[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":96},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content-topic-eight-mansions-feng-shui:en":3},{"topic":4,"articles":37,"tools":85},{"slug":5,"title":6,"eyebrow":7,"description":8,"relatedTools":9,"articleIdeas":12,"seo":17,"sections":21},"eight-mansions-feng-shui","Eight Mansions Feng Shui","Ba Zhai feng shui","A working guide to Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) feng shui: the personal ming gua, the house gua taken from a measured sitting direction, the eight-star table that joins them, and the three places the tradition actually reads.",[10,11],"bazi-four-pillars","bazi-marriage",[13,14,15,16],"Ming Gua Calculation","Four Auspicious Directions","Bed Placement by Eight Mansions","Room Selection by Personal Gua",{"title":18,"description":19,"path":20},"Eight Mansions Feng Shui Guide","Learn Eight Mansions feng shui: ming gua calculation, eight directions, favorable sectors, and practical home layout applications.","\u002Ftopics\u002Feight-mansions-feng-shui",[22,25,28,31,34],{"heading":23,"body":24},"Two trigrams, and a lookup between them","Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai, 八宅) is the smallest complete system in feng shui. It needs two trigrams and nothing else. The gua of the person — the ming gua — is derived from the birth year and gender, with the year adjusted if the birthday falls before that year’s lunar new year. The gua of the house comes from its sitting direction, measured with a compass rather than assumed. Put the two side by side and the tradition hands back a fixed table: eight directions, each with a star already attached. There is no chart to draw, no period to look up, no star to fly. That smallness is the point, and it is also why the system gets claimed for far more than it does.",{"heading":26,"body":27},"The eight stars are a ranking, not a forecast","The table always produces the same eight names. Four are read as favourable — Sheng Qi (生气), Tian Yi (天医), Yan Nian (延年), Fu Wei (伏位). Four are read as unfavourable — Jue Ming (绝命), Wu Gui (五鬼), Liu Sha (六煞), Huo Hai (祸害). Which direction receives which name depends entirely on the gua you started from, and the assignment is fixed by the Da You Nian song (大游年歌), a mnemonic that generates the whole table from a line of verse. Nothing in that process looks at your house, your health, or your year. It is arithmetic on a birth year and a compass bearing. Read the eight names as a vocabulary for ranking directions, and the system stops pretending to know things it was never built to know.",{"heading":29,"body":30},"East group and west group: the rule people quote most","The eight gua split into two sets. Kan 1, Li 9, Zhen 3 and Xun 4 form the east group; Kun 2, Dui 7, Qian 6 and Gen 8 form the west group. An east-group person’s four favourable directions are the east-group directions, and the same holds on the west side. From that comes a claim you will hear often: east-group people should live in east-group houses. The underlying rule is real, but the veto is not. In a city flat you rarely choose the sitting direction, and a household of four frequently contains both groups. What the rule can honestly do is rank the rooms inside the house you already have.",{"heading":32,"body":33},"Door, main bedroom, stove: where the tradition actually looks","Classical Ba Zhai is not a room-by-room audit. It reads three points — the door (门), the main bedroom (主) and the stove (灶) — and asks whether each sits in a favourable or unfavourable direction for the people who use it. The reason is historical. In the houses the system was built for, those three points were where household life actually happened, and surveying every square metre would have been wasted effort. Modern homes have more rooms and different routines, so keep the three-point habit as a way of setting priorities, then add the two or three rooms you genuinely spend hours in, and treat the rest as optional.",{"heading":35,"body":36},"Where Eight Mansions stops","Three limits are worth stating plainly. First, it ignores form: the road outside, the shape of the plot, a bedroom with no window. A favourable direction on a bad room is still a bad room. Second, it has no time dimension — unlike the flying star systems, Ba Zhai does not shift with the period or the year, so it cannot say anything about when. Third, the compass reading is the weak link: a