The role of earthly branches and heavenly stems

It is not easy for modern people to judge their date of birth, because most people remember that their birthday is in the solar calendar, that is, the Gregorian calendar. So here is how to calculate the date of birth from the birthday of the solar calendar.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was born in, said it was best to find. Its year is the year of the lunar calendar, from the first day to New Year's Eve. Just check the calendar. If you don't have the calendar of that year, you can reverse it according to this year's calendar. After knowing heavenly stems and earthly branches this year, you can refer to the 60-year-old table in the second section of Chapter 2 of this book, and then push it backwards in turn. For example, New Year's Eve from 1998 to 1999 is the year of Wuyin, so it can be inferred that 1997 is the year of Ding Chou, 1996 is the year of C Zi, 1995 is the year of B Hai, and 1994 is the year of A.

It is not difficult to calculate the birth month of the main branch. The lunar calendar takes November as the second month, December as the ugly month, and January as silver moon. Followed by Uzuki in February, Chen Yue in March, Mitsuki in April, noon in May, moonless in June, Shen Yue in July, unitary month in August, garrison month in September, and 10 sea month. But unlike December, it is marked by 24 solar terms. Every year, from the day of beginning of spring to the day of surprise, it is silver moon in January; From the day of surprise to Qingming, it is Uzuki in February; From Qingming to long summer, it is Chen Yue in March; From the long summer to the middle, it is Mitsuki in April; From the boundless to the small tree, it is the afternoon of May; It's the end of June when the summer heat arrives in beginning of autumn. From beginning of autumn to the Millennium, it is July; From the Millennium to the cold dew, it is the month of August; From cold dew to early winter, it is September; And from winter to heavy snow is October. In this way, as long as you know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you will know the earthly branch of your birth month. What should I do about the moon? Here is a table, the first row is the heavenly stems of each year, and the column is the earthly branches of each month. The following table lists the dry days of each month:

Yuejia hexyl heptyl propyl octyl butyl nonadecyl decyl decyl

year

Yi Yin ice Yin Wu silver more silver kernel silver plus silver.

Mao Er Ding Mao sent Mao Xin Mao Gui Mao Yi Mao.

Chen San Chen Wu Chen Geng Ren Chen Chen Jia Chen Bing

Si Si Hingis Si Gui Yi Gi Si Ding Si

Wu Wu Gengwu Wu Jia Wu Bing Wu Wu Wu Wu.

Not hexaoctyl, not decyl, not b, not d, not yet.

Magical Renshen Shen Jia Bingshen Wushen Gengshen

You are right, you are right, you are right, you are right, you are right.

Keep nine armor, keep three armor, keep five armor, keep Geng armor, and keep even armor.

Shi hai yi hai ding hai Ji hai Xin hai GUI hai

Zi Yi Wu Zi Bing Zi Geng Zi Zi Jia Zi

Ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly.

For example, in Jiazi and Jiayin years, the dryness in January is C, C, March is Ding Mao, March is Chen Wu, and so on. The dryness in successive years of drought is the same as that in Jiatian.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches's birthday calculation is very complicated. It was decided by the ancient fortune teller on a certain day, and then pushed down in turn. If you want to know your birthday, you can only look up the perpetual calendar, which is a perpetual calendar compared with the yin-yang calendar. If you don't know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you can check the perpetual calendar.

As early as 2697 BC, when the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China, founded the country, heavenly stems and earthly branches made a great fuss about exploring the qi of heaven and earth and the five elements (water, fire and earth in Jin Mu), and started the ten-day work of A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, and the work of Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu and Gui.

In the China calendar, the time for the moon to orbit the earth once (29.5306 days) is regarded as January, and the time for the earth to orbit the sun once (365.438+09 days) is regarded as a year. In order to make the average number of days in a year consistent with the number of days in the tropical year, a leap month is set up. According to records, in the 6th century BC, China began to coordinate the lunar calendar with the solar calendar by the method of 19.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches is a symbol designed for the convenience of 60 decimal places when people built calendars in the past. For ancient China people, the existence of heavenly stems and earthly branches was as simple as Arabic numerals. Later, these symbols were applied to maps, directions and time (time axis and space axis), so these numbers were endowed with more and more meanings.

The ancients (Yellow Emperor) observed Wang Shuo's moon and found that the two moons were about 59 days. 1February is generally more than 354 days (similar to the length of a tropical year), so the ancients got the concept of 12 months in a year. In the collocation diary method (ten-day dry), the yin-yang calendar was produced and developed in heavenly stems and earthly branches; It should be more mature in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, referred to as Ganzhi for short, is used to arrange year numbers and dates in the summer calendar.

Calendars use heavenly stems and earthly branches to arrange year numbers and dates. There are ten words in Tiangan, so it is also called "Ten Dry". The order of arrangement is: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost; There are twelve characters in the earthly branch, which are arranged in the following order: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Among them, A, C, E, G and N are yang dryness, while B, D, J, Xin and Gui are yin dryness. Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen and Xu are the Yang branches, while Ugliness, Mao, Si, Wei, You and Hai are the Yin branches.

Dominate a stem with land, arrange them, with the heavenly stem in front, the earthly branch behind, the heavenly stem starting from the nail, the earthly branch starting from the child, the yang stem against the yang branch, and the yin stem against the yin branch (the yang stem against the yin branch and the yin stem against the yang branch), and get a cycle of 60 years. It is called "Sixty Jiazi" or "Flower Jiazi". In the past, China people used to mark the year, month, day and time with a cycle of 60 years.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches's 22 symbols are intricate and orderly, full of harmony and laws. It shows the law of natural operation, the interaction of real-time (time) space (orientation) and the result of interaction of Yin and Yang. China calendar contains the thought of Yin-Yang and Five Elements and the law of natural circulation.

Year: one year for each branch, after 60 branches, start from the beginning and repeat. Starting from Jiazi, it is called Jiazi or Huahua Jiazi 60 years later. It's called the chronology of cadres and branches.

Month: the first month begins in Yin, and the branches of the earth are fixed in each month, and then they are combined with the sky in turn; From the first month to the third month of the first year, February is Ding Maoyue and March is Chen Wu. Jiazi month to Guihai month, Jiazi 60, exactly five years.

Day: Starting from Jiazi Day, arranged in order, the 60th day happens to be a trunk-branch cycle.

Time: Starting from Jiazi, but the branch of punctuality is fixed, twelve hours a day.