page_title: Tai Sui
section_title: Practices
hierarchical_section_title: Tai Sui / Practices
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 乙未太歲楊仙大將軍神像
context_page_description: Tai Sui is a Chinese term for the stars directly opposite the planet Jupiter during its roughly 12-year orbital cycle. Personified as deities, they are important features of Chinese astrology, Feng Shui, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism to a lesser extent.
context_section_description: In Taoism, those whose birth sign or other features clash with the Tai Sui of the year will face misfortunes or disturbances for the whole current year. They are advised to conduct a prayer session with a priest to propitiate the deity, ensuring peace and good fortune during the year. Each year, this applies to people born under 4 out of the 12 zodiac signs. In 2017, for example, it applied to people born in the years of the Rat, Rabbit, Horse and Rooster. Talismans thought to protect against Tai Sui are sold in many areas.
  In Chinese culture it has been traditionally considered taboo to build a house facing Taisui (or in the directly opposite direction) in the corresponding year of the Chinese zodiac. A similar belief is associated with moving houses and the line drawn through the old and new dwellings.
  Images of the Deities of the 60 Heavenly General of Tai Sui in correspondence to the previous detailed table above (refer to the Year number to Tai Sui and Heavenly General, e.g.: Year 1 - 甲子太歲 Jiǎ-Zǐ Tài-Suì 金辨大將軍 Jīn Biàn Dà-Jiāng-Jūn)
caption: 乙未太歲
  楊仙大將軍
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