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class=\"tzl-cn\">\u516d\u7834<\/span> <em>Li\u00f9 P\u00f2<\/em> (also called <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u76f8\u7834<\/span> <em>Xi\u0101ng P\u00f2<\/em>, &#8220;mutual breaking&#8221;), groups the twelve Earthly Branches into six pairs. A direct premodern description appears in the &#8220;Break&#8221; (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7834<\/span>) section of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), an anonymous Six Ren (\u516d\u58ec) divination compendium preserved in a Ming-period edition. That source lists all six relationships by name and gives several of the traditional judgments still repeated today.<\/p>\n      <p>Because that text belongs to the Six Ren divination tradition rather than the <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>-based tradition this site cites for Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, Six Conflicts, Six Harms, and Mutual Punishments, this page keeps the two traditions separate \u2014 and separates what the old text actually says from explanations later BaZi practitioners have added on top of it.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"quick-answer\">\n      <h2>Six Breaks <em>quick answer<\/em><\/h2>\n      <p>The six Six Breaks pairs are Rat&#8211;Rooster, Rabbit&#8211;Horse, Dragon&#8211;Ox, Goat&#8211;Dog, Tiger&#8211;Pig, and Snake&#8211;Monkey. Every one of the twelve animals appears in exactly one pair.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\"><strong>Careful reading:<\/strong><br>Six Breaks is a technical label from the Earthly Branches (\u5730\u652f) \u2014 twelve symbolic signs used in the traditional Chinese calendar and in BaZi, a birth-chart system built from a person&#8217;s year, month, day, and hour of birth. &#8220;Break&#8221; here names a branch relationship, not a promise that two real people will disrupt each other. This page&#8217;s Six Harms and Mutual Punishments pages draw on the <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> \u2014 a separate BaZi\/Earthly-Branch textual tradition from the Six Ren (\u516d\u58ec) divination tradition this page draws on; see the section below on where Six Breaks comes from before assuming the two traditions are interchangeable. It is a relationship between Earthly Branches and can appear between branches in any of the four BaZi pillars, not only the birth-year branch. The animal names on this page are a reader-friendly way to display the six branch pairs; they do not mean the rule is limited to birth-year zodiac animals.<\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"pairs\">\n      <h2>The six Six Breaks pairs<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-mini-grid\">\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Rat \u00b7 Rooster<\/strong><span>\u5b50\u9149\u7834<\/span><p><em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>: &#8220;\u4e3b\u9634\u5c0f\u707e\u6094&#8221; \u2014 brings minor, hidden setbacks.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Rabbit \u00b7 Horse<\/strong><span>\u536f\u5348\u7834<\/span><p><em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>: &#8220;\u4e3b\u95e8\u6237\u7834\u8d25&#8221; \u2014 household and standing suffer loss.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Dragon \u00b7 Ox<\/strong><span>\u8fb0\u4e11\u7834<\/span><p><em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>: &#8220;\u4e3b\u5899\u5893\u9893\u572e&#8221; \u2014 walls and graves fall into disrepair.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Goat \u00b7 Dog<\/strong><span>\u672a\u620c\u7834<\/span><p><em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>: &#8220;\u4e3b\u4eba\u7269\u5211\u4f24&#8221; \u2014 injury to people, the most severe of the four &#8220;plain&#8221; pairs.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Tiger \u00b7 Pig<\/strong><span>\u5bc5\u4ea5\u7834\u5408<\/span><p>Tiger and Pig are simultaneously a Six Harmonies pair. <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> itself names this &#8220;\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408,\u8d25\u800c\u590d\u6210&#8221; \u2014 breaking with a bond inside it, a softer case than the four pairs above.