Creating your first Bazi chart

A Bazi chart needs three things: date of birth, time of birth, and place of birth. Accurate time matters — the hour pillar changes every two hours, which can completely flip the chart.

Step by step

1. From the dashboard, click New Chart.
2. Enter the subject's name (yours or someone else's — you can create multiple charts).
3. Pick the date of birth.
4. Pick the time of birth. If you only know "afternoon" or "morning," make a best guess and note it — you can regenerate the chart later with a corrected time.
5. Enter the place of birth. MingAI converts this to True Solar Time so the hour pillar lands on the correct 地支.
6. Submit.

What the chart shows

A freshly-generated chart displays:

• Four Pillars (年月日时 — Year, Month, Day, Hour) with heavenly stem and earthly branch for each. The Day Master is the stem of the Day pillar — it represents you.
• Ten Gods above each stem — relationships between other stems and your Day Master (e.g. 正官, 七杀, 比肩).
• Hidden stems inside each earthly branch.
• Interactions — clashes (冲), combinations (合), harms (害), punishments (刑) — rendered as a visual diagram below the pillars.
• Da Yun — ten-year luck cycles.
• Liu Nian — annual pillars for the upcoming years.

Reading order

If you're new to Bazi, read in this order: Day Master → elemental balance → Ten Gods → interactions → Da Yun/Liu Nian. Each layer adds context to the previous one. Reading the four pillars walks through a worked example.