卷二 · 四吉神格局详解 · Chapter 35
论印绶
沈孝瞻（清）
生我之神
印绶因生身而见喜，且正偏同论、不分正偏。作者逐条列出印格诸式：印透官（官可自为用，只须官清）、印旺用伤食以泄秀、偏官生印而须身印有一方不足、用煞兼带伤食则「有生有泄」不论轻重皆为贵、印多用财以抑太过；也给出败局：印浅身轻而层叠伤食、印轻财重无劫相救（贪财破印）。末两段处理难辨之格：化印为劫、劫财存煞印。
古籍原文与精注
古文原韵与英文对齐，包含逐句释义与解注
印绶喜其生身，正偏同为美格，故财与印不分偏正，同为一格而论之。印绶之格局亦不一，有印而透官者，正官不独取其生印，而即可以为用，与用煞者不同。故身旺印强，不愁太过，只要官星清纯，如丙寅、戊戌、辛酉、戊子，张参政之命是也。
【原注】【正偏同格】印不分正印/偏印，合为一格论 —— 与财、官须分正偏不同。【印透官】官不仅生印，且可自为用神；只要官清，身旺印强亦不忌。
The seal is welcomed for generating the body, and proper and oblique alike are fine structures; hence wealth and seal, unlike the other gods, are discussed together without dividing proper from oblique. The seal structure also takes several forms. There is the seal revealing the officer: the proper officer is not taken merely as something that generates the seal but can itself be used — unlike the use of killings. So when the body is strong and the seal prosperous, excess need not be feared; the only requirement is that the officer star be clear and pure. The chart of Councillor Zhang — bing yin, wu xu, xin you, wu zi — is one.
然亦有带伤食而贵者，则如朱尚书命，丙戌、戊戌、辛未、壬辰，壬为戊制，不伤官也。又如临淮侯命，乙亥、己卯、丁酉、壬寅，己为乙制，己不碍官也。
【原注】【带伤食而贵】印格见伤食本非所喜；但若伤食被制（壬被戊制、己被乙制），则不碍官印 ⇒ 仍贵。
Yet there are charts carrying wounding or food that are noble. The chart of Minister Zhu — bing xu, wu xu, xin wei, ren chen — has ren controlled by wu, so it does not wound the officer. And the chart of the Marquis of Linhuai — yi hai, ji mao, ding you, ren yin — has ji controlled by yi, so ji does not obstruct the officer.
有印而用伤食者，身强印旺，恐其太过，泄身以为秀气。如戊戌、乙卯、丙午、乙亥，李状元命也，若印浅身轻，而用层层伤食，则寒贫之局矣。
【原注】【印旺用伤食】印过旺则泄身取秀（以伤食为用）。【印浅身轻用伤食】泄气太过 ⇒ 寒贫之局。
There is the seal structure using wounding or food: when the body is strong and the seal prosperous, excess is feared, and the wounding or food drains the body for its refinement. The chart of the top graduate Li — wu xu, yi mao, bing wu, yi hai — is one. But if the seal is shallow and the body light, and layer upon layer of wounding or food is used, that is a cold and poor structure.
有用偏官者，偏官本非美物，藉其生印，不得已而用之。故必身重印轻，或身轻印重，有所不足，始为有性。如茅状元命，己巳、癸酉、癸未、庚申，此身轻印重也。马参政命，壬寅、戊申、壬辰、壬寅，此身重印轻也。若身印并重而用七煞，非孤则贫矣。
【原注】【印用偏官】煞能生印，属不得已而用；须身与印有一方不足方成格。【身印并重而用煞】两皆有余而煞无用 ⇒ 孤或贫。
There is the use of the oblique officer: it is not a fine thing in itself, and is used by way of its generating the seal, only when nothing else will do. Hence some deficiency is required — the body heavy and the seal light, or the body light and the seal heavy — for it to have any character. The chart of the top graduate Mao — ji si, gui you, gui wei, geng shen — has a light body and heavy seal. The chart of Councillor Ma — ren yin, wu shen, ren chen, ren yin — has a heavy body and light seal. But when body and seal are both heavy and the seven killings are used, the result is either loneliness or poverty.
