{"id":4223,"date":"2026-09-13T02:29:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:23:08","slug":"les-six-fleaux-du-zodiaque-chinois","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/","title":{"rendered":"Les six conflits du zodiaque chinois : explication des paires de Liu Hai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"tzl-page\">\n  <style>\n\/* The Zodiac Lore \u2014 Style B brand-unified *\/\n.tzl-page{\n  --bg:#fff;--ink:#0a0a0a;--soft:#3a3a3a;--grey:#5c5c5c;--muted:#9a9a9a;--line:#e6e6e6;\n  --accent:#e1391b;--accent-dark:#b02a12;\n  --sans:\"Archivo\",Arial,sans-serif;--mono:\"Spline Sans Mono\",ui-monospace,monospace;\n  --zh:\"Noto Sans SC\",\"PingFang SC\",\"Microsoft YaHei\",sans-serif;\n  max-width:1040px;margin:0 auto;color:var(--ink);background:var(--bg);\n  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class=\"tzl-cn\">\u516d\u5bb3<\/span> <em>Li\u00f9 H\u00e0i<\/em>, are six one-to-one Earthly Branch pairings, commonly shown through their zodiac animals. Older fate-calculation texts treat Six Harms as a separate type of adverse Earthly-Branch relationship. It is distinct from Six Conflicts, but the classical source does not rank it simply as a milder version of a clash.<\/p>\n      <p>Three Harmonies, Six Harmonies, and Six Conflicts cover most compatibility questions on this site, but another named branch-relationship category exists alongside them. This page sets out the six Six Harms pairs, what a Ming-dynasty source says about each one, and how the category differs from the other three.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"quick-answer\">\n      <h2>Six Harms <em>quick answer<\/em><\/h2>\n      <p>The six Six Harms pairs are Rat\u2013Goat, Ox\u2013Horse, Tiger\u2013Snake, Rabbit\u2013Dragon, Monkey\u2013Pig, and Rooster\u2013Dog. Every one of the twelve animals appears in exactly one pair.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\"><strong>Careful reading:<\/strong><br>Six Harms 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;Harm&#8221; here names a branch relationship, not a promise that two real people will hurt each other. The classical source explains each pair through element and phase language, and this page reports what it says rather than treating it as settled fact. Technically, Six Harms 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 Harms pairs<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-mini-grid\">\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Rat \u00b7 Goat<\/strong><span>\u5b50\u672a\u5bb3<\/span><p>Both branches are described as vigorous, but the source still gives the relationship a direction: Goat&#8217;s strong earth is said to harm Rat&#8217;s strong water.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Ox \u00b7 Horse<\/strong><span>\u4e11\u5348\u5bb3<\/span><p>Horse&#8217;s vigorous fire is described as overwhelming Ox&#8217;s weakened metal. Covered in more depth on the <a href=\"\/horse-ox-compatibility\/\">Horse and Ox page<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Tiger \u00b7 Snake<\/strong><span>\u5bc5\u5df3\u5bb3<\/span><p>Both branches are read through the same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage, framed as rivalry between two signs each asserting its own ability.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Rabbit \u00b7 Dragon<\/strong><span>\u536f\u8fb0\u5bb3<\/span><p>Rabbit&#8217;s vigorous wood is described as overwhelming Dragon&#8217;s weakened earth \u2014 the text calls this &#8220;the young overpowering the elder.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Monkey \u00b7 Pig<\/strong><span>\u7533\u4ea5\u5bb3<\/span><p>The same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage as Tiger\u2013Snake, here framed as jealousy over ability and competing to advance.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><strong>Rooster \u00b7 Dog<\/strong><span>\u9149\u620c\u5bb3<\/span><p>Dog&#8217;s weakened fire is described as harming Rooster&#8217;s vigorous metal \u2014 the one pair where the weaker-phase branch is said to act on the stronger one.