Da Liu Ren

Da Liu Ren (大六壬, “the Great Six Ren”) is a Chinese oracle that answers a question from the exact moment it is asked. Nothing is thrown or drawn: the date and hour themselves are converted into a chart of two rotating plates, and the reading comes from where the twelve earthly branches land on each other. Together with Qi Men Dun Jia and Tai Yi, it is one of the San Shi (三式), the “three cosmic boards” of classical Chinese divination — and of the three it is the one most concerned with the human affairs behind a question: a lawsuit, a journey, a lost object, a match. This article explains what the system is, how a chart is built step by step, and how to read the first layer of one. If you only want a chart, the free Da Liu Ren calculator builds one for any moment.