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Snake \u00b7 Monkey<\/strong><span>\u5df3\u7533\u7834\u5408<\/span><p>The same &#8220;\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408,\u8d25\u800c\u590d\u6210&#8221; case as Tiger&#8211;Pig, named directly in <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>. Covered in more depth on the <a href=\"\/snake-monkey-compatibility\/\">Snake and Monkey page<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"branch-table\">\n      <h2>Six Breaks branch table: the classical text vs later explanation<\/h2>\n      <p>The table below deliberately splits two things this page&#8217;s earlier draft ran together: what the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> &#8220;Break&#8221; section actually states, and mechanisms later BaZi practitioners have proposed to explain why. The classical passage itself is short \u2014 a naming and a one-line judgment per pair. It does not offer the Five-Element or Twelve-Stages-of-Growth reasoning in the right-hand column; that reasoning is a later addition, flagged as such.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead><tr><th>Pair<\/th><th>Chinese branch pair<\/th><th><em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> says<\/th><th>Later practitioner explanation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Rat \u00b7 Rooster<\/td><td>\u5b50\u9149\u7834<\/td><td>&#8220;\u9149\u7834\u5b50,\u4e3b\u9634\u5c0f\u707e\u6094&#8221; \u2014 Rooster breaks Rat; brings minor, hidden setbacks.<\/td><td>Not stated in the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> passage cited here. Later practitioner writing explains it through the Twelve Stages of Growth (\u5341\u4e8c\u957f\u751f): \u5b50 (water) and \u9149 (metal) are ordinarily a generating pair (metal produces water), but both sit at their own \u5e1d\u65fa (peak-strength) stage, so neither &#8220;yields&#8221; strength to generate the other.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Rabbit \u00b7 Horse<\/td><td>\u536f\u5348\u7834<\/td><td>&#8220;\u5348\u7834\u536f,\u4e3b\u95e8\u6237\u7834\u8d25&#8221; \u2014 Horse breaks Rabbit; household and standing suffer loss.<\/td><td>Not stated in the classical passage. Later practitioner writing frames \u536f (wood) generating \u5348 (fire) as a normally cooperative relationship that tips into friction when carried to excess.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Dragon \u00b7 Ox<\/td><td>\u8fb0\u4e11\u7834<\/td><td>&#8220;\u8fb0\u7834\u4e11,\u4e3b\u5899\u5893\u9893\u572e&#8221; \u2014 Dragon breaks Ox; walls and graves fall into disrepair.<\/td><td>Not stated in the classical passage. Later practitioner writing notes \u8fb0 and \u4e11 are both earth branches with no generating or conquering relationship between them, reading the pair as inertia rather than active conflict.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Goat \u00b7 Dog<\/td><td>\u672a\u620c\u7834<\/td><td>&#8220;\u620c\u7834\u672a,\u4e3b\u4eba\u7269\u5211\u4f24&#8221; \u2014 Dog breaks Goat; injury to people, the most severe of the four &#8220;plain&#8221; pairs.<\/td><td>No mechanism found in the material reviewed for this page, classical or later.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Tiger \u00b7 Pig<\/td><td>\u5bc5\u4ea5\u7834\u5408<\/td><td>&#8220;\u4ea5\u7834\u5bc5\u2026\u2026\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408,\u8d25\u800c\u590d\u6210&#8221; \u2014 Pig breaks Tiger; breaking with a bond inside it, defeat turning to completion.<\/td><td>Later practitioners connect this directly to Tiger and Pig also being a named Six Harmonies pair \u2014 the two relationships coexist on the same two branches.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Snake \u00b7 Monkey<\/td><td>\u5df3\u7533\u7834\u5408<\/td><td>&#8220;\u7533\u7834\u5df3,\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408,\u8d25\u800c\u590d\u6210&#8221; \u2014 Monkey breaks Snake; same judgment as Tiger&#8211;Pig.<\/td><td>Same reasoning as Tiger&#8211;Pig: Snake and Monkey are also a Six Harmonies pair.<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>The classical passage closes with &#8220;<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u516d\u53cd\u7686\u7136<\/span>&#8221; \u2014 &#8220;the same holds in reverse for all six&#8221; \u2014 which is why this page displays each Six Breaks relationship as an undirected pair (Rat&#8211;Rooster rather than only &#8220;Rooster breaks Rat&#8221;), unlike this site&#8217;s Mutual Punishments page, where the source gives the three-branch cycles a specific direction.<\/p>\n      <p>None of the four &#8220;plain&#8221; pairs (Rat&#8211;Rooster, Rabbit&#8211;Horse, Dragon&#8211;Ox, Goat&#8211;Dog) shares one later-practitioner mechanism, and the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> passage itself does not explain <em>why<\/em> any of the six pairs breaks \u2014 it names the pairs and states the judgment. Tiger&#8211;Pig and Snake&#8211;Monkey stand apart from the other four because the classical text itself gives them a distinct judgment (&#8220;breaking with a bond inside it&#8221;) rather than the plain &#8220;breaks&#8221; judgment given to the other four pairs \u2014 and both pairs are also named Six Harmonies pairs elsewhere on this site.