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"branch-table\">\n      <h2>Six Harms branch table: what the classical source says<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead><tr><th>Pair<\/th><th>Chinese branch pair<\/th><th>What Sanming Tonghui says<\/th><th>Named label<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Rat \u00b7 Goat<\/td><td>\u5b50\u672a\u5bb3<\/td><td>Both are described as strong: Goat&#8217;s vigorous earth is said to harm Rat&#8217;s vigorous water.<\/td><td>\u52bf\u5bb6\u76f8\u5bb3 \u2014 &#8220;mutual harm between two powerful houses&#8221;<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Ox \u00b7 Horse<\/td><td>\u4e11\u5348\u5bb3<\/td><td>Horse&#8217;s vigorous fire is described as overwhelming Ox&#8217;s weakened metal.<\/td><td>\u5b98\u9b3c\u76f8\u5bb3 \u2014 a traditional technical label used by the source (gu\u0101ngu\u01d0, literally &#8220;official-ghost&#8221;; \u5b98\u9b3c is also a standard term in traditional Six Relatives divination vocabulary, not unpacked further here)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Tiger \u00b7 Snake<\/td><td>\u5bc5\u5df3\u5bb3<\/td><td>Both rely on \u4e34\u5b98, a strong, maturing stage, &#8220;flaunting ability while advancing.&#8221;<\/td><td>No four-character label given in the source<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Rabbit \u00b7 Dragon<\/td><td>\u536f\u8fb0\u5bb3<\/td><td>Rabbit&#8217;s vigorous wood is described as overwhelming Dragon&#8217;s weakened earth.<\/td><td>\u4ee5\u5c11\u51cc\u957f\u76f8\u5bb3 \u2014 &#8220;the young overpowering the elder&#8221;<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Monkey \u00b7 Pig<\/td><td>\u7533\u4ea5\u5bb3<\/td><td>Both rely on \u4e34\u5b98 again, described as &#8220;competing out of jealousy over ability.&#8221;<\/td><td>No four-character label given in the source<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Rooster \u00b7 Dog<\/td><td>\u9149\u620c\u5bb3<\/td><td>Dog&#8217;s weakened fire is described as harming Rooster&#8217;s vigorous metal.<\/td><td>\u5ac9\u5992\u76f8\u5bb3 \u2014 &#8220;jealousy mutual harm&#8221;<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>Source: the Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a<\/span>), compiled by Wan Min-ying, in its <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u8bba\u516d\u5bb3<\/span> (&#8220;On the Six Harms&#8221;) chapter \u2014 the same classical source this site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/horse-ox-compatibility\/\">Horse and Ox compatibility page<\/a> cites for the Ox\u2013Horse pair. \u4e34\u5b98 (l\u00edngu\u0101n, &#8220;assuming office&#8221;) is a strong stage in the Twelve Stages of Growth (\u5341\u4e8c\u957f\u751f) system used in Chinese fate calculation, immediately before \u5e1d\u65fa, the peak stage \u2014 strong and maturing, but not yet the strongest point in the cycle. It is named here as the shared mechanism for two pairs but not explained further, in keeping with how the source itself treats it.<\/p>\n      <p>One pattern worth noting: the six pairs do not all work the same way. One pair (Rat\u2013Goat) has both branches described as vigorous, yet the source still gives the relationship a direction \u2014 Goat&#8217;s earth is said to harm Rat&#8217;s water. Two pairs (Ox\u2013Horse, Rabbit\u2013Dragon) follow a vigorous-branch-overwhelms-weakened-branch pattern. Two more (Tiger\u2013Snake, Monkey\u2013Pig) are framed as rivalry between branches sharing the same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage, rather than one overwhelming the other. Rooster\u2013Dog runs opposite to the vigorous-over-weak pattern \u2014 the weakened branch (Dog) is the one said to cause harm. The source does not explain why this last pair reverses that pattern.<\/p>\n      <p><strong>A possible explanation the source itself does not give:<\/strong> in all four pairs above that are framed through vigorous-versus-weakened phases, the branch said to cause harm is also the one whose element conquers the other&#8217;s under the standard Five-Element cycle \u2014 earth conquers water (Goat over Rat), fire conquers metal (Horse over Ox, and again Dog over Rooster), and wood conquers earth (Rabbit over Dragon). That cycle does not care which branch happens to be in a more vigorous phase at that particular point \u2014 fire structurally conquers metal whether the fire branch itself is vigorous (Horse) or weakened (Dog). If that holds, the &#8220;vigorous vs weakened&#8221; phase language may just be flavor describing each branch&#8217;s own condition, while the fixed element-conquering relationship is what actually decides the direction \u2014 which would explain both why Rat\u2013Goat still has a direction despite both being vigorous, and why Rooster\u2013Dog reverses the usual vigorous-over-weak pattern without needing a special exception. This reading does not extend to Tiger\u2013Snake or Monkey\u2013Pig, which the source frames as a shared \u4e34\u5b98 rivalry rather than an element-conquering relationship.