Zheng Chenggong
Zheng Chenggong
Late Ming–Early Qing Military Leader · Recovered Taiwan
1624-08-27（4th year of the Tianqi reign (Ming), 7th lunar month, day 14）～ 1662-06-23
Born in Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan
Three-Pillar ChartBirth hour unknown — three pillars only
Year Pillar
甲子
Element Wood · Water
NaYin Sea Metal
Ten Gods Indirect Resource
Month Pillar
壬申
Element Water · Metal
NaYin Sword-Edge Metal
Ten Gods Seven Killings
Day Pillar
丙寅
Element Fire · Wood
NaYin Furnace Fire
Ten Gods Day Master
Hour Pillar
？？
Hour unknown
Not cast
Day Master
丙Fire
Element distribution (three-pillar count)
Wood 2, Water 2, Fire 1, Metal 1, Earth 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
Bing (丙) Fire is the Fire of the sun, signifying openness and integrity, with Indirect Resource and Seven Killings revealed in the year and month. Looking back on Zheng Chenggong’s life devoted to “resisting the Qing and restoring the Ming”: Seven Killings signifies military office and the opening of new territory, and his recovery of Taiwan and expulsion of the Dutch mirror the martial prowess of “Killings.” Indirect Resource signifies unconventional intelligence, as seen in his maritime trade and his military farming colonies to sustain the army.
Wood and Water are both strong, and Water controls Fire. His early death at thirty-nine (he died of illness on Taiwan in the 16th year of the Yongli reign) can be observed in hindsight through the structure of “strong Water extinguishing Fire,” a great regret. Yet the light of Bing Fire did not go out: worship of him as the “Prince of Yanping” has continued for three hundred years, a footnote to the setting sun whose afterglow endures.
This is a cultural retrospective at the level of three pillars, not a fatalistic judgment.
Birth date source:Chinese Wikipedia: “Koxinga”(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.