邪氣化度简体邪气化度

xié qì huà dù

A measure of evil-qi transformation · xie qi hua du

Also rendered: A measure of evil-qi transformation (this site; 度 as the table's own reckoning) · An evil-qi transformation measure (tighter, and it makes the evil qi sound like a unit of measurement)

Cosmology

Reviewed · 2026-10-14

At a glance

Pinyin: xié qì huà dù
Simplified: 邪气化度
Literal: The reckoning of a year whose transformation was not its own. 邪 qi off its line, 氣 qi, 化 transformation, 度 measure. The word stands at the end of the same run of numbers as 正化度, and separates from it only by the first graph: where the qi did its own work the measure is upright, where prevalence and revenge decided it the measure is evil.
Shuowen: **「邪氣化度」本篇9見，皆在六十甲子表**；**此九組亦皆以「勝復同」為由，與邪氣化日同因，而結語作度不作日**；**「度」本篇29見，然多為「其數」「以度」之度，作結語者止此九見與正化度十九見**

In brief

Nine of the sixty years end 邪氣化度也: 丁丑、丁未歲。上太陰土，中少角木運，下太陽水，清化熱化勝，復同，邪氣化度也. Each of the nine carries 勝復同 in the sentence before it, exactly as the six 邪氣化日-rows do; the difference between the two groups is only the word the table chooses to close them with. Taken with the 十九 upright measures, the four verdicts between them close forty-five of the sixty years, which is why the chapter can end its table with 勝復正化，皆有常數，不可不察.

Senses in the classical corpus

The verdict 邪氣化度

勝復同而其數不正

邪氣化度也 — Suwen 71

Its cause 勝復同

與邪氣化日同因

清化熱化勝，復同 — Suwen 71

Its opposite 正化度

一正一邪，其數相對

正化度也 — Suwen 71

Its reckoning 以其化數

上中下三氣之數並列

清化熱化 — Suwen 71

Its companions 災某宫

每組皆記災宫與藥食

災三宫 — Suwen 71

Its sum 皆有常數

與正化同為定期之紀

皆有常數，不可不察 — Suwen 71

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

丁丑、丁未歲。上太陰土，中少角木運，下太陽水，清化熱化勝，復同，邪氣化度也。災三宫，雨化五，風化三，寒化一，正化度也。其化上苦温，中辛温，下甘熱，藥食宜也。丁丑、丁未岁。上太阴土，中少角木运，下太阳水，清化热化胜，复同，邪气化度也。灾三宫，雨化五，风化三，寒化一，正化度也。其化上苦温，中辛温，下甘热，药食宜也。

Dīng chǒu, dīng wèi suì. Shàng tài yīn tǔ, zhōng shào jué mù yùn, xià tài yáng shuǐ, qīng huà rè huà shèng, fù tóng, xié qì huà dù yě. Zāi sān gōng, yǔ huà wǔ, fēng huà sān, hán huà yī, zhèng huà dù yě. Qí huà shàng kǔ wēn, zhōng xīn wēn, xià gān rè, yào shí yí yě.

In a ding chou or ding wei year: greater yin earth above, lesser jue wood circuit in the middle, greater yang water below. The prevalence and revenge of coolness transformation and heat transformation are alike — a measure of evil-qi transformation. The disaster falls in the third palace; rain transforms five, wind transforms three, cold transforms one — an upright transformation measure. As to what transforms it: bitter and warm above, pungent and warm in the middle, sweet and hot below — what is fitting in drugs and food.

**「邪氣化度」本篇9見，此段有其1**；**此段為丁丑、丁未之歲：上太陰土，中少角木運，下太陽水，清化熱化勝，復同**；**下文即以災三宫與藥食宜收之，與正化度之組同式**

Compounds built on this term

邪氣化日

xié qì huà rì

a day of evil-qi transformation

本篇6見；以日言者六見，以度言者九見

正化度

zhèng huà dù

an upright transformation measure

本篇19見；與此相對

勝復

shèng fù

prevalence and revenge

本篇29見；邪化之因

藥食宜

yào shí yí

what is fitting in medicine and food

本篇30見；邪化之組亦以藥食收之

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This site	a measure of evil-qi transformation	nine years get it, and the rendering keeps the counting it names
Literal	evil-qi transformation degree	exact and unusable
Gloss	a year whose transformation, reckoned by its numbers, was decided by prevalence and revenge	right, and too long for a table

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