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BaZi & Four Pillars 101

Year Pillar vs Four Pillars: Your Zodiac Animal Is Only One Layer

Your birth-year animal is the year pillar — one branch in a four-pillar BaZi chart. Here is what that means for gifts, colors, and when you need more than the zodiac.

BaZi & Four Pillars 101

Day Master Colors & BaZi Wearables (Chart-Aware Gift Bundles)

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water Day Master palettes as two-category gift bundles, botanical silk with sandalwood, navy commute sets, and more, after you confirm pillars on match flow.

BaZi & Four Pillars 101

Heavenly Stems & Earthly Branches Explained (十天干 · 十二地支)

Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches are the alphabet of BaZi. Together they form the four pillars, the 60-year cycle, and the zodiac branch you already know.

Feng Shui Basics

What Is Feng Shui? Space, Symbols & What It Is Not

Feng shui is the Chinese art of reading how people relate to place, wind, water, direction, and symbol. This beginner guide separates it from BaZi and five elements, and points to wearable color stories.

Wearables 101

What Counts as a Wearable? Five Elements, Zodiac Elements & Everyday Gifts

Mallria wearables are more than bracelets — hair clips, scarves, bags, ties, and shoes can all carry five-element or zodiac color stories. This guide defines the full scope and maps Eastern and Western element languages to everyday gifts.

Almanac & Yi/Ji 101

Chinese Almanac Yi / Ji Explained (What Everyone’s Calendar Shows)

Yi (宜) and Ji (忌) on a Chinese almanac are the same for everyone that day — how to read them, and how that differs from a personal BaZi calendar.

Five Elements 101

What Are the Five Elements (Wu Xing)? A Beginner’s Guide

What Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water mean in Chinese tradition, where the idea comes from, what it is not, and how five-element color stories land on wearable gifts.

What Is BaZi? Four Pillars in Plain English
BaZi & Four Pillars 101

What Is BaZi? Four Pillars in Plain English

BaZi (Eight Characters) builds a chart from your birth year, month, day, and hour — here is what the four pillars mean.

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