Tai Sui and the Three Killings (太岁与三煞) in the classical texts
What the classics say
Verbatim passages retrieved from public-domain editions of the source texts. They are shown in the original Chinese; the gloss above is ours.
又，《历书》云：“应三白之方，修作不避大将军、太岁、大小耗。四利三元太阳【戌】太隂【子】龙徳【辰】福徳【午】开山立向修方凶太岁【酉】岁破【卯】三煞【寅卯辰】坐煞向煞【甲乙庚辛】浮天空亡【艮丙】开山凶年尅山家【二十四山并无克冬至后克干亥兑丁山】隂府太岁【坤坎】六害【戌】死符【寅】灸退【子】立向凶巡山罗防【辛】病符【申】修方Sources: 殆知阁 (Daizhige) corpus, Chinese Wikisource and transcribed editions; see the manifest for each book's provenance. Classical readings are cultural references, not predictions. Methods and review