邪氣化日简体邪气化日

xié qì huà rì

A day of evil-qi transformation · xie qi hua ri

Also rendered: A day of evil-qi transformation (this site; 邪 kept as the moral and medical word it is in this chapter) · A day of noxious-qi transformation (accurate about harm; 邪 here judges the transformation, not the harm done)

Cosmology

Reviewed · 2026-10-14

At a glance

Pinyin: xié qì huà rì
Simplified: 邪气化日
Literal: 邪 xié — what is not upright, off its proper line (《說文》作衺: 衺，𩆍也), hence in medicine the qi that does harm; 氣 qì — qi; 化 huà — transformation; 日 — the reckoning. A day of evil-qi transformation: the year's transformation was done by a qi that should not have been doing it, because one side prevailed and the other took revenge.
Shuowen: **《說文》：衺，𩆍也，今通作邪**。**「邪氣化日」本篇6見，皆在六十甲子表**；**凡此六組，其上中下三氣必有一勝一復，故曰勝復同**；**「邪」本篇23見，「氣」本篇241見，「化」306見**；**與「正化日」相對，正者其化自正，邪者其化為勝復所奪**

In brief

The verdict for a year in which one qi got the better of another and the other answered: 乙丑、乙未歲。上太陰土，中少商金運，下太陽水。熱化寒化，勝復同，所謂邪氣化日也. Six of the sixty years are so marked, and each is marked for the same reason — 勝復同, prevalence and revenge the same. The word is the chapter’s harshest: 邪 is the graph for qi that is off its line, and a year so judged is one in which the calendar’s own arithmetic shows the year doing something other than what its qi was charged to do. It is the 變 of 六化六變 written into a single year.

Senses in the classical corpus

The verdict 邪氣化日

勝復同則其化不正

所謂邪氣化日也 — Suwen 71

Its cause 勝復同

一勝一復，其化相奪

熱化寒化，勝復同 — Suwen 71

Its opposite 正化日

無所勝復者為正

正化日也 — Suwen 71

Its reckoning 邪氣化度

以度言之，其義不異

邪氣化度也 — Suwen 71

Its palace 災某宫

邪化之年，災有定宫

災七宫 — Suwen 71

Its remedy 藥食宜

每組之末即以藥食救之

所謂藥食宜也 — Suwen 71

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Suwen 71 Suwen 71 · 六元正紀大論 Read in context →

乙丑、乙未歲。上太陰土，中少商金運，下太陽水。熱化寒化，勝復同，所謂邪氣化日也。災七宫，濕化五，清化四，寒化六，所謂正化日也。其化上苦熱，中酸和，下甘熱，所謂藥食宜也。乙丑、乙未岁。上太阴土，中少商金运，下太阳水。热化寒化，胜复同，所谓邪气化日也。灾七宫，湿化五，清化四，寒化六，所谓正化日也。其化上苦热，中酸和，下甘热，所谓药食宜也。

Yǐ chǒu, yǐ wèi suì. Shàng tài yīn tǔ, zhōng shào shāng jīn yùn, xià tài yáng shuǐ. Rè huà hán huà, shèng fù tóng, suǒ wèi xié qì huà rì yě. Zāi qī gōng, shī huà wǔ, qīng huà sì, hán huà liù, suǒ wèi zhèng huà rì yě. Qí huà shàng kǔ rè, zhōng suān hé, xià gān rè, suǒ wèi yào shí yí yě.

In a yi chou or yi wei year: greater yin earth above, lesser shang metal circuit in the middle, greater yang water below. Heat transforms and cold transforms, and the prevalence and revenge are alike — this is what is called a day of evil-qi transformation. The disaster falls in the seventh palace; dampness transforms five, coolness transforms four, cold transforms six — this is what is called an upright transformation day. As to what transforms it: bitter and hot above, sour and harmonious in the middle, sweet and hot below — this is what is fitting in drugs and food.

**「邪氣化日」本篇6見，此段有其1**；**此段為乙丑、乙未之歲：上太陰土，中少商金運，下太陽水，熱化寒化，勝復同**；**下文即記災七宫與正化之數，一組之内邪正並見**

Compounds built on this term

正化日

zhèng huà rì

an upright transformation day

本篇11見；與邪氣化日相對

邪氣化度

xié qì huà dù

a measure of evil-qi transformation

本篇9見；度者，此類之總計

勝復

shèng fù

prevalence and revenge

本篇29見；邪化之由，惟在勝復

災宫

zāi gōng

the palace of disaster

邪化之組皆記災宫，如災七宫

How it has been translated

Every rendering below is a decision about which reader is being addressed. There is no neutral option.

This site	a day of evil-qi transformation	邪 is the chapter's word for qi off its line, and the rendering keeps the judgement
Literal	evil-qi transformation day	exact, and it reads oddly in a table of years
Gloss	a year whose transformation was decided by prevalence and revenge	right, and unusable as a label

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