If any element is too strong or too weak it will be difficult for that person to enjoy good fortune and long life. This echoes that insistence on harmony and equilibrium which informs the age-old Chinese concept of man's divinely-appointed fate. (Sunny Hsiao and Laura Li / / tr. by Andrew Morton)
但八字之道儘管繁雜，總有一個原則，就是一個人五行的生克扶抑要恰到好處，太強太弱都有偏頗，難以「福壽雙全」，和中國人固有的講求和諧、均衡的天命觀遙相呼應。