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Chapter 106 of 110
柳庄神相
The art of facial vital qi and color comprises a total of two hundred and forty-four methods. Only by mastering these principles can one be considered truly initiated. 🌈
The correspondence between the five colors and time/space is as follows: Blue-green 🌱 externally corresponds to the Heavenly Stems Jia and Yi (Eastern Wood), and internally corresponds to Mao (the proper position of Wood); white ⚪ with a bright, moist quality arises during Ren Gui Hai Zi (the time of Northern Water's vigor); if white is tinged with yellow and bright-moist, it corresponds to Shen You (the time of Western Metal's vigor); hair-color (extremely faint color) corresponds within seven months; black qi ⚫ corresponds within one month; yellow 🟡 corresponds to Wu Ji (Central Earth); if yellow is tinged with stagnation, it corresponds to Chen Xu Chou Wei (the months of Earth's vigor in the four seasons); red 🔴 corresponds to Bing Ding (Southern Fire); purple 🟣 manifests on Si Wu days when Fire is vigorous; light red manifests on days when Fire is vigorous, while heavy red manifests on days when Water is vigorous.
Travel direction formula: Those with heavy Water-color should travel south 🔥; those with heavy Fire-color should travel north 💧; blue-green suits traveling east 🌱; white suits traveling west ⚪; those with heavy red should travel far beyond a thousand li to avert disaster; those with heavy black should remain still rather than travel abroad; those with yellow bright-moist may gain wealth traveling south. ✨
For travel, one observes only the brightness or darkness of the Auspicious Horse (Yima) position: only with yellow and bright color may one seek wealth; dark and stagnant color means one will encounter fright on the journey; black and red color attacking the life-force portends danger of overturning disaster. If the Yima or the Gate of Life (Mingmen) is dark, one should not travel; if the Gate of Life is bright and the Yintang (between the brows) is open, even marching to war holds no fear. If the Lower Granary (Xiaku) is dark, beware of slander from petty people; if the Heavenly Granary (Tiancang) is moist, one will encounter noble patrons' support and gain wealth and joy on the journey; one must observe whether the Border Regions (Biandi) are bright to determine fortune or misfortune.
Second Principle: Black encircling the Sun (Taiyang), blue-green obscuring the mouth corners — the ancient method for judging death, requiring careful discernment.
Third Principle: Heavenly Broadness and Forehead Corners (the face comprises twenty-six regions total).
The Sun-Moon Horns and areas before the ear gates should not have blue-green dark stagnation. The ancient text says: "When yellow qi issues forth from the High-Broad region, within ten days one is promoted; when blue-green reaches the Gate of Life, within half a year one's longevity is diminished." The Sun-Moon Horns connect to the Heavenly Broadness region — they should favor bright yellow and avoid blue-green darkness. ⚡
Fourth Principle: The three regions of Yintang, Nianshou, and Zhuntou most taboo red, dark, and blue-green.
These three regions govern one's entire life and are the root of existence; therefore physiognomy begins with these three regions as primary. 🔥
Fifth Principle: Vital qi one moment bright, one moment dark, one moment glowing, one moment opening — this is not an auspicious omen.
All vital qi should properly be stable in a single color, not flickering between brightness and darkness with uncertainty. Though one may temporarily gain new bright color, it is no blessing — fear that excessive vigor may breed calamity. Therefore when dark color has just begun to open, one must not hastily judge it as auspicious. ⚠️
Sixth Principle: All five colors present together is called "Miscellaneous Flowers" (Zahua).
Colors should properly be only two or three in compatible combination, and one must still examine the relationships of generation, support, overcoming, and restraint. For example, if red is scarce, the presence of blue-green is not taboo (Wood generates Fire 🔥); if yellow is scarce, the presence of red is beneficial (Fire generates Earth 🟡). Those that invoke mutual generation are good; those that invoke mutual overcoming are inauspicious. When all five colors are complete and chaotically spread across the entire face, this is called "Miscellaneous Flowers" — if one undertakes no enterprise or seeks no wealth, then fine; but upon founding any undertaking, ruin will follow. The text says: "Blue-green and yellow are not taboo with red and white; when they spread horizontally across the entire face, it rules the breaking of the family and separation of loved ones." 🌪
Seventh Principle: When color issues at the Three Yang, responses come swiftly.
