Bazi is the powerful and ancient art of destiny reading used by the Chinese for many centuries. Let Dr. Hwang unveil the mystery of Chinese fortune telling through an analytical and logical approach. Readers who are patient enough to read the book in its entirety will not only be rewarded with the tools and ability to unlock their future, but also fulfil their life’s potential. This book is not only for those who are interested in understanding Chinese metaphysics, but also for anyone who would like to clear up any doubts or misunderstandings about this wonderful art of destiny reading.
Study BaZi, the most popular Chinese art of fortune telling, in an entirely new and easy way! Forget about the myths and superstitions that have surrounded it for centuries. Let Dr. Hwang lead you to unveil the mysterious art of BaZi with a logical and analytical perspective.
Dr. Gwan-Hwan Hwang, Ph.D., is a professor of Engineering at Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan, with dozens of papers published in global engineering conventions and SCI journals. His name is also listed in Marquis Who’s Who. With this background, Dr. Hwang studied BaZi for years with the same scientific discipline as he has done in the academic field of engineering.
With a logical and scientific approach, he was able to decipher the ancient art of destiny readings, dusting off the misconceptions and superstitions that have been misleading practitioners and the general public alike for generations, and restoring BaZi to its original beauty.
Dr. Hwang further strengthened his theory by verifying it with thousands of real-life cases, many of which he has been tracking for years. This book summarizes the best of his findings as well as the most representative cases he has gathered so far. Unlike other books about fortune telling, which almost always resort to divine power or myths that cannot be explained with logic, Dr. Hwang illustrates everything about the art of BaZi in a logical and systematic way, making everything easy to understand. Readers shall be able to quickly grasp the concepts and theory behind BaZi, and apply it in their day-to-day lives.
In this book, Dr. Hwang summarizes the principles of BaZi in a systematic way. Readers will be able to quickly understand the system and logic behind BaZi, and start applying it in their daily lives.
In the modern era, where uncertainty has become the norm, a tool that helps people better understand and guide themselves through different situations is more valuable than ever. The art of BaZi, in the hands of those who truly understand it, is like a compass. It not only helps reveal one’s personalities, strengths, and weaknesses, but it also guides one through life’s vicissitudes. Mastering BaZi helps us to better know who we are, manage our lives, and create our own destinies.
Attended Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School and graduated with a Degree and Masters at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Dr. Hwang obtained his Ph.D. from Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan. After serving the military, he obtained a faculty position at a university in Taiwan and published dozens of papers at global engineering conventions and SCI journals.
His name is also listed on Marquis Who’s Who. In 2009, he received tenure and is currently teaching and doing research in the field of science and engineering at a University in Taiwan.
He was previously vice dean of the College of Science of his university as well. Dr. Hwang’s knowledge of BaZi was entirely self-taught and he applies a scientific and analytical approach to the study of destiny reading. Dr. Hwang currently spends his free time helping people resolve their life’s problems and has received admiration and respect from his followers and clients. With the encouragement of his followers, Dr. Hwang has decided to make his findings known through this book.
Went to National Hsinchu Girls' Senior High School and graduated from Taiwan Tsing-Hua University, majoring in foreign languages. Chiang was very active during her university days and was captain of the school’s cheerleading team. She has been teaching English language for over 20 years.
Chiang has a wide range of interests, ranging from philosophy, religion, literature to mountain climbing, speed walking, and jogging. She has very keen observational skills and is character wise. In addition, she practices meditation. Together with her husband who studies Bazi, she has been assisting in collecting all the case studies and partaking in analyses and active discussions with Dr. Hwang. She is currently also providing BaZi consultation and counseling services and has received very positive feedback from her female counterparts and friends.
譯者簡介:
Translator Introduction
Richard Wang
Has a master’s degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Santa Clara University in California. He spent six years in Silicon Valley as an engineering professional in the semiconductor field. In 2006, Richard moved back to Taiwan and worked of McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Over the past ten years, Richard has been both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the high-tech field.
