Birthday, or eight characters, is actually another way of saying the four pillars of Zhouyi. Four pillars refer to the time when a person was born, that is, year, month, day and hour. When people use "heavenly stem" and "earthly branch" to represent year, month, day and hour respectively, such as Jiazi Year, Shen Bingyue, Xin Ugly Day and Renyin Time.
There are two words in each column and eight characters in four columns, so fortune telling is also called "measuring eight characters" According to the relationship between yin and yang attributes and the five elements of heaven and earth, it is inferred that human body is responsible and blessed.
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As we all know, the ancients used heavenly stems and earthly branches to date the year, and a person's birthday actually used the eight Chinese characters heavenly stems and earthly branches to date the year: year, month, day and hour. Each of the four words is represented by a heavenly stem and a earthly branch, so there are eight words, namely, four heavenly stems and four earthly branches.
For example, 20 17, according to the stem, is Ding Younian, Ding is heavenly stem, Unitary is earthly branch, Ding is fire, and Unitary is gold. Find out the five elements of heavenly stems and earthly branches in the year of birth, and then find out the branches of month, day and time, and then find out all the five elements of birth.
Therefore, it depends on whether there are five elements missing in a person's horoscope, that is, it is necessary to analyze whether there are corresponding elements missing in the four heavenly stems and earthly branches that make up the horoscope. For example, these four heavenly stems and four earthly branches do not contain five elements of water, that is, the eight-character water shortage or the hit water shortage.