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"older-precedent\">\n      <h2>A much older, and more skeptical, precedent<\/h2>\n      <p>The Ming-dynasty Six Harms scheme above is not the first time zodiac animals were said to overcome each other through elemental logic. Writing around 80 CE \u2014 roughly fifteen centuries before <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>, compiled around 1578 \u2014 the Eastern Han thinker Wang Chong recorded a similar-sounding folk theory in his <em>Lunheng<\/em> (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u8bba\u8861<\/span>): wood&#8217;s tiger subdues the earth of ox, sheep, and dog; water&#8217;s pig and rat overcome the fire of snake and horse. The text states it plainly: &#8220;\u6c34\u80dc\u706b,\u6545\u8c55\u98df\u86c7\u3002\u706b\u4e3a\u6c34\u6240\u5bb3,\u6545\u9a6c\u98df\u9f20\u5c4e\u800c\u8179\u80c0&#8221; \u2014 water overcomes fire, so the pig eats the snake; fire is harmed by water, so the horse eats rat droppings and its belly swells.<\/p>\n      <p>Wang Chong then argues against his own summary, using the same passage&#8217;s own rhetorical questions: &#8220;\u6c34\u80dc\u706b,\u9f20\u4f55\u4e0d\u9010\u9a6c?\u91d1\u80dc\u6728,\u9e21\u4f55\u4e0d\u5544\u5154?\u571f\u80dc\u6c34,\u725b\u7f8a\u4f55\u4e0d\u6740\u8c55?\u706b\u80dc\u91d1,\u86c7\u4f55\u4e0d\u98df\u7315\u7334?&#8221; \u2014 water overcomes fire, so why doesn&#8217;t the rat chase the horse? metal overcomes wood, so why doesn&#8217;t the chicken peck the rabbit? earth overcomes water, so why don&#8217;t cattle and sheep kill the pig? fire overcomes metal, so why doesn&#8217;t the snake eat the macaque? His conclusion: real dominance among creatures comes from strength, vigor, and skill (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7b4b\u529b\u3001\u6c14\u52bf\u3001\u5de7\u4fbf<\/span>), not abstract Five-Element correspondence. His pairing logic is different from the six branch-pairs above \u2014 he is grouping animals by their assigned element directly, not by the mechanism behind the Six Harms pairs \u2014 so this is not another source for the same six pairs. What it does show is that skepticism toward mechanically applying Five-Element dominance to zodiac animals was already explicit in the Eastern Han period.<\/p>\n      <p>Wang Chong made the same style of argument elsewhere in <em>Lunheng<\/em>, in the separate \u5076\u4f1a (&#8220;Chance Coincidences&#8221;) chapter, on a different topic: people blaming one spouse for the other&#8217;s early death through a supposed mutual-harm relationship. His conclusion there was the same shape as his animal argument \u2014 <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u975e\u76f8\u8d3c\u5bb3,\u547d\u81ea\u7136\u4e5f<\/span>, &#8220;it is not mutual harm; it is simply how things fall out naturally.&#8221; It is a different passage about a different kind of pairing \u2014 it does not mention zodiac signs or Earthly Branches at all \u2014 so it is not another source for the Six Harms list, but it shows the same skepticism running through more than one chapter of his work.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"folk-rhyme\">\n      <h2>The same six pairs, sung as a folk rhyme<\/h2>\n      <p>Outside classical fate-calculation texts, the same six pairs survive in Chinese oral folklore as a marriage-matching taboo rhyme, still quoted today in several recorded wordings. One common version runs: &#8220;\u4ece\u6765\u767d\u9a6c\u6015\u9752\u725b,\u7f8a\u9f20\u76f8\u9022\u4e00\u65e6\u4f11;\u86c7\u89c1\u731b\u864e\u5982\u5200\u65ad,\u732a\u4e0e\u733f\u7334\u4e0d\u5230\u5934;\u9f99\u9022\u5154\u513f\u4e91\u7aef\u8d70,\u91d1\u9e21\u89c1\u72ac\u6cea\u4ea4\u6d41&#8221; \u2014 roughly, &#8220;the white horse has always feared the green ox; when sheep and rat meet, it ends at once; snake meeting fierce tiger is like a knife cutting; pig and monkey never last; dragon and rabbit part ways; golden rooster meeting dog brings tears.