有用煞而兼带伤食者，则用煞而有制，生身而有泄，不论身旺印重，皆为贵格。
【原注】【用煞兼带伤食】煞有食制、印有伤泄 —— 有生有泄，故不论身印轻重皆为贵。
There is the use of killings together with wounding or food: the killings are used and yet controlled, the body is generated and yet drained; whatever the strength of body or seal, such charts are noble.
有印多而用财者，印重身强，透财以抑太过，权而用之，只要根深，无防财破。如辛酉、丙申、壬申、辛亥，汪侍郎命是也。若印轻财重，又无劫财以救，则为贪财破印，贫贱之局也。
【原注】【印多用财】印重身强则以财抑其太过（权用）；财须根深。【印轻财重无劫救】成「贪财破印」⇒ 贫贱。
There is the structure with much seal using wealth: when the seal is heavy and the body strong, wealth is revealed to check the excess and is used by expediency; so long as its root is deep there is no fear of wealth breaking the seal. The chart of Vice Minister Wang — xin you, bing shen, ren shen, xin hai — is one. But if the seal is light and wealth heavy with no robbers to rescue it, that is greed of wealth breaking the seal — a poor and lowly structure.
即或印重财轻而兼露伤食，财与食相生，轻而不轻，即可就富，亦不贵矣。然亦有带食而贵者，何也？如庚寅、乙酉、癸亥、丙辰，此牛监薄命，乙合庚而不生癸，所以为贵，若合财存食，又可类推矣。如己未、甲戌、辛未、癸巳，此合财存食之贵也。
【原注】【印重财轻兼露伤食】财食相生 ⇒ 可富而不贵。【合财存食】如乙合庚（财去）而食神得存 ⇒ 反贵。⚠️ 底本作「牛监薄命」，「薄」疑当作「簿」（官名）；两源同文，照录不改。
Even where the seal is heavy, the wealth light and wounding or food also revealed, wealth and food generate each other, so what was light is not light; the chart may then reach wealth, though not rank. Yet there are charts that carry the food god and are noble — why? The chart geng yin, yi you, gui hai, bing chen, that of Niu the registrar: yi combines with geng and so does not generate gui, and this is why it is noble. Where wealth is combined away and the food god preserved, the same reasoning extends. Ji wei, jia xu, xin wei, gui si is such a chart — combining away wealth to preserve the food god — and it is noble.
又有印而兼透官煞者，或合煞，或有制，皆为贵格。如辛亥、庚子、甲辰、乙亥，此合煞留官也；壬子、癸卯、丙子、己亥、此官煞有制也。
【原注】【印兼透官煞】或合煞留官、或有制（伤食制煞）⇒ 皆贵。
There are also seal structures revealing both officer and killings: whether the killings are combined away or brought under control, both are noble. In xin hai, geng zi, jia chen, yi hai the killings are combined away and the officer kept. In ren zi, gui mao, bing zi, ji hai the officer and killings are brought under control.
至于化印为劫；弃之以就财官，如赵知府命，丙午、庚寅、丙午、癸已，则变之又变者矣。
【原注】【化印为劫】印被会合成比劫（如寅午会火），则印不可用，改就财官 ⇒ 变的极端。⚠️ 底本末柱作「癸已」（当作「癸巳」）；两源同文，照录不改。
As for the seal transforming into the rob, and being abandoned in favour of wealth or officer — the chart of Prefect Zhao, bing wu, geng yin, bing wu, gui si — that is a change upon a change.
更有印透七煞，而劫财以存煞印，亦有贵格，如庚戌、戊子、甲戌、乙亥是也。然此格毕竟难看，宜细详之。
【原注】【劫财存煞印】煞生印而财破印，得劫财去财则煞印俱全 ⇒ 亦贵；但此格难辨，作者嘱「细详之」。
There is also the seal revealing the seven killings with robbers preserving both killings and seal; this too can be noble, as in geng xu, wu zi, jia xu, yi hai. Yet such a structure is in the end hard to read and should be examined with care.