作者序
作者序 1
Gwan-Hwan Hwang (黃冠寰)
Even as of now, it is still very hard for me to believe that I am publishing a book about BaZi. As an engineer by training and a researcher in academic for over 20 years, mastering BaZi was never part of my plan. When I first started years ago, all I wanted to find out was whether BaZi has any truth in it or simply is a thousand-year-old baloney. I did not have any teacher to guide (or misled) me. I studied everything on my own, with the same systematic method I used in my academic research works. In my career I have published many papers and professional articles, but never a book addressed to the general public. Allow me to start by asking you to bear with me if in any part of this book the use of words is less than perfect.
Contrary to most of the books about fortunetelling, the main objective of this book is to help debunk superstitions. There are a lot of fortunetellers who practice without trying to improve or even verify their own analysis. Whenever the result is not accurate, they conveniently attribute it to Karma or some sort of will of divinity. They are never wrong because they always say things that are ambiguous and unverifiable, with the sole purpose to scam more money out of the client’s pocket. Those who fall for their scheme often lose a lot more than just money. Some happy couples are torn apart. Others simply do not dare to enter relationship. Some even send their children away for adoption because some fortuneteller tells them that keeping their children in the family could threaten their own lives. All these are, undoubtedly, superstitions, and should be condemned by all.
The art of fortune telling, especially BaZi, was considered highly valuable in ancient China. Each school of practitioners guarded their knowledge as the top secret. Many of them did so by spreading out false or misleading information so that they can keep the real knowledge within. This is why we are seeing so many false knowledge and superstition in the art of BaZi today. The only way to restore the knowledge to its purest essence is to study it with a scientific and logical attitude. I hope that this book can serve as a beginning of such endeavor.
The influence of BaZi and Five Element to one’s luck and life, although significant, is never absolute. Learning BaZi helps us understand the influence of the energies around us, but the purposes is to help us better plan our moves, not to make us submissive. We are still the masters of our lives. All we have to do is to incorporate the influence of BaZi as we plan ahead and maintain a proactive attitude.
Learning BaZi not only gave me the ability to help others, it also helped change my perspective toward life with a more open-minded and inclusive way. I become more interested in the topic of philosophy and life, and more willing to help others. Not only I make constant charity donation from the income of my BaZi practice, I also urge my clients to do the same.
I would like to thank my wife Hsin-Fen, who co-authored this book with me. Hsin-Fen has been my greatest help throughout the course of my BaZi study. She is a smart lady and is a lot more sensitive in personal interactions than I am. Therefore she can always provide me valuable feedback. A lot of insights and findings that I developed came from her inputs. I always discussed every case with her.
Since the first edition in Chinese was published, our readers have provided us lots of positive feedbacks. Such recognition is the best reward that drives us forward. We have also received lots of questions from readers (prof.hwang.fortune.telling@gmail.com). We always replied each one of them as best as we could. Many readers even visited us in-person. Some of them come all the way to Taiwan from Hong Kong, Singapore, USA, and Canada. I have always been moved seeing that each of them carrying a copy of this book filled with their footnotes and remarks all over the pages. We really appreciate having such a group of supportive readers.
The basic principle of BaZi is simple, but applying it into real lives is a highly complicated art. I have the fortune to have a group of students, who identify with my idea of studying BaZi in scientific and logical perspective, and strengthened our course along the way. For that we are thankful.
This is our first English version. We made a lot of efforts to help English readers cross through the cultural barriers, which could have been the most difficult part for non-Chinese speakers to learn BaZi and perhaps the main reason that BaZi is less known outside the Chinese society. We believe that the principle of BaZi can be learned across cultures and does not need to be lost in translation. With that in mind, we made unprecedented changes such as marking Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches with simple symbols (H1 – H12, E1 – E12) instead of sticking to the Chinese phonetic translations (Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding,…). We also translate the Ten Spirits with the same principle – making it easy to understand for English readers, rather than sticking to the phonetics.
Anther major effort we made in the English version is adding a number of case examples familiar to our English readers. The original Chinese version contains mostly examples of people in Taiwan. To better relate the art of BaZi to our English readers, we added a number of cases examples of persons familiar to English readers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jordan, Van Gogh, and the recent presidential campaigns of US (Trump vs. Clinton) and France (Macron vs. Le Pen). We believe that these examples will bring the art of BaZi closer to our English speakers, and prove that the principle of BaZi is universal.
We are excited to have this book published. We hope you like our book and find the art of BaZi fascinating and look forward to any feedback you may have.