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"source-tier\">\n      <h2>Where Six Breaks comes from: a different textual tradition<\/h2>\n      <p>This site&#8217;s Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, Six Conflicts, Six Harms, and Mutual Punishments pages all trace their pairs to a named chapter in the Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a), a BaZi and Earthly-Branch fate-calculation compendium. Six Breaks does not come from that book \u2014 checks of its chapter tables of contents, and of the earlier Song-dynasty <em>Yuanhai Ziping<\/em> (\u6e0a\u6d77\u5b50\u5e73), turned up no standalone chapter on Six Breaks in either text. But that does not mean Six Breaks lacks an old textual source. It has one: the &#8220;Break&#8221; (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7834<\/span>) section of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), which opens by defining the term (&#8220;<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7834\u8005,\u6563\u4e5f,\u79fb\u4e5f<\/span>&#8221; \u2014 &#8220;breaking means scattering, means shifting&#8221;), then names all six relationships in a single passage and gives most of them a one-line judgment, several of which are reproduced in the table above.<\/p>\n      <p>The real distinction is not old versus new, or high-tier versus low-tier \u2014 it is which of two separate Chinese fate-calculation traditions a page draws on. Six Harms and Mutual Punishments on this site come from the <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> lineage, built around BaZi and the Earthly Branches. Six Breaks comes from the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>, a compendium belonging to Six Ren (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u516d\u58ec<\/span>) divination \u2014 a separate, and separately old, Chinese divination system with its own textual history. <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> is not a marginal source: the Qing imperial <em>Siku Quanshu<\/em> catalogue includes it as the only Six Ren text in the collection, describing it as an anonymous compilation (&#8220;<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u4e0d\u8457\u64b0\u4eba\u540d\u6c0f<\/span>&#8221;) whose surviving edition names Guo Zaikan (\u90ed\u8f7d\u9a0b), a Ming-dynasty judicial official in Huaiqing, as its editor\/collator (&#8220;<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u6821<\/span>&#8221;) rather than its author.<\/p>\n      <p>What this page treats as later addition is not the six pairs or their classical judgments \u2014 those are directly attested in the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> passage itself \u2014 but the Five-Element and Twelve-Stages-of-Growth mechanisms that later BaZi practitioners have proposed to explain <em>why<\/em> each pair breaks. The classical passage states the pairs and their judgments; it does not explain the underlying mechanism. That explanatory layer is marked separately in the table above.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"compare\">\n      <h2>Six Breaks vs the other five branch-relationship systems<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead><tr><th>System<\/th><th>Chinese<\/th><th>Structure<\/th><th>Textual source<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Three Harmonies<\/td><td>\u4e09\u5408 \u00b7 S\u0101n H\u00e9<\/td><td>Four groups of three signs<\/td><td>Named <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> chapter (BaZi\/Earthly-Branch tradition)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harmonies<\/td><td>\u516d\u5408 \u00b7 Li\u00f9 H\u00e9<\/td><td>Six one-to-one pairs<\/td><td>Named <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> chapter (BaZi\/Earthly-Branch tradition)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Conflicts<\/td><td>\u516d\u51b2 \u00b7 Li\u00f9 Ch\u014dng<\/td><td>Six opposite pairs<\/td><td>Named <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> chapter (BaZi\/Earthly-Branch tradition)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harms<\/td><td>\u516d\u5bb3 \u00b7 Li\u00f9 H\u00e0i<\/td><td>Six one-to-one pairs<\/td><td>Named <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> chapter, \u8bba\u516d\u5bb3 (BaZi\/Earthly-Branch tradition)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Mutual Punishments<\/td><td>\u76f8\u5211 \u00b7 Xi\u0101ng X\u00edng<\/td><td>Two three-branch cycles, one two-branch pair, one self-punishment group<\/td><td>Named <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> chapter, \u8bba\u4e09\u5211 (BaZi\/Earthly-Branch tradition)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Breaks<\/td><td>\u516d\u7834 \u00b7 Li\u00f9 P\u00f2<\/td><td>Six one-to-one pairs<\/td><td>Named &#8220;\u7834&#8221; section of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (Six