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For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Bing (丙, Yang Fire) is Eating God. The category follows the produced-by direction plus polarity; it is not evidence of appetite, talent, or health.
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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗
Name, translation and provenance
Shíshén 食神, literally ‘food/eat spirit/deity’.
‘Eating God’ is a literal-style English label. The historical reason for this conventional name is not established here.
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Mingli Tanyuan 命理探源 ↗Vin Leo (2004) · Searching for the Gods, Joey Yap ↗
Word origin · etymology
Shíshén 食神, literally ‘food/eat spirit/deity’.
‘Eating God’ is a literal-style English label. The historical reason for this conventional name is not established here.
How we know · epistemology
Relational classification
For Jia (甲, Yang Wood), Bing (丙, Yang Fire) is Eating God. The category follows the produced-by direction plus polarity; it is not evidence of appetite, talent, or health.
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