&#8221; Line by line, the pairs match Ox\u2013Horse, Rat\u2013Goat, Tiger\u2013Snake, Monkey\u2013Pig, Rabbit\u2013Dragon, and Rooster\u2013Dog \u2014 the same six branch-pairs named in <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>, carried by a memorable rhyme rather than a classical text. Like most oral folklore, the rhyme circulates in more than one wording; the pairs stay consistent even where the exact phrasing does not.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"modern-evidence\">\n      <h2>Does zodiac compatibility still shape marriage matching?<\/h2>\n      <p>This shows up in ordinary dating practice, not just old texts. Before or during a matchmaking introduction (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u76f8\u4eb2<\/span>), it is common for both sides to exchange basic details early \u2014 birth year, and often birth month \u2014 partly so each can check the other&#8217;s zodiac sign. Rabbit and Dragon, this page&#8217;s own Six Harms pair, is one combination people commonly raise directly: someone born in a Rabbit year meeting a Dragon-year match may be asked outright whether they mind the traditional &#8220;incompatibility&#8221; label, echoing the same folk rhyme quoted above (&#8220;\u9f99\u5154\u6cea\u4ea4\u6d41&#8221; \u2014 dragon and rabbit bring tears \u2014 appears in another recorded version of that rhyme).<\/p>\n      <p>Belief in unfavorable zodiac compatibility is not only preserved in old texts and rhymes \u2014 it appears to leave a measurable trace in China&#8217;s marriage market today. Economists Lingwei Wu (Fudan University) and Danyan Zha (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) published <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jebo.2026.107539\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Traditional beliefs matter in the marriage market: Evidence from zodiac compatibility in China&#8221;<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Economic Behavior &amp; Organization<\/em>, 246 (2026), 107539. Using China&#8217;s population census data, they found that couples in the traditionally &#8220;bad&#8221; zodiac compatibility category had observed marital frequencies 5.6% lower than couples with a &#8220;neutral&#8221; pairing, a statistically significant gap; couples in the &#8220;good&#8221; category had observed marital frequencies only 0.8% higher, not a statistically significant difference.<\/p>\n      <p>The paper&#8217;s own methodology, set out in its <a href=\"https:\/\/danyanzha.weebly.com\/uploads\/1\/2\/7\/5\/127503180\/draft_zodiac.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public prepublication manuscript<\/a>, defines &#8220;bad&#8221; compatibility as a combined category covering Six Harms (\u76f8\u5bb3), Six Conflicts (\u76f8\u51b2), the Punishment rules (\u76f8\u5211, including self-punishment), and certain folkloric zodiac-matching sayings together \u2014 not Six Harms in isolation, and this page&#8217;s Six Harms pairs are only one part of what the study measures. That manuscript&#8217;s compatibility matrix gives the specific classification of each zodiac pair behind the two headline figures.<\/p>\n      <p>The researchers&#8217; own reading matches this page&#8217;s stance throughout: the gap is not evidence that any individual zodiac pairing actually helps or harms a marriage. It is evidence that the <em>belief<\/em> shapes real decisions \u2014 the published version reports stronger effects among older cohorts, the Han ethnic group, and regions with shorter cultural distance to the zodiac tradition and stronger histories of arranged marriage, patterns the authors read as tracking the strength of belief in the zodiac system rather than any real compatibility effect. (The authors&#8217; public prepublication manuscript also reports stronger effects among less-educated groups; this page follows the published journal version for the main heterogeneity result.)