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A brother facing a proposed severe criminal penalty

Month 卯 · Day 戊寅

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Author: Yehe Laoren (野鶴老人)

Zengshan Buyi (增刪卜易)

Chapter 12: Five-phase control (五行相剋章第十二)

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

「同日妹占兄官事,同此一案亦擬重罪,得否之訟」條

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Reproducible chart

Hexagram 12 否 → Hexagram 6 訟

Changing lines: 2

8 6 8 7 7 7

Original author’s interpretation summary

The author selects fifth-line Shen Metal Siblings and notes that the changing Si Fire Officials/Ghosts line at position two controls it. Chen day clashing top-line Xu Earth Parents, with Earth generating Shen Metal, is interpreted as generation within control. Explicit changing-line control and support through a day-clashed static line are handled separately.

Outcome reported in the book

The text records exemption from execution under a precedent because the father was eighty. Case details, legal provision, people and period are unspecified, so the site cannot independently verify this legal outcome.

Site review boundaries

  1. Old yin at line two changes Pi to Song, matching the text.
  2. Si Fire controlling Shen Metal is a five-phase relation. Chen clashing Xu and Xu Earth generating Shen Metal is a separate author interpretation; the two must not be compressed into a single fortune label.
  3. Historical punishment and litigation are not modern legal-risk assessment. Consult qualified legal professionals for real cases.

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Five-phase generation / control

Basic relation implementation

Five-phase generation and control underlie Najia Six Relations, returning generation/control, and Yuanshen/Jishen relationships. Cases may use several generation/control chains together with void, break, combinations and clashes. The site preserves each fact instead of reducing complex conditions to a score.

Basic generating and controlling relations are calculable. A historical author’s interpretation remains a separate layer, not a uniquely authoritative conclusion.

Hidden movement

Limited display

Zengshan Buyi distinguishes a strong static line clashed by the day as hidden movement from a weak static line clashed by the day as day break. Yilin Buyi also describes a static hexagram meeting a clash as movement. Hidden movement is not an original old-yin or old-yang line and cannot rewrite the actual changing lines or resulting hexagram.

Only day-clash facts are described in seasonal and case contexts. Hidden movement does not generate new changed lines.