So, what is eight-character fortune telling? To put it simply, the "eight characters" are also called four columns (annual column, moon column, sun column and hour column). Each column has two characters, with heavenly stems above and earthly branches below, which are exactly eight words, so it is called "eight characters". According to legend, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, China's calendar (Lunar Calendar) was jointly formulated by the Yellow Emperor and Fu. Since the era of the Yellow Emperor, it has gone through 78 flowers. A 60-year-old flower is composed of heavenly stems and earthly branches arranged in turn and combined circularly.
The so-called heavenly stems are ten words: nail, B, C, D, E, Ji, Ke, Xin, Ren and Gui, and the earthly branches are twelve words: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. In the arrangement and combination of branches, the heavenly stems start from "A" and the first word "Zi" of the earthly branches is taken in turn, and 60 groups of different branch combinations are obtained, which are called "One Jia Zi (60 years) and One Hua Jia". The lunar calendar is also called the lunar calendar, which can affect agricultural production. Some agricultural proverbs, such as "Xue Ruizhao's bumper year" and "May 969, look up at the willow", are very accurate. The lunar calendar takes the dry branch as the date of the year and month, and the dry branch is the core of the lunar calendar. For example, this year is Shen Jianian, and if Jiaxumu, Shenxujin, Jin Kemu and Jin Mu are at war, there will be disasters, which means that the main branches can be used.
Heavenly stems and earthly branches belongs to Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil, and the five elements generate water, and aquatic wood, where wood makes fire, fire generates soil, and soil generates gold, which goes on and on. Jin Kemu, wood-born soil, soil-born water, aquatic fire, fire-born gold, and so on. In this way, according to the five elements of prosperity to which the birth belongs, prisoners are released, yin and yang are restrained, and the punishment is combined.
When a person breathes the first breath of air after birth, his life is determined by the celestial movement at the time when the first breath of air is taken, that is, the five elements of Yin and Yang to which he belongs. Every moment he spends is his "luck", and the combination of "fate" and "luck" is his life. A person who knows the eight-character prediction can infer his fate according to his five-element change at each time. This is the "eight-character prediction".