Mei Hua · Time-Based Casting

Turn the hour into numbers — one cast, one hexagram

Write down your question and pick a cast time — code casts by the year-month-day-hour method of Mei Hua Yi Shu: host and guest, nuclear and changed hexagrams, all laid out at once. Interpretations are AI-generated, for entertainment only.

Why it is called Plum BlossomWatching the Plum

Legend has it that Shao Yong (Shao Kangjie) of the Northern Song was admiring plum blossoms one winter day when two sparrows fought over a branch and fell to the ground. Moved, he cast a hexagram from the year, month, day and hour:

Year Chen 5 + 12th month 12 + 17th day 17 = 34; 34 ÷ 8 leaves 2 — upper trigram Dui (Lake);
add the Shen hour 9 = 43; 43 ÷ 8 leaves 3 — lower trigram Li (Fire); 43 ÷ 6 leaves 1 — the first line moves;
the result: Ge (Revolution), changing to Xian (Influence).

As the story goes, he foretold that the next evening a girl would come to pick plum blossoms, be chased off by the gardener, and fall and hurt her thigh — and the tale says it happened just so. The method took the name Plum Blossom. (A traditional anecdote, shared as cultural history.)

A traditional tale, shared for its history. This page casts with exactly these year-month-day-hour numbers.

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Year, month, and day follow the lunar calendar (the year turns on the first day of the first month; leap months count as their own month). Hours use the earthly-branch hours, with the Zi hour running 23:00–00:59. Trigrams divide by eight, lines by six — a zero remainder counts as 8/6. Enter your local time.