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The Yi-Mao Tai Sui: General Wan Qing
An outspoken official whose clear, calm writing exposed a "for the people" tax that wasn't.
- Guardian of
- People born in a Yi-Mao year, the Year of the Rabbit
- Born between
- Feb 11, 1975 – Jan 30, 1976
Feb 8, 2035 – Jan 27, 2036 - Past life (legend)
- Wan Qing, a Song dynasty remonstrance official (folk legend)
- Symbol
- An official tablet held in both hands: clear eyes and a clean conscience
If you were born between these dates, you were born in a Yi-Mao year, the Year of the Rabbit, and General Wan Qing watches over you.
(A new year starts on Lunar New Year’s Day.)
A spring breeze through the woods
Yi and Mao are both yin wood, a gentle, graceful kind of wood energy, like a light spring breeze through the forest that carries the smell of flowers and clears the dust away.
General Wan Qing guards this year. People born in Yi-Mao years often have refined taste, filter out noise instinctively, do not get swept up in passing chaos, and express deep feelings in a graceful way.
Clear, not cold
His face is upright and serious, with clear, sharp eyes that refuse anything false, the way a clean spring refuses mud. He wears a deep blue official robe like a morning sky and a red cloak.
His clarity is not coldness. Under it is real warmth for people. He holds an official tablet steadily in both hands.
A pen like spring water
According to legend, he was Wan Qing, a Song dynasty official whose job was to criticize the government, at a time when many courtiers made a living by flattering. Wan Qing wrote report after report, clear and sharp, about what was going wrong.
His most famous report took apart a new tax dressed up as "for the people" that actually let local officials line their pockets. He did not use angry words. He just laid out the logic point by point until anyone who read it could see what it really was.
The truth stays the truth
That report made him enemies, and his career suffered for it. He never regretted it: "I wrote the truth I saw. The truth doesn't change because saying it didn't turn out well for me."
Heaven named him the Tai Sui of the Yi-Mao year. Clear eyes and an honest heart: that is his gift to everyone born in the Year of the Rabbit.
Questions people ask
Who is the Tai Sui for people born in 1975?
People born between Feb 11, 1975 and Jan 30, 1976 were born in a Yi-Mao year, the Year of the Rabbit. Their Tai Sui is General Wan Qing.
Who was General Wan Qing before becoming a Tai Sui?
Wan Qing, a Song dynasty remonstrance official (folk legend).
What does General Wan Qing hold?
An official tablet held in both hands: clear eyes and a clean conscience.
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