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The Ding-Wei Tai Sui: General Miao Bing
A palace musician who soothed sad hearts with her harp, then left to teach poor children.
- Guardian of
- People born in a Ding-Wei year, the Year of the Goat
- Born between
- Feb 9, 1967 – Jan 29, 1968
Feb 6, 2027 – Jan 25, 2028 - Past life (legend)
- Miao Bing, a woman court musician and painter of the Tang dynasty (legend; history books do not record her life)
- Symbol
- A gentle calm: "However loud it is out there, you can rest here."
If you were born between these dates, you were born in a Ding-Wei year, the Year of the Goat, and General Miao Bing watches over you.
(A new year starts on Lunar New Year’s Day.)
A candle over a summer pasture
Ding is yin fire, a candle that warms just the corner that needs it. Wei is the late summer pasture where the goats graze slowly, storing up the harvest for the next season. A candle watching over a field: quiet, steady company.
General Miao Bing guards this year. People born in Ding-Wei years often notice what others need, prefer harmony to conflict, and have an artist's soul that feels beauty deeply.
A place to rest
She wears a black official hat with a red band. Her face is fine and calm, with the easy smile of someone who knows that everything passes.
She wears a grass-green robe and a yellow cloak, like a sunny pasture, one hand resting on her knee. However wild things are out there, here you can let your shoulders drop.
The harp in the palace
History books do not record her life. In the Tai Sui tradition this channel follows, she was a woman official at the Tang court, gifted in music and painting, admired for her skill and always humble. Whenever someone in the palace was sunk in sorrow, she would play a soft tune on the konghou, an ancient Chinese harp, until they found their calm again.
Later she left the palace and opened a small school outside the city. She did not teach the things that win official posts. She taught poor children music and painting, because she believed a sense of beauty belongs to everyone, not just the rich and powerful.
Thirty years of children
She taught there for thirty years. Her students scattered far and wide, but they all remembered her: the person who showed them, in the hardest days, that beautiful things still existed.
Heaven named her the Tai Sui of the Ding-Wei year. A gentle warmth and a heart for beauty: that is her gift to everyone born in the Year of the Goat.
Questions people ask
Who is the Tai Sui for people born in 1967?
People born between Feb 9, 1967 and Jan 29, 1968 were born in a Ding-Wei year, the Year of the Goat. Their Tai Sui is General Miao Bing.
Who was General Miao Bing before becoming a Tai Sui?
Miao Bing, a woman court musician and painter of the Tang dynasty (legend; history books do not record her life).
What does General Miao Bing hold?
A gentle calm: "However loud it is out there, you can rest here.".
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