Birthday horoscopes, or eight characters, are actually another way of saying the four pillars in the Zhouyi terminology. The four pillars refer to the time of birth, namely year, month, day and hour. Humans use one word each for heavenly stems and earthly branches to express year, month, day and time, such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, Xinchou day, Renyin time, etc. Each column has two characters, and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "testing eight characters". According to the relationship between the heavenly stems, earthly branches, yin and yang and the five elements' attributes, we can speculate on the faults, misfortunes and blessings of the human body. But what we are going to talk about here is not how to "test the horoscope", but how to calculate the horoscope. Four pillars and eight characters are arranged. The four pillars refer to the year, month, day and time of a person's birth. The arrangement of the four pillars refers to finding out a person's birth date and horoscope. It is mainly carried out in four steps.
The year column is the year column, that is, the year a person is born is represented by the stems and branches. Note that the dividing line between the previous year and the next year is divided by the intersection of the beginning of spring, not by the first day of the first lunar month. For example, someone He was born at 22:17 on February 4, 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Since the beginning of spring in the year 2000 in the lunar calendar is at 20:32 in the Gregorian calendar, February 4, 2000, this person's year pillar is Gengchen in 2000, not 1999. Already Mao. Arrange the moon pillars and the moon pillars, that is, use the stems and branches to indicate the festival of the year and month in which a person was born. Note that the dividing line between the lunar stems and branches is not based on the first day of each month in the lunar calendar, but based on the festival, and the month before the festival is the previous month. After the festival, it will be the festival of the next month. The arrangement of sun pillars has been from the 2nd day of February in the third year of Lu Yingong (722 B.C.) to the present day. Our country’s zodiac signs have never been interrupted. This is what human society has known so far. The only longest method of recording dates. The day column uses the stems and branches of the lunar calendar to represent the day a person was born. The stems and branches record the day in a cycle every sixty days. Due to the different sizes of months and leap years, the daily stems and branches need to be looked up in the perpetual calendar. In addition, the dividing line between days is divided by sub-hour, that is, before eleven o'clock is the Hai hour of the previous day, and after eleven o'clock is the sub-hour of the next day. Do not think that midnight is the sub-hour of the day. Breaking point. Arrange the hour column and the hour column, and use the stems and branches to represent the hour of birth. An hour spans two hours in the lunar calendar, so there are twelve hours in a day.