Nine palaces, eight doors, and the three wonders
The board is nine palaces. The eight doors are the channels. The three wonders are Yi, Bing, and Ding. The six instruments carry Jia. The center has no door of its own.
Editorial review: 2026-09-22 · Reviewed by fateshow · Editorial method
Each palace holds a door and a star
The palaces are Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, the center, Qian, Dui, Gen, and Li. The center has no door. The other eight each hold a door, a star, and a spirit.
On the heaven plate, Ding is at Qian, Bing at Li, Yi at Kun, and Wu at the center. On the earth plate, Bing is at Zhen, Yi at Xun, Ding at Kun, and Wu at the center.
The eight doors are eight channels
Rest, Life, Injury, Block, Scenery, Death, Shock, and Open. One door sits in one palace.
Here Death is at Kan, Shock at Gen, Open at Zhen, Rest at Xun, Life at Li, Injury at Kun, Block at Dui, and Scenery at Qian.
The three wonders are Yi, Bing, and Ding
Yi, Bing, and Ding are the three wonders. The other stems are the six instruments, and Jia hides among them. A wonder can sit on both plates. Write both layers.
Heaven: Ding at Qian, Bing at Li, Yi at Kun. Earth: Bing at Zhen, Yi at Xun, Ding at Kun. Do not collapse this into one luck sentence.
Illustration: doors and wonders on one hour
The same clock, yang ju 5. Open is at Zhen, Life at Li, and the lead door Death at Kan. The wonders are in the previous section.
The definition is on What Qi Men is.
Common mistakes
- Assigning a door to the center.
- Writing the heaven plate and skipping the earth plate.
- Collapsing the three wonders into one luck sentence.
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Qi Men Dun Jia
A nine-palace board cast from the moment, read by useful god, palace and direction
Open tool →Frequently asked questions
Why does the center have no door?
The eight doors occupy the eight direction palaces. The center holds a stem, not a door.
Are Yi, Bing, and Ding instruments?
No. They are the three wonders. The six instruments are the other stems, which carry Jia.
Is Open always better than Death?
Do not rank them. Write the palace first, then where the lead door sits.
Sources and editorial basis
- 1. Yanbo Diaosou Ge, transmitted text
Names for the palaces, doors, and three wonders.
- 2. fateshow rule snapshot
Supports only the fields the engine printed in the illustration. An illustration is not something that has already happened.