Entry through imperial examinations: Si month, Jia-Yin day

Entry

Entry into study through imperial examinations

Month 巳 · Day 甲寅

Source location

Author: Zhang Shibao (張世寶)

Yilin Buyi (易林補遺)

Chapter 1: General judgments of Yilin (易林總斷章第一)

Edition: Wikisource transcription (維基文庫校錄本)

「問進學，巳月甲寅日需之兌卦」條

Open public source

Reproducible chart

Hexagram 5 需 → Hexagram 58 兌

Changing lines: 3, 4

7 7 9 6 7 8

Original author’s interpretation summary

The author first lists adverse conditions: a Descendants line at the host position and a Siblings line also changing, and no visible Parents/document line. The day then controls or clashes with changing lines, and Si-month Parents is selected as a hidden line through this book’s method, interpreted as good within adversity. The site reviews these parallel conditions without applying imperial-examination cases to modern examinations.

Outcome reported in the book

The text records entry into the prefectural school with first rank. Person, year, region and examination archives are not supplied, preventing independent verification.

Site review boundaries

1. Old yang at line three and old yin at line four change Xu to Dui, matching the text.
2. The document hidden line comes from Yilin Buyi’s system. The site’s current algorithm may produce a different structure, and that difference must be retained.
3. This belongs to the historical imperial-examination context, not advice on modern admission, examination ranking or education choices.

Reading boundaries

Reported outcomes represent the original author’s account, not independent historical verification. This case is not an automatic interpretation template for a user’s present result.

Topic tags identify structures involved in this case, not divinatory efficacy verified by the site.

Working translation of the site’s Chinese editorial case review, not a translation of the classical source. Native-language review is pending; original source names and locators remain in Chinese.

Month and day branches

Calendrical structure implementation

The month reference uses the branch of the solar-term month; the day reference uses the day branch for the selected time-zone date. Zengshan Buyi and Yilin Buyi both use these references in subsequent discussions of strength, generation, control, clashes and combinations. The site calculates them with its calendar engine and cross-checks the month and day recorded in each case.

Month and day are chart references, not independent fortune judgments. A classical case without a year cannot identify a unique Gregorian date.

• 《增刪卜易·月將章第十六》 · Adopted basis: the month reference follows the solar-term month.
• 《易林補遺·易林總斷章第一》 · Case cross-check: month and day inform subsequent clashes, combinations and strength assessments.

Hidden lines

Limited implementation

The site follows Bushi Zhengzong: search for a hidden line only when a Six Relations category is entirely absent from the original hexagram, taking the matching position in the pure hexagram of its palace. Yilin Buyi instead uses a yin–yang interchange system in which every line has hidden and visible counterparts; that is a separate method.

The adopted convention must be stated. The two systems’ hidden-line positions must not be combined, and their generating or controlling relations do not automatically produce fortune judgments.

• 《卜筮正宗·伏神正傳》 · Adopted basis: search the palace’s pure hexagram only for a category absent from the original hexagram.
• 《易林補遺·易林總斷章第一》 · Different system: yin–yang interchange, with hidden and visible counterparts at every line.