作者序 2
Hsing-Fen Chiang (江幸芬)
I was exposed to fortune telling since I was young. Many of my family members and distant relatives sought help from fortunetellers of all schools, such as Zi-Wei-Dou-Shu (Chinese Astrology), face reading, palm reading, even the local temples with mediums. You name it, they mostly have tried it. Sometimes I went with them and observed the process. Whenever the fortuneteller told them that they are destined to have a rich and prosperous life, they were cheered and felt life full of hope. On the contrary, if the fortuneteller warns them that they will have trouble, lose their wealth or get sick, they got worried and depressed. If the warning is about their marriage, they got suspicious to their other halves and started to nose around, or even force their other half to vow for their loyalty. This sometimes ended up ruining their marriages (which ironically fulfilled the “prophecy”). Even worse, some of them believed in what the fortune teller said and made aggressive investment, in the end losing all his retirement saving.
Having observed what happened to my relatives, I could not help but wonder why different fortune tellers, based on the supposedly same school of technique (for example, BaZi), could derive in opposite conclusions? The same person could be judged to have a great life by one and to have a harsh life by another. For a while I tried to understand the theory behind these arts of fortune telling and bought some books from the market to study. However, the more I read, the more confusing I got. Not only these books lack the basic principle and logic, they are full of special cases and exceptions. I finally gave up and stashed these books deep in the storage. Perhaps fortune telling is for someone more gifted than myself.
A few years ago, my husband brought home a few boxes of book about BaZi, and started to study them in his leisure time. For a researcher in the technology field like him, the inconsistencies and ambiguities filled in these books was really unbearable. He finally decided to get to the bottom of it. He started to analyze and compare across all the books, weeding out the inconsistencies and controversial part. Finally he was able to build his model of modern BaZi theory around the main principle of Yin/Yang and Five Elements. With that he started to verify and modify based on the real-life case examples through practice. This led to all that we present here in this book.
The modern BaZi theory extracted the real essence of BaZi out of superstitions and folklores, making it a practice that could apply to our daily lives. Each of us carries a combination of code from the time of our births. The code combined with the Grand Fortune, Year Flow and Month Flow, created a series of production and countering flow of energies that is unique to each individual, and forming the pattern that affects the person’s life. Knowing your own flow of energy helps us better understand who we are and build our plans accordingly. The flow of energy does not dictate what would happen to you, but simply tells you who you are and how you could best plan your life. It helps you better choose your career, plan your investment, doing the right things at the right time, managing your relationship with the way that best fit you. It is not a superstition, but a tool that you can use to gain control of your life.
I am thankful to be part of the journey of the BaZi research of my husband, who has the patience and attitude to study in the logical and systematic way. It has been a rewarding and memorable experience to study and discuss all the cases with him. I am also very thankful to my friends and family, who openly shared their life experiences to help us verify and improve our practices.
Since the First Edition in Chinese was published in 2013, we received tremendous feedback and acknowledgement around the world. Along with them hundreds of cases for us to further test our theory, making it even more solid. For that I can’t appreciate enough to all these readers who support us.
We cherish each person that is brought to us on the path of studying BaZi. Studying with friends of common interest is always a pleasant thing. I invite you all to join our journey and move forward together.
作者序 1
Gwan-Hwan Hwang (黃冠寰)
Even as of now, it is still very hard for me to believe that I am publishing a book about BaZi. As an engineer by training and a researcher in academic for over 20 years, mastering BaZi was never part of my plan. When I first started years ago, all I wanted to find out was whether BaZi has any truth in it or simply is a thousand-year-old baloney. I did not have any teacher to guide (or misled) me. I studied everything on my own, with the same systematic metho...
