The English BaZi market has calculators in abundance and source texts almost nowhere. This is the source-text layer: each treatise given in its original Chinese, translated passage by passage, with the terminology fixed in advance and the interpretation separated from the text. Every page states exactly which chapter it covers and whether that chapter is complete.
Pianguan 偏官 / Qisha 七殺 — The Indirect Officer and the Seven Killings
Complete facing-page English translation of the 論偏官 (Pianguan / Qisha) treatise of Yuan Hai Zi Ping 淵海子平, including the rule that decides when a killer star is 偏官 and when it is 七殺…
淵海子平 · 論偏官 · 13 passages · 8 versesZhengguan 正官 — The Direct Officer
Complete facing-page English translation of the 正官論 (Zhengguan, Direct Officer) chapter of Yuan Hai Zi Ping 淵海子平, with term glossary, commentary on why an officer star is not autom…
淵海子平 · 正官論 · 16 passages · 7 versesThree things a calculator cannot give you, and a concept summary will not either: the exact wording a rule was stated in, the conditions attached to it, and the cases the original author used to test it. The Yuan Hai Zi Ping chapters published here are the working foundation of the whole 子平 system — they are read first because every later text assumes them. Translations are arranged by learning path rather than by volume order.
The underlying Chinese texts — 14 works, 230 chapters — are published separately and can be read alongside any translation here: 命理古籍专题. Each English page links back to the exact source file it was translated from.