Also called: Field pattern · Tian zi wen · Rice-field mark · Field-character pattern · Land mark

Where on the hand: Anywhere near the fate line or the life line, and especially in the Kan palace at the base of the palm, which governs land and buildings.

What it looks like: A square divided into four smaller squares by one vertical and one horizontal line through its middle — the Chinese character 田, a field divided by its irrigation paths.

Read as fortune from land and property: real estate, agriculture, construction, or an inherited house. Chinese sources say a person with a clear field pattern should deliberately choose a livelihood connected with land, and that their wealth will come from what is fixed and immovable rather than from trade.

Read with care: Western palmistry has no equivalent and would read the same crossed square as a square (protection) spoiled by a cross. Report the Chinese reading as Chinese. 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'.