Eight-character (eight-character numerology, eight-character numerology) is a method to infer fate according to eight characters. (Source: Nanfeng Public Welfare College)
The eight characters began in the Tang Dynasty, with Nianzhu as the main body, Nian Ming as the life, supplemented by Yin Na's method to push the life. In the Tang Dynasty, Li changed it to year-based and used four pillars: year, month, day and hour. In the Five Dynasties, Xu Ziping changed to Japanese occupation as my (Japanese master), focusing on the restraint of the five elements between the four pillars and the encounter between punishment and punishment, and carried it forward. The current eight-character divination is based on the Ziping method, so the eight-character numerology is also called Ziping method or Ziping eight-character science.
"Eight Characters" is the most important invention of China's numerology. Verified by China for thousands of years. It can be said that it has experienced great storms and the wisdom baptism of countless sages. After repeated practice and textual research, we have obtained important and valuable information, which can also be said to be a very important microcosm of China's thousands of years of civilization.
According to legend, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, China's calendar (now the lunar calendar) was made by the emperor's family and Fu. Since the era of the Yellow Emperor, there have been 78 flowers and 68 flowers. A 60-year-old flower is composed of heavenly stems and earthly branches arranged in turn and combined circularly.
The eight characters express the position of the sun when a person is born. According to the principle of yin-yang and five elements, we can calculate a person's personality and the life trend presented by this personality. There are many schools of eight-character analysis. Generally speaking, it is divided into traditional school and non-traditional school. Traditional schools are divided into Jiangmen and Zhang Ci. Non-traditional schools include Chen Hanxin School and Infinite Mind School.
In ancient times, eight-character fortune-telling mainly analyzed the balance of five elements in a person's chart. When the five elements are unbalanced, they have a great influence on each other, affecting a person's daily life and making some unpleasant things happen. On the contrary, when the five elements are more balanced, everything will be smoother.
The eight characters are the eight characters of heavenly stems and earthly branches found in the calendar. Ancient scholars of Yin-Yang and Five Elements believed that there were five elements between heaven and earth. So, put heavenly stems and earthly branches on the five elements. The fate of a person's life is scrutinized from the five elements of "rushing punishment and creating peace"
The eight characters come from the Book of Changes, which is a summary of the natural movement law of human destiny by the working people in ancient China. Eight-character fortune-telling means that our destiny is known and predictable, and we can predict the fate by the time of birth. It provides a theoretical basis for us to scientifically reveal the movement law of human life in the natural "qi" of heaven and earth. "Qi" here is a variant of "shua". Heavenly stems are "heavenly stems" and earthly branches are "earthly branches".
Eight-character fortune telling is also called "Zi Shuping". This is because Xu Ziping comprehensively summed up the fortune-telling skills of predecessors and wrote the first eight-character monograph-Yuan Hai Zi Ping. Make the eight characters develop rapidly. Han Yu, a great writer at that time, said that Ziping's way of life was "never lose a thing or two". Therefore, future generations will also call the eight-character fortune-telling "Zi Shuping".
Ten-day stems: A (ji ǐ), B (yǐ), C (bǐng), D(Dǐng), E (w ǐ), J (jǐ), G (G ǜ ng), Xin (xǐn).
Twelve earthly branches: Zi (zǐ), chou (Chou), Yin (yín), Mao (m ǐ o), Chen (chén), Si (s), Wu (), Wei (wèi) and Shen (shēn).