Taiyang (Sun), Mingmen (Gate of Life), and Zhuntou (Nose Tip) are the Three Yang on the face. If vital color manifests at these Three Yang regions, verification will be swift as spirit. It is also said: "When the Three Yang are bright and vigorous, wealth comes naturally from heaven." 💰
Eighth Principle: Qi is born within the skin; it completes only after a hundred days.
All vital qi originates deep within the flesh, and only after one hundred days does it issue forth upon the epidermis as visible color, whereupon it can verify fortune or misfortune. While vital qi is yet unsettled, good qi must not be immediately pronounced auspicious, nor stagnant qi immediately pronounced inauspicious. One must first discern the relationship between qi and blood — qi is the vanguard of blood; qi moves and then color is born; only when color has settled can fortune be judged. 🌱
Ninth Principle: Upon first glance it appears vivid but upon prolonged viewing it disperses of itself — difficult to pronounce wealth or blessing.
Where vital qi first appears dazzlingly bright but disperses and fails to concentrate upon prolonged viewing, though it be a joyful color, it will not verify. ❌
Tenth Principle: Upon first glance it appears murky, but upon prolonged viewing it becomes bright and moist — this invariably brings blessing, longevity, and robust health.
Where vital qi first appears hazy and indistinct, but upon prolonged viewing bright moisture penetrates through, this is true color from within the skin and within the membrane, precisely the sign of solid roots. With roots already firm, why worry that branches and leaves will not flourish? This is the omen of issuing fortune and obtaining wealth. ✅
Eleventh Principle: When an elder's color is overly fresh-delicate, it rules harming wife and opposing children, and a life of toil.
For those above fifty, vital qi should not be overly fresh-delicate (this is instead a sign of emptiness and instability), ruling harm to wife and children through opposition, weariness, and hard toil. Youth around twenty should likewise not have floating brightness (surface bright but inner empty), which rules ruin. ⚠️
Twelfth Principle: When the Progeny Palace (Lunkuo) and Gate of Life are dark, and brow-tips and Xuazhen (Mysterious Pearl) are blue-green, seek neither fame nor profit.
The ear is the Outer Study Hall, should not be dark and stagnant, and most favors bright freshness. It is also said: "When literature stagnates, one's books turn to naught" — one whose brow corners grow blue-green color and whose Gate of Life is not open is ultimately but a poor scholar. The former text says: "When the ears are whiter than the face, one becomes famed throughout court and countryside." Once the ear rim is dark, one's literature scatters and one's books are empty — certainly a person without talent or learning. 📚
Thirteenth Principle: Palms red at center, knuckles moist — with broad learning and extensive inquiry, how could one fail to ascend to the clouds?
Wherever the palm center is red and moist and the knuckles are pure white, this is the fortunate physiognomy of the Study Hall — how could one fail to achieve eminence and ascend to the clouds? 🎓
Fourteenth Principle: Inside like white powder, outside bright and glossy — though one may prosper, it lasts not beyond one year.
Where the inner vital color resembles dried bone or white powder, though the exterior be vivid and bright, though one may rise, this lasts no more than a year and in the end returns to poverty. ❌
Fifteenth Principle: When the inner color is thoroughly infused with blood yet the exterior resembles darkness, one passes through a full year.
When the inner vital energy is sufficient and the exterior color has not yet opened, one must wait one year until blood is sufficient and vital energy vigorous, whereupon it will naturally open. When the interior and exterior are transparent and luminous, with light and radiance and completeness of blessing and emolument. ✅
Sixteenth Principle: When qi is sufficient and color is sufficient but spirit is not sufficient, it is difficult to pronounce blessing and emolument.
