Earthly Branch profile
Chen · Dragon · late-spring Earth
Chen is late-spring Earth, a transition branch that gathers the remainder of spring while moving toward summer conditions.
Fixed coordinates
- Primary element
- 土
- Polarity
- Yang
- Seasonal position
- late spring
- Double-hour
- 07:00–09:00
- Solar-month position
- 3
Season and time coordinate
Its 07:00–09:00 double-hour and third solar-month position describe a threshold rather than a static, uniform state.
What the branch stores
Chen stores Wu, Yi, and Gui in canonical order. The list records a traditional composition but does not calculate moisture, rooting, strength, or transformation.
What to watch for
Do not treat Chen as an automatic storage vault, wealth sign, clash outcome, or evidence that one element dominates the chart.
Hidden Stems structure
Practical reflection
What transition requires you to preserve what still matters while changing the structure that carries it?
Reading method and boundary
This page explains the traditional correspondence between a branch and its Hidden Stems. It adds no weighting, strength, or activation judgment and infers no event from one branch.