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[Contents] Preface
●Chapter 1 Understand BaZi with the Right Mindset
The Limitations of the Traditional BaZi Methods Our Vision
●Chapter 2 Real Cases of BaZi Analysis
Case Study 1 Ankylosing spondylitis Case Study 2 The affair of Chien-Min Wang Case Study 3 No one believed what I said Case Study 4 Never judge a person by appearance Case Study 5 Confidential matters that is not known to family members Case Study 6 In memory of Echo Case Study 7 It happened anyway Case Study 8 Recovery from cancer Case Study 9 Should you take the role of CEO? Case Study 10 Accidents that happened to me and my student
●Chapter 3 The Basic Knowledge of BaZi
Section 1 The Five Elements Production Countering
Section 2 The Ten Heavenly Stems (tian gan) and the Twelve Earthly Branches (di zhi) The Ten Heavenly Stems (天干 tian gan) The Twelve Earthly Branches (地支 di zhi)
Section 3 Solar terms of the year
Section 4 Building a BaZi chart The Four Pillars and the Grand Fortune Building a chart Looking up a person’s BaZi Chart on a website
Section 5 Deriving the Ten Spirits from the relative positions of the Five Elements
Section 6 The structure (格局 ge ju) of a chart
Section 7 Other important interactions among the Five Elements Yin and Yang The Clashes (沖 chong) of the Earthly Branches Coupling and transformation Other
●Chapter 4 Dissecting the Intrinsic Personalities with the Four Pillars
Section 1 Using the Ten Spirits to tell a person’s character Peers Creations Wealth Officers Empowerments
Section 2 Analyzing the interactions among the Four Pillars Cases of Productions Cases of Countering
Section 3 The Four Pillars and the physical health of a person Wood is countered Fire is countered Earth is countered Metal is countered Water is countered Others
Section 4 Case Examples
●Chapter 5 The Science of BaZi Analysis: Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow
Section 1 The energy of Year Flow
Section 2 How to integrate Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow into the analysis along with the Four Pillars
Section 3 Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow and their interactions with the Four Pillars
Section 4 Case Studies Case Study 1 Ankylosing spondylitis Case Study 2 The affair of Chien-Min Wang Case Study 3 No one believed what I said Case Study 4 Never judge a person by their appearance Case Study 5 Not easy to read the chart of a relative Case Study 6 In memory of Echo Case Study 7 Inescapable fate Case Study 8 Recovery from cancer Case Study 9 Should he take the role of CEO? Case Study 10 Accidents that happened to me and my student Case Study 11 Troubled students born in the same month Case Study 12 Can BaZi be used to help make major decisions? Case Study 13 Transformed Month Branch Case Study 14 Transformation affected by Year Flow Case Study 15 The death of Corporal Hong Case Study 16 Is everything predestined? The BaZi of twins Case Study 17 The life of Claude Monet Case Study 18 Lost and found Case Study 19 Observing the energy in your day-to-day life Case Study 20 When disaster strikes: the six fallen heroes and the death of the famous director Chi Po-Lin Case Study 21 Michael Jordan Case Study 22 Elizabeth Taylor: the everlasting Cleopatra Case Study 23 The Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway Case Study 24 Starry Starry Night: The Life of Vincent Van Gogh Case Study 25 The 2016 US presidential election: Trump vs. Clinton Case Study 26 2017 French Presidential Election:Macron vs. Le Pen
●Chapter 6 Taking Your BaZi Analysis Skills to the Next Level
Section 1 The influence of Month Flow
Section 2 How to analyze one’s wealth
Section 3 Special BaZi patterns Submissive Pattern Dominative Pattern
Section 4 When hour of birth is uncertain
Section 5 Picking a good time of birth
Section 6 Is it possible to predict one's time of marriage, time of death, and other major life events?
Section 7 Is one’s life destined?
Section 8 The physics of BaZi
●Chapter 7 Debunking Common Myths and Superstitions
Section 1 The Fallacy of the fu-yi (扶抑) Method
Section 2 Why some practitioners give wrong advice
Section 3 Changing fortune
Section 4 The kinds of BaZi practitioners to keep away from
●Chapter 8 Practicing BaZi to Help Others: Some Advice
The right attitude of BaZi consultation Guiding the energy Principle of confidentiality Fee Skill, ethic, wisdom, opportunity
[Contents] Preface
●Chapter 1 Understand BaZi with the Right Mindset
The Limitations of the Traditional BaZi Methods Our Vision
●Chapter 2 Real Cases of BaZi Analysis
Case Study 1 Ankylosing spondylitis Case Study 2 The affair of Chien-Min Wang Case Study 3 No one believed what I said Case Study 4 Never judge a person by appearance Case Study 5 Confidential matters that is not known to family members Case Study 6 In memory of Echo Case Study 7 It happened anyway Case Study...