All vital color is the sprout of spirit (shen). If spirit is not vigorous, then despite possessing vital color, one cannot prosper; even if prospering, one finds it difficult to live long. For youth to prosper requires spirit, qi, and color all complete; for elders to flourish requires blood, skin, and moisture all excellent. Only when spirit, vital energy, and color are all present is there utility. All elder physiognomy requires blood vigor and the scalp fully moist to be flourishing; if the skin is withered and the blood weak, death follows. ☠️
Seventeenth Principle: In general, vital qi is observed as a whole body.
Vital qi originates from the head, face, limbs, body, lower back, and abdomen — it must be observed within totality. If even one area is not vigorous, one cannot expect longevity; one must not look only at individual palaces and regions. 🌍
Eighteenth Principle: In refined observation of color, examine down to the minutest hair.
In all examination of color, one must attain exact detail at each individual palace, observing every hair and division clearly — only then is there utility. Those who observe in overarching general terms will often find no verification. 🔍
Nineteenth Principle: Both cheekbones flushed with red, the Four Granaries bright — family wealth increases daily.
Cheekbones red and moist, the Heavenly Granary and Earthly Granary bright — one's source of wealth steadily advances. Great prosperity can accordingly be known. The song says: "Both cheekbones spouting fire, eyes like stars" — precisely this description. 💰
Twentieth Principle: When the Five Stars possess proper colors and forms excellence, eminence ascends upon the road to clouds.
This is called the Five Stars possessing proper colors. With such vital coloring, success in public office or commerce naturally yields profit. ✨
Twenty-First Principle: When the Four Cardinal Regions reveal yellow light, how could one fail to prosper?
The Four Cardinals are the Yintang, Zhuntou, and both Cheekbones. When yellow-bright color appears at the Four Cardinals, this rules the omen of establishing the family, founding a career, and setting the foundations of enterprises and estates. 🏠
Twenty-Second Principle: When the Six Positions are dark, they destroy; when bright yellow, they gather.
The Six Positions are the Three Yang and Three Yin. Above the eyes is also called the Dragon Palace. It will be harmed by blue-green darkness, favors yellow brightness; harmed by dryness, favors red moisture. The ancients say: "When the Dragon Palace is withered and sunken, one gains no children by fate" — precisely this saying. 👨👩👧
Twenty-Third Principle: When the Six Granaries are murky and dismal black, death within a single year.
The Six Granaries are the Heavenly Granaries, Earthly Granaries, and both Cheekbones. Dark, murky, and dismal; lips a dreadful black — one's vital qi already insufficient, and blood already withered — how can one attain life? ☠️
Twenty-Fourth Principle: When the ear rims are black and the nose tip is red, beware of encountering spring.
When ears are black and withered, qi and blood are insufficient; when the nose is red like mud, blood does not moisten. Should one see this vital color in spring, death is certain. ⚠️
Twenty-Fifth Principle: White color is taboo like powder; red color is taboo like a pearl.
White-powder hue and red-pearl hue are most taboo for their extreme brightness. Should white appear as applied powder and red as glossy pearls, this rules overturning the family and losing life, harm from penalties and inevitable death. ❌
Twenty-Sixth Principle: The Sun-Moon Horns also harbor the taboo of blue-green, white, black, and dark.
This is the Parent Palace, most taboo of all blue-green, white, black, and darkness — each responds to the omen of parent's death. It favors only yellow brightness. White rules harm through injury; black rules severe illness; red rules punishment and harm. Blue-green darkness rules disaster and ailment. 👨👩👧
Twenty-Seventh Principle: The Base of the Nose (Shangen) favors red, white, yellow, and brightness.
The Root of the Nose is where the foundation (root) lies; it favors white-bright, red-yellow, bright, and moist, ruling lack of ruin. Dark stagnation, blue-green-red darkness, and withered dryness are the colors of great ruin and wandering drift. 🏔
Twenty-Ninth Principle: Within the Luoji (Eyebrow regions), whitening and moisture are favored — be wary of seeing smoke-like haze.
The vital color within the brows should favor brightness and moisture, and dark stagnation resembling mist is taboo. 👁
Thirtieth Principle: The Heavenly Granary most favors giving harm to dark dreariness, whereas the Earthly Granary darkened/stagnant is harmless.
