What are the basis for predicting national fortunes in ancient times?

National fate prediction (national fate prediction), in short, is the science of studying and predicting the future and destiny of the country. According to different research objects, it can be divided into two major factions, one is the prophecy school, and the other is the reasoning school. Ancient Chinese four-pillar prediction researchers believe that researchers of the Bagua and Nine Palaces predictions have summarized a "house fortune" for the country in 20 years. The "period" rule is too general, so each fleeting national destiny is also discussed from the perspective of four-pillar prediction. Among the books that discuss the fleeting national destiny are "Jade Box" and so on. In the miscellaneous chapter of Xiangwen's "Jade Box Chronicles", "On the Day of Bingzi in the First Ten Days of the Lunar New Year", a discussion of the national fortunes in the current year is: "In the good year of Jiazi, there was a drought in Bingzi, locusts in Wuzi caused chaos in Gengzi, and only the flood of Renzi flooded the sky, all in the first ten days of the first month. Look. "The meaning of this paper is very clear, that is, if you want to know the national fortune in the fleeting year, just look at the heavenly stem that matches the "Zi" day on the tenth day of the first month of the year; if it is the Jiazi day, it means the national fortune in the fleeting year. It is a joyful and auspicious "harvest year"; if it is Bingzi day, it means that the national fortune is a "drought year" with little rain; if it is Renzi day, it means that the national fortune is a "flood year" with abundant rain; if it is a "flood year" with abundant rain; If the Wuzi day or the Zi day does not appear, it means that the current national destiny is a "locust earthquake year" prone to locusts or earthquakes; if it is the Gengzi day, it means that the fleeting national destiny is a "turbulent year" prone to wars. (Edited by: Zen Master Dezheng of Shaolin Zen Academy) For example: 1. The first day of the first ten days of the first month of the lunar calendar in 1912 and the sixth day of the first ten days of the first ten days of the lunar calendar of 1949 are both "Jia Zi", which indicates that the national fortune will be celebrated and auspicious. As a result, in the former, Sun Yat-sen was sworn in as the provisional president in Nanjing in 1912, announcing that the Republic of China was established, the Xuantong calendar of the Manchu Qing government was abolished, and 1912 was designated as the first year of the Republic of China; in the latter, Mao Zedong in 1949 In 2001, he declared to the world on the Tiananmen Gate Tower the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the abolition of all unequal treaties signed between the old government and the imperialist powers. 2. The sixth day of the first ten days of the first month of the lunar calendar in 1976 is "Wuzi", and there is no "zi day" in the first ten days of the first ten days of the lunar calendar of 2008, which indicates that the national destiny will be a "locust earthquake year" where locusts or earthquakes are prone to occur; the result , the former was the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, and the latter was the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008.

(Edited by: Shaolin Zen Master Shi Dezheng)