審平简体审平

shěn píng

Even Judgement · shen ping

Also rendered: Even Judgement (this site; 審 is examining to the bottom and 平 is the even hand, and the chapter's own words for it are 不爭 and 無犯) · Shen ping (transliteration; how the name appears in tables of the fifteen circuits)

Cosmology

Reviewed · 2026-10-13

At a glance

Pinyin: shěn píng
Simplified: 审平
Literal: 審 shěn — to weigh, to examine to the bottom (《說文》: 審，悉也; 从宀从釆，釆者辨別也); 平 píng — level, even, and in judgement the even hand. 審平 is metal at its even: it reaps and it kills, but it weighs first, and the chapter puts the whole of the name into six words — 收而不爭，殺而無犯, it gathers without contending and kills without offence. It is the only one of the five even names that is a judgement rather than a condition.
Shuowen: **「審平」本篇2見：一在「金曰審平」，一在「審平之紀」**；**《說文》：審，悉也；平，語平舒也**；**「收而不爭」本篇1見、「殺而無犯」本篇1見，皆審平之紀之文**；**「五化宣明」本篇1見，唯此段有**；**「其藏肺」本篇3見，「其數九」本篇1見**

In brief

Metal in its even state, and the one of the five named for a judgement. 金曰審平 — metal is called even judgement — and its 紀 runs: 審平之紀，收而不爭，殺而無犯，五化宣明，其氣潔，其性剛，其用散落，其化堅斂，其類金，其政勁肅，其候清切，其令燥，其藏肺，肺其畏熱，其主鼻，其榖稻，其果桃，其實殻，其應秋，其蟲介，其畜雞，其色白，其養皮毛，其病欬，其味辛，其音商，其物外堅，其數九. Metal’s work is the autumn’s: it gathers in and it cuts down. The chapter says what makes that even — 收而不爭，殺而無犯 — and the two words are the whole ethic of the autumn: the reaping takes what is due and does not strive for more, the killing falls where it must and nothing is injured beyond it. Its five transformations come out 宣明, spread and clear, and its qi is 潔, clean. Its viscus is the lung, its creature the shelled, its number nine; when it fails it is 從革, following change, and when it goes too far 堅成, hard completion.

Senses in the classical corpus

The graph 審平

審者悉也，平者均也

金曰審平 — Suwen 70

Its phase 金之平氣

收而不爭，殺而無犯

審平之紀，收而不爭 — Suwen 70

Its five transformations 五化宣明

五化皆宣而明

五化宣明 — Suwen 70

Its qi and nature 其氣潔，其性剛

金氣潔而性剛，剛而不暴

其氣潔，其性剛 — Suwen 70

Its season and number 其應秋，其數九

秋為金，九為金之成數

其應秋 / 其數九 — Suwen 70

Its two failures 從革、堅成

不及曰從革，太過曰堅成

金曰從革 / 金曰堅成 — Suwen 70

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Suwen 70 Suwen 70 · 五常政大論 Read in context →

審平之紀，收而不爭，殺而無犯，五化宣明。其氣潔，其性剛，其用散落，其化堅斂，其類金，其政勁肅，其候清切，其令燥，其藏肺，肺其畏熱，其主鼻，其榖稻，其果桃，其實殻，其應秋，其蟲介，其畜雞，其色白，其養皮毛，其病欬，其味辛，其音商，其物外堅，其數九。审平之纪，收而不争，杀而无犯，五化宣明。其气洁，其性刚，其用散落，其化坚敛，其类金，其政劲肃，其候清切，其令燥，其藏肺，肺其畏热，其主鼻，其谷稻，其果桃，其实壳，其应秋，其虫介，其畜鸡，其色白，其养皮毛，其病咳，其味辛，其音商，其物外坚，其数九。

Shěn píng zhī jì, shōu ér bù zhēng, shā ér wú fàn, wǔ huà xuān míng. Qí qì jié, qí xìng gāng, qí yòng sàn luò, qí huà jiān liǎn, qí lèi jīn, qí zhèng jìng sù, qí hòu qīng qiè, qí lìng zào, qí zàng fèi, fèi qí wèi rè, qí zhǔ bí, qí gǔ dào, qí guǒ táo, qí shí qiào, qí yìng qiū, qí chóng jiè, qí chù jī, qí sè bái, qí yǎng pí máo, qí bìng kài, qí wèi xīn, qí yīn shāng, qí wù wài jiān, qí shù jiǔ.

In the era of Even Judgement it gathers without contending and slays without offending, and the five transformations are displayed clearly. Its qi clean, its nature hard, its use scattering and dropping, its transformation firm gathering, its class metal, its governance strong and severe, its climate clear and sharp, its command dryness, its viscus the lung; the lung fears heat; it governs the nose; its grain rice, its fruit the peach, its kernel the husk, its answering autumn, its creature the shelled, its domestic animal the fowl, its colour white, its nourishment skin and body hair, its illness cough, its flavour acrid, its note shang, its thing hard without, its number nine.

**「審平」本篇2見：一在「金曰審平」，一在「審平之紀」**；**此段以「收而不爭，殺而無犯」立金之平，為五平紀中最似斷語者**；**「五化宣明」本篇1見，唯此段有**；**此段末「其病欬」與次段「其病厥」、前段「其病否」同式**

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從革

cóng gé

following change

本篇2見；金不及之名，其紀曰折收

堅成

jiān chéng

hard completion

本篇2見；金太過之名，其紀曰收引

其藏肺

qí zàng fèi

its viscus the lung

本篇3見

其數九

qí shù jiǔ

its number nine

本篇1見；金之成數

How it has been translated

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

This site	even judgement	the reaping weighed and the killing exact; the rendering keeps the judgement, which 不爭 and 無犯 spell out
Transliteration	shen ping	right about the referent, and it says nothing about weighing or evenness
Descriptive	metal in its even state	exact, and it drops the only one of the five names that is properly an act

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