Auspice computes the chart with a deterministic engine, not with AI. You enter your birth date, time, and place; the engine returns your Four Pillars, Five Elements distribution, Day Master, and luck cycles. The same input always produces the same chart. The AI never touches the arithmetic; its only job is to translate the chart's computed facts into Master Xuanyuan's voice.

The engine decides what the chart contains. Xuanyuan helps you read it. Start with the initial interpretation. Later, come back with a career decision, a relationship question, or a new season of life. The chart never changes between visits; the questions you bring to it do.

A reading is written as prose in one voice, and it stays open after you finish it. You can ask why a claim was made, disagree with it, or bring in a decision you are weighing. The arithmetic stays fixed and checkable; the conversation does not. That is what this site means by self-discovery: learning to name your own patterns.

Concepts Worth Knowing

The concept indexexplains every term a reading uses. In brief: the Four Pillars are the chart's four time coordinates, one each for the year, month, day, and hour of birth. The Day Master is the day's stem, the reference point the whole chart is read against. The Five Elements describe how the chart's parts generate and control one another. Luck cycles add the dimension of time; they mark seasons of a life, not a fixed future.

Three technical details matter before any interpretation. First, the true-solar-time correction converts clock time to the sun's actual position, and it can change the hour pillar. Second, a solar term is a precise astronomical moment, not an all-day label; a birth a few hours before the boundary still belongs to the earlier month or year. Third, Nayin (纳音) is a traditional layer of imagery attached to the sixty stem-branch pairs. If you are comparing tools, the calculator test and the AI accuracy guide show how to check the arithmetic before trusting anyone's prose.

What the Readings Are Based On

The readings rest on two foundations, and both are named. The first is arithmetic: stem-branch conversion, true solar time, hidden stems, and the twelve stages are all computed by our own engine and cross-checked against an independent almanac library. Every convention and every scoring weight is published on the method page. None of this is a matter of opinion, and if you disagree with a convention, you can point to exactly which one.

The second is the source texts. The interpretive vocabulary comes from the Chinese primary literature of the Zi Ping (子平) school: the Yuanhai Ziping (渊海子平, Song dynasty), the Sanming Tonghui (三命通会, Ming dynasty, catalogued in the imperial Siku Quanshu), and the Ziping Zhenquan (子平真诠, Qing dynasty). We read these in the original Chinese. When a reference page makes a claim from one of them, it names the text and links an edition you can read yourself; the Day Master page shows what that looks like. Where the tradition never settled a question, the page says so instead of quietly picking a side.

We claim no lineage, no certification, and no master-to-disciple transmission. What is here is a carefully built engine plus a close reading of the source texts, and both are laid out so you can check them yourself.

Master Xuanyuan (玄元先生)

Master Xuanyuan (玄元先生) is a persona, not a real person. He is Qingluan Xin's BaZi interpreter, addressed as 先生 — the traditional courtesy title for a reader of the classical texts. He speaks in the first person, warm but with boundaries: he points out patterns directly, and he always ends on an observation or a practical next step. Three convictions shape how he reads:

• BaZi is a model of personality and circumstance. The chart is static; the person is alive.
• Destiny is the hand you're dealt. Fortune is the order you play it. How you play is your own business.
• A good life must be cultivated; a weak point can be nourished. Knowing your chart is for living with more composure.

Built Independently, Shan Liu

Auspice is independently built by Shan Liu in Vancouver, Canada. It is positioned as traditional culture and self-knowledge. We make no claim to change fate, avert disasters, or guarantee predictions. Health guidance stays limited to wellness and constitution, and never stands in for medical care.

青鸾信由温哥华华人独立开发者 Shan Liu 开发，定位是传统文化与自我认知，不是算命，不宣称改命、消灾或必然应验。健康建议限于养生调理，不替代医疗诊断。

One person writes this, and one person gets things wrong. When something here is wrong, a quotation, a date, a chart rule, the page is fixed, the original wording is quoted in the log, that page’s modified date moves to the correction date, and the entry shows in the footer of the page that was wrong. The whole log is public at Corrections, including when it is empty. Errors go to [email protected].

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