<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"compare\">\n      <h2>Six Harms vs Three Harmonies vs Six Harmonies vs Six Conflicts<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead><tr><th>Pattern<\/th><th>Chinese<\/th><th>Structure<\/th><th>Meaning<\/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>Shared rhythm, group support, similar direction.<\/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>Complementary pairing, quieter cooperation.<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Conflicts<\/td><td>\u516d\u51b2 \u00b7 Li\u00f9 Ch\u014dng<\/td><td>Six opposite pairs<\/td><td>Direct contrast, friction, or opposing priorities.<\/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>A separate traditional &#8220;harm&#8221; or obstruction relationship; not the same rule as Six Conflicts, and the source text does not rank it as simply milder.<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n      <p>Six Harms and Six Harmonies both group the twelve animals into six one-to-one pairs, but by a different rule. Six Harmonies pairs are fixed &#8220;secret friend&#8221; partners. In <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em>, the Six Harms are explained through the interaction of Six Harmony and Six Conflict relationships: the text notes that Rat clashes with Horse under Six Conflicts, while Goat combines with Horse under Six Harmonies \u2014 and it is this overlap that the source gives as producing the Rat\u2013Goat harm relationship. A sign&#8217;s Six Harms partner is never the same animal as its Six Harmonies partner. See the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\">Three Harmonies<\/a>, <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-six-harmonies\/\">Six Harmonies<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-opposite-signs\/\">Six Conflicts<\/a> pages for the other three.<\/p>\n      <p>In modern compatibility shorthand, Six Harms is sometimes described as background or indirect friction, distinct from the outright clash of Six Conflicts. That framing comes from contemporary practitioner usage, not from <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> itself \u2014 the classical text&#8217;s own language for Six Harms (such as <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u4e3a\u5bb3\u5c24\u751a<\/span>, &#8220;the harm is especially severe,&#8221; and <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u51e1\u516d\u5bb3\u5165\u547d,\u5927\u7387\u4e3b\u59a8\u5bb3\u5b64\u72ec<\/span>, describing it as bringing obstruction and isolation) is not notably softer than its language for other adverse relationships.<\/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 four 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 Harms pairs.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"common-mistakes\">\n      <h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li><strong>Treating Six Harms as a prediction of real-life conflict.<\/strong> It is a classical branch-relationship label, not a verdict on two actual people.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Confusing Six Harms with Six Conflicts.<\/strong> Six Conflicts pairs sit directly opposite each other on the twelve-branch cycle; Six Harms pairs are a separate category, explained in the source through the interaction of Six Harmony and Six Conflict relationships rather than a simple opposite-position rule.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming every pair shares one mechanism.<\/strong> The source explains the six pairs through four distinct framings \u2014 one pair where both branches are vigorous yet the relationship still has a direction (Goat&#8217;s earth harming Rat&#8217;s water), a vigorous branch overwhelming a weakened one, two branches sharing the same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage, and one reversed case (Rooster\u2013Dog) where a weakened branch harms a vigorous one \u2014 not a single rule repeated six times.