Wǔ Huáng

Five Yellow (五黃, wǔ huáng) is the star of the center. The eight others take a trigram and a compass direction, and this one takes the middle of the square. In a separate use of the number, the birth-palace count of the Ming house book 陽宅十書 sends a man's 5 to 坤 and a woman's to 艮. The Dunjia Classic names it by its palace and gives it no gate. Its star name is 廉貞.

The same name 廉貞 is the star of the 五鬼 position in the Eight Mansions list, though the two schemes are used apart. 協紀辨方書 卷六 mentions Five Yellow only when it explains the customary avoided days on the 5th, 14th and 23rd of the month. The editors accept the center-palace number there and call the fire-feeds-earth reasoning built on 廉貞 unbelievable.

In the worked chart of 1684, Five Yellow stood in 離, the south palace. Modern writing gives this star a strong reputation, and we did not find that reputation spelled out in the older books we could read.