Zhang Ziyi — BaZi Chart Analysis

Born in Beijing on 9 February 1979, Zhang Ziyi is one of the iconic “Four Dan” actresses of mainland China. She entered the Central Academy of Drama in 1996 and made early screen appearances the same year. Her breakout role in Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home (1999) won her a major Best Actress award and set up her global success with Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).

The chart, as computed

Every pillar below is computed by this site's engine from the birth date on file, using the solar terms rather than the Gregorian month — so the Month pillar changes at the 節 boundary, not on the 1st. Nothing in this reading was written before the chart was computed.

Day Master: 丁 (Ding, yin Fire). The engine reads this chart's day master as very strong, in a 正印格 (Zheng Yin) structure — a chart organised around support, learning and backing.

No birth hour is on record for Zhang Ziyi. The hour pillar is therefore omitted rather than guessed, and nothing in this reading depends on it — no hour-branch relation, no luck-cycle direction, and no claim that would need the fourth pillar to stand up. Three pillars is a smaller chart, not a less accurate one.

What the ten gods put where

• Year stem — 食神 (Shi Shen): the output — expression, craft, ease of production.
• Month stem — 劫财 (Jie Cai): the rival — competition and shared resources.

Read the gods as positions rather than personalities. Each label describes the relationship between a stem and the Day Master, so it is chart-relative by construction: move the day master and every god in the chart changes. This is the reason a per-chart table beats any generic account of Ding.

Branch relations

The engine finds no branch interactions in this chart — no clash, harmony, trine or harm between any pair of branches. That is worth stating rather than passing over: it means the reading rests on the stems, the elements and their positions, with nothing amplifying or destabilising them from the branch layer.

Reading it

A very strong Ding Fire day master in a Zheng Yin structure, with Shi Shen on the year and Jie Cai on the month, and no branch relations at all. A very strong day master with印 support and no branch layer to complicate it is a chart with a great deal of unopposed energy and few structural outlets; classically the reading is about where the surplus is directed, since nothing in the chart directs it automatically.

What this page does not claim

This is interpretation of a computed configuration, and the boundary matters. Nothing above says the chart caused anything, and nothing above was reverse-engineered from what the subject is known to have done. Where the birth hour is not on record, the hour pillar is absent rather than estimated.

This is not a substitute for medical, financial or legal advice.

Work out your own chart

To compare this against your own chart, run it through the BaZi chart calculator — it uses the same solar-term boundaries as the table above. Definitions for anything unfamiliar are in the BaZi glossary, and the celebrity index lists the other charted figures.

Birth data as held on file: 1979-02-09, hour unknown. The birth-data source is cited on the Chinese edition of this page.