Shēng Qì

生氣 (shēng qì, literally generating breath) is the first of three favorable stars in the Ming house book 陽宅十書. The book gives it the star name 貪狼 and the element wood. 延年 and 天乙 follow it in that list.

Its place in the 大遊年 scheme is easy to describe. The scheme is eight verse lines, one per palace, and each line hands the seven other names to the seven other palaces. 生氣 always joins palaces in pairs: 乾 and 兌, 坎 and 巽, 震 and 離, 坤 and 艮. Both palaces of every pair sit in the same group of four, which is our reading of the verses and not a sentence in the book.

The book speaks well of it. A verse on the nine stars says 生氣 and 延年 bring good omens, and another passage says a year when the householder's age count reaches 生氣 brings people, sheep, horses and wealth. These are the book's own claims, not forecasts from this site, and questions about money belong with a qualified person. It also ties the star to years of the branches 亥, 卯 and 未 in the calendar's count of twelve. The name 貪狼 appears again as number one in the nine-star list, a separate use that the star page for One White covers.