Xu Beihong
Xu Beihong
Painter · Art Educator
1895-07-19（21st year of the Guangxu reign (Qing), summer month (as given in source), day 27）～ 1953-09-26
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu
Three-Pillar ChartBirth hour unknown — three pillars only
Year Pillar
乙未
Element Wood · Earth
NaYin Sand Metal
Ten Gods Indirect Resource
Month Pillar
癸未
Element Water · Earth
NaYin Willow Wood
Ten Gods Seven Killings
Day Pillar
丁卯
Element Fire · Wood
NaYin Furnace Fire
Ten Gods Day Master
Hour Pillar
？？
Hour unknown
Not cast
Day Master
丁Fire
Element distribution (three-pillar count)
Wood 2, Earth 2, Fire 1, Water 1, Metal 0
Chart computed by the MoZhu engine (lunar-javascript); without the hour pillar, luck pillars and yearly cycles can't fully unfold.
Case Review
Original writing · hindsight review · anchored in known history, viewed through chart structure
Ding (丁) Fire is the Fire of lamps and candles, signifying civilization and art education, with Indirect Resource and Seven Killings revealed in the year and month. Looking back on the life of Xu Beihong, “founder of modern Chinese art”: studying oil painting in France, returning to build art education (the Central Academy of Fine Arts), and exploring the “fusion of Chinese and Western” traditions mirror the unconventional path of Indirect Resource. Seven Killings signifies fighting spirit, as seen in his exhibitions to raise funds during the War of Resistance and the spirited energy of his Galloping Horse.
Wood generates Fire twice (Yimao 乙卯), giving life to his conviction of “painting for the motherland.” Heavy Earth drains Fire; his life spent rushing about on educational administration and his early death at fifty-eight can be observed in hindsight from the angle of “Fire drained by Earth, the lamp oil used up,” a matter of regret.
This is a cultural retrospective at the level of three pillars, not a fatalistic judgment.
Birth date source:Chinese Wikipedia: “Xu Beihong”(cross-checked with public records; bio is an original summary)
This case is for traditional-culture study only, not a judgment of any historical figure; schools of interpretation differ, and these conclusions claim no exclusive truth.