What is the eight characters? How is a person's horoscope determined?

To put it simply, the constellation is to convert the year, month, day and hour of one's birth into the year, month, day and hour of one's life. It is the year, month, day and time represented by branches.

Now we use the Gregorian calendar. What time is it? Then we just need to find the corresponding trunk. For example: March 23, 2006 12: 56, which can be expressed as:

2006: Xu Bing

March: Xin Mao

23rd: Xinhai

12: 56: Wu Jia

This is equivalent to:

Year-Xu Bing

Mao Yuexin

Japan-Xinhai

Time-Wu Jia

It's eight characters. You can check it. Exactly eight words. Sometimes called "four pillars", the eight characters are divided into four groups, each group has two words, one for heavenly stems and the other for earthly branches.

"Eight characters" and "Four pillars" both mean the same thing.

"Wu Jia time" refers to time. In ancient China, there were 12 hours a day, and one hour was two hours. From 23: 00 last night, they were: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

Some places still keep the habit of celebrating birthdays in the lunar calendar, such as the first few days, the tenth day or the twentieth day of 2006. Of course not in his thirties. Because the lunar calendar uses the cycle of the moon, up to 30 days. It will be the first day after 29 or 30.

In the same way, just find the corresponding stalk. For example, the lunar calendar corresponding to the above Gregorian calendar date is February 24th, 2006, and the corresponding four pillars and eight characters are also: Xu Bing, Xinmao, Xinhai and Wu Jia.

The ancient calendar in China is the most advanced in the world, and it is called "three-in-one calendar of yin and yang". Not now. The west wind blows the east wind, using the Gregorian calendar.