Ren divination tradition \u2014 a separate lineage from the five rows above)<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>Six Breaks does not duplicate any Six Harms or Six Conflicts pair. It does overlap with two other systems, in two different ways. Tiger&#8211;Pig and Snake&#8211;Monkey are also named Six Harmonies pairs \u2014 the same two branches carry both relationships at once, an overlap later interpretation commonly connects to the &#8220;breaking with a bond inside it&#8221; judgment those two pairs receive in <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>. Separately, Snake&#8211;Monkey (\u5df3\u7533) is also one edge of the Tiger&#8211;Snake&#8211;Monkey (\u5bc5\u5df3\u7533) Mutual Punishments cycle, and Goat&#8211;Dog (\u672a\u620c) is one edge of the Ox&#8211;Dog&#8211;Goat (\u4e11\u620c\u672a) Mutual Punishments cycle \u2014 see this site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-punishments\/\">Mutual Punishments<\/a> page for those two three-branch cycles. A pair naming the same two branches across different systems does not mean the systems agree with each other; each is a separate named relationship from a separate source.<\/p>\n      <p>See the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\">Three Harmonies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\">Six Harmonies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-opposite-signs\/\">Six Conflicts<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/\">Six Harms<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-punishments\/\">Mutual Punishments<\/a> pages for the other five systems.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"birth-year-note\">\n      <h2>Confirm the sign first<\/h2>\n      <p>None of these six categories is useful if the underlying zodiac sign is wrong, and a sign taken from a calendar year alone can be wrong for people born in the first weeks of the year \u2014 the Chinese zodiac year turns over on a date other than January 1. For ordinary zodiac-animal lookup, the year changes at Lunar New Year. Formal BaZi practice commonly uses L\u00ecch\u016bn (Start of Spring) for the year-pillar boundary instead, so it matters which convention is being used.<\/p>\n      <p>Use the <a href=\"\/\">Chinese Zodiac Calculator<\/a> or <a href=\"\/zodiac-years-chart\/\">Chinese Zodiac Years Chart<\/a> before comparing Six Breaks pairs.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"common-mistakes\">\n      <h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li><strong>Assuming Six Breaks and Six Harms come from the same book.<\/strong> Both have a genuine premodern textual source, but from two separate traditions \u2014 Six Harms from the <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>&#8217;s BaZi lineage, Six Breaks from the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>&#8217;s Six Ren divination lineage. See the section above on where Six Breaks comes from.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Treating Six Breaks as a prediction of real-life disruption.<\/strong> It is a branch-relationship judgment from a classical divination text, not a verdict on two actual people.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming the classical text explains why each pair breaks.<\/strong> The <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> passage names the six pairs and gives most of them a one-line judgment; the Five-Element and Twelve-Stages-of-Growth mechanisms in this page&#8217;s table are later practitioner explanations, not part of that passage. Tiger&#8211;Pig and Snake&#8211;Monkey get a distinct classical judgment (&#8220;breaking with a bond inside it&#8221;), and those same two pairs also happen to be Six Harmonies pairs \u2014 an overlap later practitioners use to explain the phrase.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Skipping the zodiac year boundary.<\/strong> January and February birthdays can produce the wrong animal if the boundary is ignored.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Using the pairing as relationship advice.<\/strong> The result is cultural and historical context, not marriage, dating, medical, or financial guidance.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n      <h2>Want to check this for your own signs?<\/h2>\n      <p>All six Six Breaks pairs are set out above as a general pattern. Two things go further if you want your own sign \u2014 or you and a partner&#8217;s signs \u2014 checked specifically, not just placed in a pair:<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-links two\">\n        <a href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\"><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong>Your full stem-branch write-up: which sign is your Six Breaks pairing, your element balance, and what that traditionally means for you specifically \u2014 as a printable report.