The Heavenly Granary favors yellow and brightness; redness and darkness are taboo. Red darkness at the Earthly Granary being present might cause no harm — for calamity stemming from spring reveals clearly, whereas only in autumn/winter might one contrive no difference. ⚡
Thirty-First Principle: At the Border Regions and Xuanbi, should color resemble black pearls, fear encountering disaster of flying calamity.
On the Border Regions, what does not commonly portend to occur includes redness like pearl, black like ink, yellow like mud, and filminess like smoke. These several phenomena all being essential powerful inauspicious colors. May each of these invoke patterns recognized by physiognomy. ⚠️
Thirty-Second Principle: When the Border Regions are bright as well as obvious in brightness in mouth corners, death is likewise either supported simultaneously.
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The art of facial vital qi and color comprises a total of two hundred and forty-four methods. Only by mastering these principles can one be considered truly initiated. 🌈
The correspondence between the five colors and time/space is as follows: Blue-green 🌱 externally corresponds to the Heavenly Stems Jia and Yi (Eastern Wood), and internally corresponds to Mao (the proper position of Wood); white ⚪ with a bright, moist quality arises during Ren Gui Hai Zi (the time of Northern Water's vigor); if white is tinged with yellow and bright-moist, it corresponds to Shen You (the time of Western Metal's vigor); hair-color (extremely faint color) corresponds within seven months; black qi ⚫ corresponds within one month; yellow 🟡 corresponds to Wu Ji (Central Earth); if yellow is tinged with stagnation, it corresponds to Chen Xu Chou Wei (the months of Earth's vigor in the four seasons); red 🔴 corresponds to Bing Ding (Southern Fire); purple 🟣 manifests on Si Wu days when Fire is vigorous; light red manifests on days when Fire is vigorous, while heavy red manifests on days when Water is vigorous.
Travel direction formula: Those with heavy Water-color should travel south 🔥; those with heavy Fire-color should travel north 💧; blue-green suits traveling east 🌱; white suits traveling west ⚪; those with heavy red should travel far beyond a thousand li to avert disaster; those with heavy black should remain still rather than travel abroad; those with yellow bright-moist may gain wealth traveling south. ✨
For travel, one observes only the brightness or darkness of the Auspicious Horse (Yima) position: only with yellow and bright color may one seek wealth; dark and stagnant color means one will encounter fright on the journey; black and red color attacking the life-force portends danger of overturning disaster. If the Yima or the Gate of Life (Mingmen) is dark, one should not travel; if the Gate of Life is bright and the Yintang (between the brows) is open, even marching to war holds no fear. If the Lower Granary (Xiaku) is dark, beware of slander from petty people; if the Heavenly Granary (Tiancang) is moist, one will encounter noble patrons' support and gain wealth and joy on the journey; one must observe whether the Border Regions (Biandi) are bright to determine fortune or misfortune.
Second Principle: Black encircling the Sun (Taiyang), blue-green obscuring the mouth corners — the ancient method for judging death, requiring careful discernment.
Third Principle: Heavenly Broadness and Forehead Corners (the face comprises twenty-six regions total).
The Sun-Moon Horns and areas before the ear gates should not have blue-green dark stagnation. The ancient text says: "When yellow qi issues forth from the High-Broad region, within ten days one is promoted; when blue-green reaches the Gate of Life, within half a year one's longevity is diminished." The Sun-Moon Horns connect to the Heavenly Broadness region — they should favor bright yellow and avoid blue-green darkness. ⚡
Fourth Principle: The three regions of Yintang, Nianshou, and Zhuntou most taboo red, dark, and blue-green.
These three regions govern one's entire life and are the root of existence; therefore physiognomy begins with these three regions as primary. 🔥
Fifth Principle: Vital qi one moment bright, one moment dark, one moment glowing, one moment opening — this is not an auspicious omen.
All vital qi should properly be stable in a single color, not flickering between brightness and darkness with uncertainty. Though one may temporarily gain new bright color, it is no blessing — fear that excessive vigor may breed calamity. Therefore when dark color has just begun to open, one must not hastily judge it as auspicious. ⚠️
Sixth Principle: All five colors present together is called "Miscellaneous Flowers" (Zahua).
