Qian Mu
Renowned modern Chinese historian, philosopher and educator. Self-taught scholar who founded New Asia College and sustained prolific writing and teaching despite adversity.
Qian Zhongshu
Renowned Chinese writer and scholar. His **Geng** daymaster chart reveals creative insight, rigorous scholarship and durable resilience across hardship.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, naturalist and writer whose scientific books and advocacy awakened public awareness of ecological harm. Her BaZi shows a creative, scholarly core that translated technical knowledge into persuasive public prose and reform.
Shen Congwen
Modern Chinese literary master and cultural scholar, self-taught in Beijing, famed for Border Town and lifelong dedication to artifact research.
Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo (1032–1096), a Northern Song polymath and statesman, combined administrative talent with scientific innovation. His Bazi shows a Ji-earth daymaster supported by印 and食 influences that favored learning, creativity and public service.
Su Shi (苏轼)
Su Shi (1037–1101), Song dynasty poet-statesman, master of poetry, prose, calligraphy, and painting.
T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot was a foundational modernist poet, critic, and playwright whose work like The Waste Land reshaped twentieth-century literature. Born in St. Louis, he migrated to London, combined classical learning with religious reflection, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
Tang Xianzu
Ming dynasty dramatist and educator Tang Xianzu (1550–1616), author of The Peony Pavilion, known for emotional depth, moral integrity and late-life retreat.
Tang Yin (唐寅)
Ming dynasty painter, poet and calligrapher Tang Yin combined dazzling creativity with a tumultuous official career shaped by his BaZi configuration.
Tao Yuanming
Tao Yuanming (365–427), celebrated Jin poet and recluse, famed for pastoral verse and principled withdrawal from official life.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, chronicler of European crisis and artist psyche. Born into a Lübeck merchant family, he produced epic works such as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, later becoming a voice of humanism in exile and a symbol of moral resistance.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. He sold very little during his lifetime, but later became one of the most influential figures in modern art, with works such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom.