Xu Zhimo
Xu Zhimo
Crescent Moon School Poet
1897-01-15（22nd year of the Guangxu reign (Qing), 12th lunar month, day 13）～ 1931-11-19
Born in Haining, Zhejiang
Three-Pillar ChartBirth hour unknown — three pillars only
Year Pillar
丙申
Element Fire · Metal
NaYin Foot-of-Mountain Fire
Ten Gods Direct Wealth
Month Pillar
辛丑
Element Metal · Earth
NaYin Wall Earth
Ten Gods Indirect Resource
Day Pillar
癸酉
Element Water · Metal
NaYin Sword-Edge Metal
Ten Gods Day Master
Hour Pillar
？？
Hour unknown
Not cast
Day Master
癸Water
Element distribution (three-pillar count)
Metal 3, Fire 1, Earth 1, Water 1, Wood 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
Gui (癸) Water is the Water of rain and dew, signifying grace and romance, with Direct Wealth and Indirect Resource revealed in the year and month and Metal strong three times over. Looking back on the life of Xu Zhimo, poet of the Crescent Moon school: “Softly I am leaving, just as softly as I came,” and the romance of his Cambridge years mirror “Metal generating abundant Water,” overflowing talent and feeling. Indirect Resource signifies his exploration of metrical form in modern Chinese poetry.
Much Metal muddies the Water; his romantic turmoil and his death in a plane crash in 1931, at only thirty-four, can be observed in hindsight through the structure of “cold Metal, chilly Water.” Yet the grace of Gui Water has passed into the lifeblood of modern Chinese poetry, a footnote to “the water gone, its ripples remain.”
This is a cultural retrospective at the level of three pillars, not a fatalistic judgment.
Birth date source:Chinese Wikipedia: “Xu Zhimo”(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.