<\/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>The six Six Harms pairs above are explained as a general system. Two things go further if it&#8217;s your own sign \u2014 or you and a partner&#8217;s signs \u2014 you want read specifically:<\/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 Harms 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 Harms 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 Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>It is one of the named Earthly Branch relationship categories in Chinese fate calculation: six one-to-one pairs \u2014 Rat\u2013Goat, Ox\u2013Horse, Tiger\u2013Snake, Rabbit\u2013Dragon, Monkey\u2013Pig, and Rooster\u2013Dog. The classical source treats it as a separate type of adverse relationship, not simply a milder version of Six Conflicts.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What text is Six Harms sourced from?<\/summary><p>The Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a), compiled by Wan Min-ying, in its \u8bba\u516d\u5bb3 (&#8220;On the Six Harms&#8221;) chapter.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is Six Harms the same as Six Conflicts?<\/summary><p>No. Six Conflicts pairs the six directly opposite signs on the twelve-branch cycle. Six Harms is a separate category with its own six pairs, none of which match the Six Conflicts pairs; the source explains Six Harms through the interaction of Six Harmony and Six Conflict relationships rather than a simple opposite-position rule.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Does every Six Harms pair work the same way?<\/summary><p>No. The classical source explains the six pairs through four different framings: one pair (Rat\u2013Goat) has both branches described as vigorous, yet the source still gives it a direction (Goat&#8217;s earth harming Rat&#8217;s water); two pairs (Ox\u2013Horse, Rabbit\u2013Dragon) follow a vigorous-overwhelms-weakened pattern; two pairs (Tiger\u2013Snake, Monkey\u2013Pig) share the same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage; and one pair (Rooster\u2013Dog) reverses the vigorous-over-weak pattern, with the weaker branch said to cause the harm.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Are Six Harms 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-opposite-signs\/\"><strong>Six Conflicts<\/strong>Understand the six opposition pairs.<span>Compare conflicts &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a href=\"\/horse-ox-compatibility\/\"><strong>Horse and Ox<\/strong>See how the Ox-Horse Six Harm plays out for one real pairing.<span>Read Horse &amp; Ox &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        <a href=\"\/12-signs\/\"><strong>12 Zodiac Signs<\/strong>Review all animal signs before comparing pairs.<span>Open signs &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <!-- DISTILL-CHECK: keywords=[\u516d\u5bb3,\u76f8\u5bb3,\u4e34\u5b98,\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a,\u5341\u4e8c\u957f\u751f,\u5b98\u9b3c,\u52bf\u5bb6,\u516d\u51b2,\u79d8\u5bc6\u670b\u53cb,\u5730\u652f\u76f8]; hits=[references\/\u9634\u9633\u4e94\u884c\u4e0e\u751f\u8096\u7406\u8bba.md#L722-724 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-->\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"editorial-note\">\n      <h2>Editorial note<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"tzl-source-note\">This page explains Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) as a classical Chinese zodiac and Earthly Branch relationship category, sourced to the Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u4f1a) by Wan Min-ying, via its \u8bba\u516d\u5bb3 chapter \u2014 cross-checked against two independent transcriptions of the same chapter. The Eastern Han passages on zodiac animals and Five-Element dominance, including Wang Chong&#8217;s rhetorical-question rebuttal and his separate \u5076\u4f1a chapter argument about spousal death, are quoted from his <em>Lunheng<\/em> (\u8bba\u8861), via the full text hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/zh.wikisource.org\/wiki\/%E8%AB%96%E8%A1%A1\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikisource<\/a> and cross-checked against independent quotations of the same passages. The folk marriage-matching rhyme is a widely recorded piece of oral folklore with several circulating wordings; the version quoted here is cross-checked against multiple independently published transcriptions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sina.cn\/news\/detail\/5109263141180865.