<span>See the reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\"><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong>How your sign and a partner&#8217;s sign read together across this site&#8217;s branch-relationship systems, not just whether you share a Six Breaks pair.<span>See the report &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card tzl-faq\" id=\"faq\">\n      <h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n      <details><summary>What is Six Breaks (\u516d\u7834) in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>It is one of several named Earthly Branch relationship categories used in Chinese fate calculation: six one-to-one pairs \u2014 Rat&#8211;Rooster, Rabbit&#8211;Horse, Dragon&#8211;Ox, Goat&#8211;Dog, Tiger&#8211;Pig, and Snake&#8211;Monkey.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What text is Six Breaks sourced from?<\/summary><p>A direct premodern account appears in the &#8220;Break&#8221; (\u7834) section of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), an anonymous Six Ren (\u516d\u58ec) divination compendium preserved in a Ming-period edition. That passage names all six relationships and gives most of them a one-line traditional judgment.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is Six Breaks from the same textual tradition as Six Harms and Mutual Punishments?<\/summary><p>No. This site&#8217;s Six Harms and Mutual Punishments pages rely primarily on the <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>, a BaZi and Earthly-Branch fate-calculation compendium. The direct source used here for Six Breaks is the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em>, a compendium of Six Ren divination \u2014 a separate Chinese divination tradition. The distinction is about which textual tradition each page draws on, not simply older versus newer or more versus less reliable.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Does every Six Breaks pair work the same way?<\/summary><p>Not quite. The <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> gives four pairs a plain &#8220;breaks&#8221; judgment (Rat&#8211;Rooster, Rabbit&#8211;Horse, Dragon&#8211;Ox, Goat&#8211;Dog), while Tiger&#8211;Pig and Snake&#8211;Monkey receive the distinct phrase &#8220;breaking with a bond inside it&#8221; (\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408). Those same two pairs are also Six Harmonies pairs; later interpretation commonly connects the phrase with that overlap. The Five-Element mechanisms proposed for the four plain pairs on this page are later practitioner explanations, not part of the classical passage itself.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Are Six Breaks pairs bad matches?<\/summary><p>The classical text frames them as an adverse branch relationship, not as a fixed outcome. How two real people get along depends on far more than one branch relationship.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Where should I start if I do not know my sign?<\/summary><p>Start with the Chinese Zodiac Calculator or the Zodiac Years Chart.<\/p><\/details>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"next-steps\">\n      <h2>Next steps<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-links\">\n        <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\"><strong>Three Harmonies<\/strong>Learn the four group-based harmony patterns.<span>Read groups &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\"><strong>Six Harmonies<\/strong>Learn the six &#8220;secret friend&#8221; one-to-one pairs.<span>Read Six Harmonies &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/\"><strong>Six Harms<\/strong>See the classical, Sanming-Tonghui-sourced sibling category.<span>Read Six Harms &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-punishments\/\"><strong>Mutual Punishments<\/strong>Read the three Xing groups and self-punishment.<span>Read Punishments &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/snake-monkey-compatibility\/\"><strong>Snake and Monkey<\/strong>See how the &#8220;breaking with a bond&#8221; case plays out for one real pairing.<span>Read Snake &amp; Monkey &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/zodiac-years-chart\/\"><strong>Years Chart<\/strong>Confirm your animal and element by birth year.<span>Open chart &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <!-- DISTILL-CHECK: keywords=[\u4e09\u4f1a,\u5bc5\u536f\u8fb0,\u5df3\u5348\u672a,\u7533\u9149\u620c,\u4ea5\u5b50\u4e11,\u76f8\u7834,\u516d\u7834,\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168,\u65b9\u5c40]; hits=[references\/\u751f\u8096\u5178\u6545\u8bd7\u53e5\u5e93.md#L432 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Its direct textual source is the &#8220;Break&#8221; (\u7834) section of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), an anonymous Six Ren (\u516d\u58ec) divination compendium preserved in a Ming-period edition. The six pairings and the traditional judgments &#8220;\u95e8\u6237\u7834\u8d25,&#8221; &#8220;\u5899\u5893\u9893\u572e,&#8221; &#8220;\u9634\u5c0f\u707e\u6094,&#8221; &#8220;\u4eba\u7269\u5211\u4f24,&#8221; and &#8220;\u7834\u4e2d\u6709\u5408,\u8d25\u800c\u590d\u6210&#8221; are attested directly in that passage, cross-checked against two independently hosted transcriptions of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> full text. The Five-Element and Twelve-Stages-of-Growth mechanisms presented in this page&#8217;s branch table for the four &#8220;plain&#8221; break pairs are later explanatory additions from BaZi practitioner writing and are identified separately in the table; they are not attributed to the classical passage itself. The <em>Siku Quanshu<\/em> catalogue description of the <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> (&#8220;\u4e0d\u8457\u64b0\u4eba\u540d\u6c0f&#8221; \u2014 author unnamed; &#8220;\u6000\u5e86\u5e9c\u63a8\u5b98\u90ed\u8f7d\u9a0b\u6821&#8221; \u2014 collated by Guo Zaikan, a Ming-dynasty judicial official in Huaiqing) is the basis for describing Guo Zaikan as an editor\/collator rather than the book&#8217;s compiler or author. This site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/snake-monkey-compatibility\/\">Snake and Monkey compatibility page<\/a> separately cites <em>Liuren Daquan<\/em> for the Snake&#8211;Monkey pair specifically; both pages now describe it as a separate Six Ren textual tradition rather than a lower tier of the same BaZi tradition used for Six Harms and Mutual Punishments. Quoted judgments are presented as what the cited sources say, not as verified fact. Compatibility notes on The Zodiac Lore are cultural and educational references, not relationship, marriage, medical, financial, legal, or life-decision advice.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n  {\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is Six Breaks (\u516d\u7834) in the Chinese zodiac?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"It is one of several named Earthly Branch relationship categories used in Chinese fate calculation: six one-to-one pairs - Rat-Rooster, Rabbit-Horse, Dragon-Ox, Goat-Dog, Tiger-Pig, and Snake-Monkey.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What text is Six Breaks sourced from?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"A direct premodern account appears in the Break (\u7834) section of the Liuren Daquan (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), an anonymous Six Ren (\u516d\u58ec) divination compendium preserved in a Ming-period edition. 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How two real people get along depends on far more than one branch relationship.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Where should I start if I do not know my sign?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Start with the Chinese Zodiac Calculator or the Zodiac Years Chart.\"}}]}\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sechs Br\u00fcche \u00b7 \u516d\u7834 Li\u00f9 P\u00f2 \u2013 Die sechs Br\u00fcche im chinesischen Tierkreis: Erkl\u00e4rung der Li\u00f9-P\u00f2-Paare Die sechs Br\u00fcche, auch \u516d\u7834 Li\u00f9 P\u00f2 (oder \u76f8\u7834 Xi\u0101ng P\u00f2, \u201cgegenseitiges Brechen\u201d) genannt, gruppieren die zw\u00f6lf Erdzweige in sechs Paare. Eine direkte vormoderne Beschreibung findet sich im Abschnitt \u201cZerbrechen\u201d (\u7834) des \u201eLiuren Daquan\u201c (\u516d\u58ec\u5927\u5168), einem anonymen Werk zum Sechs-Ren-System (\u516d\u58ec) \u2026 <a title=\"Die sechs Br\u00fcche des chinesischen Tierkreises (\u516d\u7834): Paare und Bedeutung\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/chinese-zodiac-six-breaks\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Chinese Zodiac Six Breaks (\u516d\u7834): Pairs &#038; Meaning\">Weiterlesen \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_title":"Chinese Zodiac Six Breaks (\u516d\u7834): Pairs & Meaning","rank_math_description":"The six Chinese zodiac Six Breaks pairs, their direct Liuren Daquan source, and how this system relates to Six Harms and Mutual Punishments.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"chinese zodiac six breaks, liu po chinese zodiac, mutual break zodiac, six breaks zodiac pairs, xiangpo chinese zodiac","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4279","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4286,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4279\/revisions\/4286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}