How many liang does your birth weigh?

Bone weight is worked out on the lunar calendar. You can enter a Gregorian date and it will be converted; the lunar date used is shown on the result so you can check it. If you already know your lunar birthday, entering it directly is safest.

The heaviest values of the four tables never fall on the same birth, so the total can reach at most 7 liang 1 qian and 7 liang 2 qian cannot occur. Many sites still include a verse for it, generally thought to be a later addition. We do not treat it as a result; the text and the explanation are on the sources page.

The hour weighs anywhere from 6 qian to 1 liang 6 qian, so it changes the total and therefore the verse. Rather than guessing noon, check a birth record or ask family first; without the hour, treat the result loosely.

Not in that sense. Lighter totals tend to describe early hardship and self-reliance and heavier ones good fortune, but every verse is old writing, not a judgement of a person's life. The number is simply the sum of four table values.

Everyone gets the same verse; the main versions agree on this. One version also records a separate verse for women, which the Chinese pages show under a Female tab with a plain-language summary.

Bone weight adds up four table values and gives one verse in seconds, best read as a piece of folk culture. BaZi builds the four pillars and reads the balance of the five elements, the Ten Gods and the luck cycles to look at a person's structure and life stages. For a detailed look at yourself, cast a full BaZi chart.