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坤艮问道TERRAMONTAO
TERRAMONTAO · 坤艮问道N 22°34′ · E 113°57′ · Nanshan, Shenzhen

Time has a landscapeChoice remains human

A clock gives everyone the same hour. The sun gives you your own moment. Terramontao starts from true solar time to build intelligent tools that understand Eastern ideas of time, and know when to stop.

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Streams and Mountains without End detail · Late Northern Song to Jin · Cleveland Museum of Art

In a landscape painted nine centuries ago,people are small.

But where the boat goesis still theirs to decide.

What we believe

A clock tells us what time it is. The sun tells us where we are within it. Terramontao turns the Eastern study of time into tools you can calibrate and question, and that know when to stop.

Terramontao Cultural TechnologyShenzhen · 2026

The method in our name

Four words,one way of building.

Kun is the earth that carries. Gen is the mountain that stops. To ask is a curiosity that does not rest. Dao is the road back to everyday life.

About Terramontao

  1. Hold complexity

    Like the earth, take in the whole picture first: time, place, calendar and school, laid out before any conclusion.

  2. Know where to stop

    Like a mountain, keep to limits: no fear, and no crossing into medical, legal or investment advice.

  3. Keep asking

    Every explanation can be questioned: what it rests on, and what it does not know.

  4. Return it to life

    Understanding goes back to your life. Judgement, relationships and action remain yours.

I · Calibrate

Beijing timeis not your time.

China spans more than sixty degrees of longitude yet keeps a single clock. At 08:30 in Nanshan, Shenzhen, the sun has only reached 08:02, and near the edge of a double-hour a few minutes can change it. Geomontao calibrates first, then builds the chart.

Clock time · 1 Jan 2000 · Nanshan, ShenzhenTrue solar time · Chen hour

Longitude
−24′11″
Equation of time
−3′04″
Total
−27′15″
Geomontao true solar time correction: clock time 08:30 in Nanshan, Shenzhen; true solar time 08:02
Geomontao · true solar timeiOS beta

II · Three charts

Three systems,each on its own terms.

Bazi is written on bamboo slips, following the five phases through time. Ziwei and Qizheng are cut into turning dials, mapping the palaces and the motion of the planets. All three come from deterministic rules, not written on the spot by AI, and sit side by side, never collapsed into one verdict.

01 / 03 · Four Pillars (Bazi)

Four pillarsfor phase and rhythm.

Demo profile
1 Jan 2000 08:30 · Nanshan, Shenzhen · male
True solar time
08:02 · Chen hour
Day master
Wu Earth
Geomontao Bazi on bamboo slips: the four pillars Ji-Mao, Bing-Zi, Wu-Wu, Bing-Chen

02 / 03 · Ziwei Doushu · Zhongzhou school

Twelve palacesfor how a life connects.

Chart
Heaven chart first; Human and Earth charts compared
Life palace
Shen · empty, borrowing across
Element bureau
Metal Four
Geomontao Zhongzhou Ziwei dial: the twelve palaces of the heaven chart in tiers

03 / 03 · Qizheng Siyu

Sun, moon and planetsfor the motion of the sky.

Zodiac
Sidereal · day birth
Ascendant
Ox-Metal 7° · life palace in Chou
Transit
2026 Bing-Wu · overlaid
Geomontao Qizheng Siyu dial: ascendant at Ox-Metal 7°, with the 2026 transit overlaid

III · Inquiry

Ask,and see the grounds.

Ask the charts or ask the teachers. Read one chart, or all three together: each gives its own evidence, then the differences are compared. The Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist teachers each answer from their own tradition. Every basis traces back to its original line.

I am thinking about changing jobs. What should I see clearly first?
  1. ChooseOne chart, several together, or a teacher
  2. Set the depthDeep, detailed or quick: you choose how long to wait
  3. EvidenceEach chart gives its grounds, then agreements and differences
  4. Check the sourceQuotations compared character by character with the base text
  5. Hold the lineNotice signs of crisis and point to help first
Ask the charts: Bazi, Ziwei and Qizheng selected together, with depth and quick questions below
Opening of a three-chart answer: before asking which company pays more, look at where you stand nowAsk the teachers: the Confucian teacher suggests deciding nothing today and writing three reasons on each side
Inquiry · charts and teachersAI-generated · for cultural reference
Today's lesson, the source step: Wang Yangming's words set vertically, ‘without a set direction, nothing can be accomplished’
Evening reflection: did you write down one ‘I want to…’ today?
Morning lesson · evening reflectioniOS beta

IV · Practice

A lesson in the morning,a look back at night.

Self-cultivation is not one sudden insight. In the morning, a lesson walks from an everyday situation to a line in the classics; through the day you practise it; at night one tap colours a petal, eighty-one days to a full plum branch. Miss a day and nothing is lost; come back and carry on.

  1. SceneToday's situation
  2. SourceThe original text, set vertically, with its source
  3. QuestionThink it through from another side
  4. LineKeep one sentence
  5. PracticeHow to try it today

V · Knowing where to stop

Being able to answeris not a reason to answer.

Read our principles
  1. No fear built on disaster, illness or lifespan.
  2. No medical, legal, psychological or investment instructions.
  3. No cultural metaphor dressed up as scientific proof.
  4. No selling of luck-changing anxiety, and no verdicts on your life.

Here · everything on the page has stopped moving

Dawn again

See clearly,without being defined.

A chart is a mirror. Judgement, relationships and action remain yours.

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