Also called: Bao jing wen · Treasure mirror mark · Precious mirror · Ring pattern of office

Where on the hand: Classically in the Qian, Kun and Dui palaces — the Mount of Luna, the Apollo–Mercury zone and Upper Mars — but read in any palace.

What it looks like: A clean closed circle or ring standing on its own, like a bronze mirror seen face-on.

A mark of authority and the seal of office. Chinese sources read the mirror in the Qian, Kun and Dui palaces as military or executive command, and in the remaining palaces as civil or scholarly office. It belongs with the seal pattern as one of the two classic marks of conferred authority.

Read with care: Western palmistry reads an independent circle on the palm as one of the more ominous marks — on Apollo, an old and much-repeated association with damage to the eyes. Chinese practice reads the same closed ring as a mirror of office. The traditions disagree completely, and neither claim should be presented as fact. PROVENANCE. This term is genuine and circulating in Chinese palmistry, but it could not be traced past two modern Chinese listicles ('六種富貴紋' and '九大掌紋') that propagate across content sites. No classical attestation was found. Direct access to 神相全編 and 古今圖書集成 was blocked, so this is 'not established' rather than 'not classical'.