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The Jia-Chen Tai Sui: General Li Cheng
An interpreter who translated every word exactly, even when it hurt his own side.
- Guardian of
- People born in a Jia-Chen year, the Year of the Dragon
- Born between
- Feb 13, 1964 – Feb 1, 1965
Feb 10, 2024 – Jan 28, 2025 - Past life (legend)
- Li Cheng, a trader and border interpreter of the Yuan dynasty (folk legend)
- Symbol
- Folded hands and a steady look: honesty you don't have to announce
If you were born between these dates, you were born in a Jia-Chen year, the Year of the Dragon, and General Li Cheng watches over you.
(A new year starts on Lunar New Year’s Day.)
A tree and a dragon in spring thunder
Jia is the first stem, a great tree that grows straight up without pretending. Chen is the dragon rising with spring thunder, always finding the way through a stuck situation. Honesty and courage together go far.
General Li Cheng guards this year. People born in Jia-Chen years are often honest and direct, no excuses, no games, and also driven to try new things.
Calm and certain
He wears a fine official crown with a small jewel and has a neat beard. His face is open and clear, with the calm of someone who always does what he says.
He wears dark robes under a yellow cloak, hands folded. Real honesty does not need to be shouted. It shows in what you do every day.
Word for word
According to legend, he was Li Cheng, a trader and interpreter on the Yuan dynasty frontier. Because the two sides could not understand each other, interpreters often twisted words to take a cut from both.
Li Cheng had one rule: every sentence was translated exactly, nothing added, nothing removed, even when it did not help his own side. Once a merchant said something that hurt his own deal, and Li Cheng translated it faithfully. The shocked merchant asked why. Li Cheng said, "What you said is what you meant. My job is for them to hear you, not me."
Trust on both sides
Because of that honest translation, the two sides trusted each other more and traded for years. People began asking for him by name: "With him there, we don't have to worry about being fooled, because he won't let us fool them either."
Heaven named him the Tai Sui of the Jia-Chen year. Steady honesty and the courage to keep it: that is his gift to everyone born in the Year of the Dragon.
Questions people ask
Who is the Tai Sui for people born in 1964?
People born between Feb 13, 1964 and Feb 1, 1965 were born in a Jia-Chen year, the Year of the Dragon. Their Tai Sui is General Li Cheng.
Who was General Li Cheng before becoming a Tai Sui?
Li Cheng, a trader and border interpreter of the Yuan dynasty (folk legend).
What does General Li Cheng hold?
Folded hands and a steady look: honesty you don't have to announce.
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