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one hosted by Sina<\/a>, and the &#8220;\u9f99\u5154\u6cea\u4ea4\u6d41&#8221; wording is drawn from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huangli.com\/shengxiao\/14037.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a separately recorded version<\/a>. The Rabbit\u2013Dragon &#8220;incompatibility&#8221; label discussed during matchmaking is a widely documented piece of Chinese folk marriage-matching practice, independent of any single source. The 2026 marriage-market study is Lingwei Wu and Danyan Zha, &#8220;Traditional beliefs matter in the marriage market: Evidence from zodiac compatibility in China,&#8221; <em>Journal of Economic Behavior &amp; Organization<\/em>, 246 (2026), 107539 (DOI linked above); its 5.6%\/0.8% figures and its combined definition of &#8220;bad&#8221; compatibility (Six Harms, Six Conflicts, Punishments, and folkloric sayings together) are confirmed directly from the authors&#8217; own public prepublication manuscript, <a href=\"https:\/\/danyanzha.weebly.com\/uploads\/1\/2\/7\/5\/127503180\/draft_zodiac.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosted by co-author Danyan Zha<\/a>. Quoted phrases are presented as what those sources say, not as a verified mechanism. 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 Harms (\u516d\u5bb3) in the Chinese zodiac?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"It is one of the named Earthly Branch relationship categories in Chinese fate calculation: six one-to-one pairs - Rat-Goat, Ox-Horse, Tiger-Snake, Rabbit-Dragon, Monkey-Pig, and Rooster-Dog. 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Six Harms is a separate category with its own six pairs, none of which match the Six Conflicts pairs; the source explains Six Harms through the interaction of Six Harmony and Six Conflict relationships rather than a simple opposite-position rule.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Does every Six Harms pair work the same way?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No. The classical source explains the six pairs through four different framings: one pair (Rat-Goat) has both branches described as vigorous, yet the source still gives it a direction (Goat's earth harming Rat's water); two pairs (Ox-Horse, Rabbit-Dragon) follow a vigorous-overwhelms-weakened pattern; two pairs (Tiger-Snake, Monkey-Pig) share the same strong \u4e34\u5b98 stage; and one pair (Rooster-Dog) reverses the vigorous-over-weak pattern, with the weaker branch said to cause the harm.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Are Six Harms pairs bad matches?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"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.\"}},{\"@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>Les Six Malheurs \u00b7 \u516d\u5bb3 Li\u00f9 H\u00e0i : explication des paires des Six Malheurs du zodiaque chinois. Les Six Malheurs, ou \u516d\u5bb3 Li\u00f9 H\u00e0i, correspondent \u00e0 six paires de Branches terrestres, g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement repr\u00e9sent\u00e9es par leurs animaux du zodiaque. Les textes anciens consacr\u00e9s au calcul du destin consid\u00e8rent les Six Malheurs comme un type distinct de relation d\u00e9favorable entre les Branches terrestres. Ils se distinguent des Six Conflits, mais dans la tradition classique\u2026 <a title=\"Les six conflits du zodiaque chinois : explication des paires de Liu Hai\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/chinese-zodiac-six-harms\/\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur Chinese Zodiac Six Harms: Liu Hai Pairs Explained\">En savoir plus<\/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 Harms: Liu Hai Pairs Explained","rank_math_description":"The six Chinese zodiac Six Harms pairs, sourced to the Ming-dynasty Sanming Tonghui: Rat-Goat, Ox-Horse, Tiger-Snake, Rabbit-Dragon, Monkey-Pig, Rooster-Dog.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"chinese zodiac six harms, liu hai, six harms chinese zodiac, sanming tonghui, chinese zodiac harm pairs","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4223","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4223\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}