Four pillars: Four pillars refer to the time when a person was born, that is, year, month, day and hour. Because it is four, it is called four pillars.
Eight Characters: The year, month, day and hour of birth are represented by heavenly stems and earthly branches, and each column contains eight characters, so it is called eight characters. For example, a person's eight characters: Jiazi Year, Bingshen Year, Xin Chou Year, Ren Year. As we can see, birthdates is the time when a person was born, which is expressed in heavenly stems and earthly branches.
Eight-character arrangement: listing a person's birth time with heavenly stems and earthly branches is the eight-character arrangement. Such as: Jiazi Year, Bingzi, Xin Chou Ri, Ren.
Measuring eight characters: analyzing the relationship between a person's eight-character life figures, judging the strength of life figures, finding out the favorite gods, and further understanding a person's innate information, such as poverty, wealth, misfortune and happiness, is measuring eight characters.
Because a birthday contains the basic state of a celestial body when a person is born. 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.
Four-column eight-character arrangement
The arrangement of four pillars is the first step of pushing, that is, the four pillars are arranged according to the date of birth. Because the four pillars are composed of eight branches, they are also called eight-character arrangement. The arrangement of the four pillars on the date of birth is introduced below.
Chronological column
Chronicle, that is, the year when a person was born, is expressed in heavenly stems and earthly branches.
The division of a year is based on the beginning of spring, not on the first day of the first lunar month as ordinary people say. For example, someone was born on the third day of the first lunar month on 1998. Since beginning of spring on 1998 is 8: 53 on the eighth lunar month, this person's age column is Ding Chou in 1997, not Wuyin in 1998.
Moon column
The moon column, that is, the month when a person was born, is represented by heavenly stems and earthly branches.
The division of each month is based on festivals, with the first day of each month of the lunar calendar as the dividing line. Before the festival, there are festivals of last month, and after the festival, there are festivals of next month.
In the calendar represented by heavenly stems and earthly branches, a year begins with silver moon and ends with an ugly month.