phone compass, a steel door frame or a five-degree error can push a direction into the next sector and rename every entry in the table. Use Eight Mansions as a tie-breaker between layouts that already work, never as the reason to accept a layout that does not.",[38,52,63,74],{"slug":39,"title":40,"description":41,"category":42,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":43,"authorId":44,"publishedAt":45,"updatedAt":46,"summary":47,"relatedTools":48,"seo":49},"ming-gua-calculation","Ming Gua Calculation: Finding Your Personal Gua Number","A step-by-step guide to calculating your ming gua number — the foundation of Eight Mansions feng shui for personal direction analysis.","Feng Shui","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fminggua-jisuan-fangfa.html","zhang-hao","2026-01-29","2026-10-17","Your ming gua number determines your favorable and unfavorable directions in Eight Mansions feng shui. Calculation is simple but essential.",[10],{"title":40,"description":50,"path":51},"Learn ming gua calculation: step-by-step guide to finding your personal gua number for Eight Mansions feng shui.","\u002Farticles\u002Fming-gua-calculation",{"slug":53,"title":54,"description":55,"category":42,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":56,"authorId":44,"publishedAt":57,"updatedAt":46,"summary":58,"relatedTools":59,"seo":60},"four-auspicious-directions","Four Auspicious Directions in Eight Mansions","A comprehensive guide to the four auspicious directions in Eight Mansions feng shui — Sheng Qi, Tian Yi, Yan Nian, and Fu Wei — and how to use them.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fsiji-xiangfang-jiangjie.html","2026-01-31","The four auspicious directions bring different types of positive energy. Understanding each helps you optimize bed placement, desk orientation, and room selection.",[10],{"title":54,"description":61,"path":62},"Learn the four auspicious directions: Sheng Qi, Tian Yi, Yan Nian, Fu Wei and their practical applications.","\u002Farticles\u002Ffour-auspicious-directions",{"slug":64,"title":65,"description":66,"category":42,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":67,"authorId":44,"publishedAt":68,"updatedAt":46,"summary":69,"relatedTools":70,"seo":71},"bed-placement-eight-mansions","Bed Placement by Eight Mansions Feng Shui","A practical guide to bed placement using Eight Mansions principles — aligning your bed with personal favorable directions for better sleep and energy.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fbazhai-chuangwei-buju.html","2026-02-02","Eight Mansions bed placement considers your personal ming gua and the room sector to optimize sleep quality and personal energy.",[10],{"title":65,"description":72,"path":73},"Learn bed placement with Eight Mansions: aligning your bed with favorable directions for better sleep and energy.","\u002Farticles\u002Fbed-placement-eight-mansions",{"slug":75,"title":76,"description":77,"category":42,"topicSlug":5,"legacyPath":78,"authorId":44,"publishedAt":79,"updatedAt":46,"summary":80,"relatedTools":81,"seo":82},"room-selection-personal-gua","Room Selection by Personal Gua: Eight Mansions Guide","A comprehensive guide to selecting rooms based on your personal gua number — which sectors suit you best and how to optimize any room.","\u002Fpages\u002Farticles\u002Fbazhai-fangjian-xuanze.html","2026-02-04","Your personal gua indicates which room sectors are most compatible. This guide helps you choose and optimize rooms in any home layout.",[10],{"title":76,"description":83,"path":84},"Learn room selection by personal gua: which sectors suit you best and how to optimize any room.","\u002Farticles\u002Froom-selection-personal-gua",[86,92],{"slug":10,"title":87,"shortTitle":88,"description":89,"category":90,"status":91},"Four Pillars BaZi Calculator","Four Pillars","Enter a Gregorian birth date and local time to see the four pillars, hidden stems, Ten Gods, Na Yin, branch relations, and element counts, with clear calendar and time-boundary limits.","BaZi","live",{"slug":11,"title":93,"shortTitle":94,"description":95,"category":90,"status":91},"BaZi Relationship Comparison Worksheet","Relationship Comparison","Compare two anonymous birth profiles with the traditional rules explained on this page, then turn the result into questions about communication, expectations, boundaries, and uncertainty rather than predicting relationship outcomes.",1792206140558]