Colors should properly be only two or three in compatible combination, and one must still examine the relationships of generation, support, overcoming, and restraint. For example, if red is scarce, the presence of blue-green is not taboo (Wood generates Fire 🔥); if yellow is scarce, the presence of red is beneficial (Fire generates Earth 🟡). Those that invoke mutual generation are good; those that invoke mutual overcoming are inauspicious. When all five colors are complete and chaotically spread across the entire face, this is called "Miscellaneous Flowers" — if one undertakes no enterprise or seeks no wealth, then fine; but upon founding any undertaking, ruin will follow. The text says: "Blue-green and yellow are not taboo with red and white; when they spread horizontally across the entire face, it rules the breaking of the family and separation of loved ones." 🌪
Seventh Principle: When color issues at the Three Yang, responses come swiftly.
Taiyang (Sun), Mingmen (Gate of Life), and Zhuntou (Nose Tip) are the Three Yang on the face. If vital color manifests at these Three Yang regions, verification will be swift as spirit. It is also said: "When the Three Yang are bright and vigorous, wealth comes naturally from heaven." 💰
Eighth Principle: Qi is born within the skin; it completes only after a hundred days.
All vital qi originates deep within the flesh, and only after one hundred days does it issue forth upon the epidermis as visible color, whereupon it can verify fortune or misfortune. While vital qi is yet unsettled, good qi must not be immediately pronounced auspicious, nor stagnant qi immediately pronounced inauspicious. One must first discern the relationship between qi and blood — qi is the vanguard of blood; qi moves and then color is born; only when color has settled can fortune be judged. 🌱
Ninth Principle: Upon first glance it appears vivid but upon prolonged viewing it disperses of itself — difficult to pronounce wealth or blessing.
Where vital qi first appears dazzlingly bright but disperses and fails to concentrate upon prolonged viewing, though it be a joyful color, it will not verify. ❌
Tenth Principle: Upon first glance it appears murky, but upon prolonged viewing it becomes bright and moist — this invariably brings blessing, longevity, and robust health.
Where vital qi first appears hazy and indistinct, but upon prolonged viewing bright moisture penetrates through, this is true color from within the skin and within the membrane, precisely the sign of solid roots. With roots already firm, why worry that branches and leaves will not flourish? This is the omen of issuing fortune and obtaining wealth. ✅
Eleventh Principle: When an elder's color is overly fresh-delicate, it rules harming wife and opposing children, and a life of toil.
For those above fifty, vital qi should not be overly fresh-delicate (this is instead a sign of emptiness and instability), ruling harm to wife and children through opposition, weariness, and hard toil. Youth around twenty should likewise not have floating brightness (surface bright but inner empty), which rules ruin. ⚠️
Twelfth Principle: When the Progeny Palace (Lunkuo) and Gate of Life are dark, and brow-tips and Xuazhen (Mysterious Pearl) are blue-green, seek neither fame nor profit.
The ear is the Outer Study Hall, should not be dark and stagnant, and most favors bright freshness. It is also said: "When literature stagnates, one's books turn to naught" — one whose brow corners grow blue-green color and whose Gate of Life is not open is ultimately but a poor scholar. The former text says: "When the ears are whiter than the face, one becomes famed throughout court and countryside." Once the ear rim is dark, one's literature scatters and one's books are empty — certainly a person without talent or learning. 📚
Thirteenth Principle: Palms red at center, knuckles moist — with broad learning and extensive inquiry, how could one fail to ascend to the clouds?
Wherever the palm center is red and moist and the knuckles are pure white, this is the fortunate physiognomy of the Study Hall — how could one fail to achieve eminence and ascend to the clouds? 🎓
Fourteenth Principle: Inside like white powder, outside bright and glossy — though one may prosper, it lasts not beyond one year.
Where the inner vital color resembles dried bone or white powder, though the exterior be vivid and bright, though one may rise, this lasts no more than a year and in the end returns to poverty. ❌
Fifteenth Principle: When the inner color is thoroughly infused with blood yet the exterior resembles darkness, one passes through a full year.
