Also called: Hei zi wen · Mole in the palm's centre · Mole held in the fist · 掌心痣 · Palm-heart mole

Where on the hand: In the hollow at the centre of the palm — the Ming Tang — positioned so that when the hand closes into a fist the mole is completely enclosed inside it.

What it looks like: A single dark mole in the palm's centre. The test is not its appearance but its position: close the fist, and if the mole disappears inside, it counts.

Chinese palmistry reads a mole grasped inside the closed fist as wealth held rather than spent — money that the person takes hold of and does not let go. It is read as fortune arising from a talent pursued with obsessive persistence, and is one of the standard nine wealth marks.

Read with care: Indian and Western palmistry both read moles on the palm largely as blemishes and obstacles — a black mole in particular is treated as inauspicious in Indian sources. The Chinese 'held in the fist' rule is the clearest example of a mark being auspicious in one tradition and inauspicious in another. And no tradition's reading of a mole has any bearing on the one thing that actually matters about a changing mole, which is a dermatologist's opinion. 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'.