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Peach Blossom (Tao Hua) — the Chinese astrology star 咸池（桃花）

The Peach Blossom is one of the 36 shen sha, anchored on the trine group (anchored on the year or day branch — both schools valid). Also called Xian Chi (the Bathing Pool), it sits on the four cardinal branches and marks charm and attraction. The table below is the complete lookup — every row links to the branch or pillar page so you can verify it — and the picker repeats the same engine data for whichever anchor you choose.

This page is generated by engine v0.14.0, not hand-written; the table was cross-checked against external sources and against its own derivation (see methodology R32).

Computed facts (engine-verified)

Star咸池（桃花） Tao Hua · Peach Blossom
Anchortrine group (anchored on the year or day branch — both schools valid)
Table rows4
Structurefour groups → exactly the four cardinal branches

Complete lookup table

AnchorResult
寅 Yin (Tiger) 午 Wu (Horse) 戌 Xu (Dog)　Fire trine卯 Mao (Rabbit)
申 Shen (Monkey) 子 Zi (Rat) 辰 Chen (Dragon)　Water trine酉 You (Rooster)
巳 Si (Snake) 酉 You (Rooster) 丑 Chou (Ox)　Metal trine午 Wu (Horse)
亥 Hai (Pig) 卯 Mao (Rabbit) 未 Wei (Goat)　Wood trine子 Zi (Rat)

Picker

Other stars with the same anchor

Traveling Horse · Canopy Star · General Star · Death God · Robbery Sha · Disaster Sha · Travel Sha

What this page deliberately does not do

A note on what this page deliberately does not do: the popular versions of this material assign a fixed personality to each term — one character per branch, one destiny per stage. This site rejects that framing. What is published here is a structural position: which element sits where, on what kind of ground, with which tenants inside. The same term reads differently under a different month command, and no meaningful judgement exists without the other characters of the chart. Where the tradition offers a reading it is labelled as the tradition's; this site's own contribution is that every number and term on this page is computed, versioned and checkable against the methodology page.

FAQ

How is the Peach Blossom (Tao Hua) determined?
Anchor on the trine group (anchored on the year or day branch — both schools valid). Also called Xian Chi (the Bathing Pool), it sits on the four cardinal branches and marks charm and attraction. The full lookup is printed in the table above; the picker repeats the same data for the anchor you choose.
Does Peach Blossom appear in my chart?
Check the anchor against your four pillars: the day stem for stem-anchored stars, the year or day branch for trine-anchored ones, the birth month for month-anchored ones. The shen sha index page also has a scanner that reads a birth time and scans all 36 stars at once.
Does the Peach Blossom mean I am lucky or unlucky?
This site deliberately stops at the rule and the table. Classical texts attach auspicious or inauspicious readings to each star, but those readings assume a full chart analysis; printing a verdict from one tag is the kind of claim we refuse to make.

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Reference index

Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.