When the inner vital energy is sufficient and the exterior color has not yet opened, one must wait one year until blood is sufficient and vital energy vigorous, whereupon it will naturally open. When the interior and exterior are transparent and luminous, with light and radiance and completeness of blessing and emolument. ✅
Sixteenth Principle: When qi is sufficient and color is sufficient but spirit is not sufficient, it is difficult to pronounce blessing and emolument.
All vital color is the sprout of spirit (shen). If spirit is not vigorous, then despite possessing vital color, one cannot prosper; even if prospering, one finds it difficult to live long. For youth to prosper requires spirit, qi, and color all complete; for elders to flourish requires blood, skin, and moisture all excellent. Only when spirit, vital energy, and color are all present is there utility. All elder physiognomy requires blood vigor and the scalp fully moist to be flourishing; if the skin is withered and the blood weak, death follows. ☠️
Seventeenth Principle: In general, vital qi is observed as a whole body.
Vital qi originates from the head, face, limbs, body, lower back, and abdomen — it must be observed within totality. If even one area is not vigorous, one cannot expect longevity; one must not look only at individual palaces and regions. 🌍
Eighteenth Principle: In refined observation of color, examine down to the minutest hair.
In all examination of color, one must attain exact detail at each individual palace, observing every hair and division clearly — only then is there utility. Those who observe in overarching general terms will often find no verification. 🔍
Nineteenth Principle: Both cheekbones flushed with red, the Four Granaries bright — family wealth increases daily.
Cheekbones red and moist, the Heavenly Granary and Earthly Granary bright — one's source of wealth steadily advances. Great prosperity can accordingly be known. The song says: "Both cheekbones spouting fire, eyes like stars" — precisely this description. 💰
Twentieth Principle: When the Five Stars possess proper colors and forms excellence, eminence ascends upon the road to clouds.
This is called the Five Stars possessing proper colors. With such vital coloring, success in public office or commerce naturally yields profit. ✨
Twenty-First Principle: When the Four Cardinal Regions reveal yellow light, how could one fail to prosper?
The Four Cardinals are the Yintang, Zhuntou, and both Cheekbones. When yellow-bright color appears at the Four Cardinals, this rules the omen of establishing the family, founding a career, and setting the foundations of enterprises and estates. 🏠
Twenty-Second Principle: When the Six Positions are dark, they destroy; when bright yellow, they gather.
The Six Positions are the Three Yang and Three Yin. Above the eyes is also called the Dragon Palace. It will be harmed by blue-green darkness, favors yellow brightness; harmed by dryness, favors red moisture. The ancients say: "When the Dragon Palace is withered and sunken, one gains no children by fate" — precisely this saying. 👨👩👧
Twenty-Third Principle: When the Six Granaries are murky and dismal black, death within a single year.
The Six Granaries are the Heavenly Granaries, Earthly Granaries, and both Cheekbones. Dark, murky, and dismal; lips a dreadful black — one's vital qi already insufficient, and blood already withered — how can one attain life? ☠️
Twenty-Fourth Principle: When the ear rims are black and the nose tip is red, beware of encountering spring.
When ears are black and withered, qi and blood are insufficient; when the nose is red like mud, blood does not moisten. Should one see this vital color in spring, death is certain. ⚠️
Twenty-Fifth Principle: White color is taboo like powder; red color is taboo like a pearl.
White-powder hue and red-pearl hue are most taboo for their extreme brightness. Should white appear as applied powder and red as glossy pearls, this rules overturning the family and losing life, harm from penalties and inevitable death. ❌
Twenty-Sixth Principle: The Sun-Moon Horns also harbor the taboo of blue-green, white, black, and dark.
This is the Parent Palace, most taboo of all blue-green, white, black, and darkness — each responds to the omen of parent's death. It favors only yellow brightness. White rules harm through injury; black rules severe illness; red rules punishment and harm. Blue-green darkness rules disaster and ailment. 👨👩👧
Twenty-Seventh Principle: The Base of the Nose (Shangen) favors red, white, yellow, and brightness.
The Root of the Nose is where the foundation (root) lies; it favors white-bright, red-yellow, bright, and moist, ruling lack of ruin. Dark stagnation, blue-green-red darkness, and withered dryness are the colors of great ruin and wandering drift. 🏔
Twenty-Ninth Principle: Within the Luoji (Eyebrow regions), whitening and moisture are favored — be wary of seeing smoke-like haze.
The vital color within the brows should favor brightness and moisture, and dark stagnation resembling mist is taboo. 👁
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Article 55: The Ren Zhong (philtrum) bordering the Fa Ling, along with the two granaries of Food and Salary, must not be coarse and dull.
The Ren Zhong governs age 51, the Immortal Granary governs 52 and 53, the Food Granary governs 54, the Salary Granary governs 55, and the Fa Ling governs 56 and 57. The area beside the Ren Zhong on the upper lip is the Immortal Granary; the granaries beyond the mouth corners are the Food and Salary Granaries; further outward is the Fa Ling. This is the region of the Water Star, and here coarseness and dullness are strictly forbidden. It is most favorable to be clear and moist. White spots forming here are also unfavorable. Yellow color emerging in the elderly indicates illness; in the young, it is of no concern; in middle age, it is unfavorable. At 54, one enters the twilight limit at the Granary, governing 13 years of affairs. 💧
Article 56: Red and purple within the Teng She (big wrinkle) are blessings; white is a disaster.
This examines the deep wrinkle color within the Teng She. All elderly people possess this wrinkle. If red or purple appears within the wrinkle, indicating vigorous blood, it brings blessings and longevity; if blue or black, it indicates illness and disaster. This complexion should only be observed deep within the wrinkle, not outside of it. Outside the wrinkle, yellow and clear brightness are favorable. Generally, purple or red within the wrinkle is fine, while black and white are also without harm. 🐍
Article 57: The Gui Lai and Hu Er connecting to Slaves and Servants are named the Lower Granaries. What harm if they are yellow and dull?
Ages 58 and 59 are governed by this. These three locations are the Lower Granaries on each side. If a dull color appears, it is not considered inauspicious. 👂
Article 58: Within the lips of the Water Star, dull black and blue are taboo. Age 60 governs this.
Regardless of age, the Water Star is favorably suited to be clear, red, or purple. For women, white is taboo; for men, blue and red are taboo. 👄
Article 59: If the color within the Cheng Jiang (chin crease area) is black, it's death; white, survival; yellow, death; blue, illness. Age 61 governs this.
Before and after age 50, the area within the Cheng Jiang is favorable when white or red. Should a black color manifest in youth, it indicates death by drowning. 💧
Article 60: The sides of the Di Ge (chin) are the Earth Granaries. If uniformly white, the family's fortunes will flourish. Ages 62 and 63 govern this.
The sides of the chin are the Earth Granaries; whiteness is considered excellent, applicable to all ages. Darkness here indicates disaster. 🏠
Article 61: The Bei Chi, E Ya, and Jin Lü correspond to the Zi and Hai Palaces. They are located in the Water position. Whiteness like pearls and jade is auspicious.*
Bei Chi governs age 64, E Ya governs 65, Jin Lü governs ages 66 and 67. These Zi and Hai Palaces favor white colors. There are two ways to view this: if the color emanates like jade or pearls, with brightness and luster, it is excellent; white like dry bone is a disaster, and death is inevitable. 💧
Article 62: The center of the Di Ge is the Di Ge proper. It is suitable to be white or red. If black emerges, disaster arrives immediately. Ages 68, 69, and 70 govern this.
An even white color is considered good here. Red indicates significant misfortune. If black appears, it is an omen of death by which count is sealed. ☠️
*Article 63: The color of the Song Tang¹ is, for the elderly, best when moist.Dull dryness is taboo, and watery black is disliked in youth. From age 71, this provides oversight of affairs.
Areas that can be touched with the tongue are Song Tang; those that cannot are the Zi and Hai Palaces. The color should be moist, for dry is feared. 👅
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