Birthday horoscope, referred to as horoscope, refers to the date of birth of a person according to the stem and branch calendar; year, month, day, hour, four stems and branches, each column has two characters, totaling eight characters. Birthday horoscopes play an important role in Chinese folk beliefs. Ancient Chinese Taoists and astrologers used them to predict a person's destiny.
The horoscope prediction technique continues to develop in practice, from Li Xuzhong’s three pillars, to Xu Ziping’s four pillars, to the four pillars of the sun and moon taught in human biorhythmology, with each step of advancement, They all contain the hard work of scholars and social practitioners of all generations.
To get the correct birth time, ancient Chinese people believed that it was most accurate to measure with a sundial during the day. Clock time is artificial mean time and regional standard time. The "true solar time difference" must be calculated based on the solar terms (solar longitude) and the "local longitude time difference" based on the place of birth to obtain the true astronomical time of birth.
In the almanac, the stems and branches of the year and the day are basically both present, and the celestial stems of the month and hour can be calculated according to the formulas based on the stems and branches of the year and day.
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The five directions refer to the five directions of east, south, west, north and middle. The five elements and the heavenly stems and earthly branches they represent have their own directions. That is, the east is dominated by the wood of A, Yi, Yin, and Mao; the south is dominated by the fire of Bing, Ding, Si, and Wu; the west is dominated by the metal of Geng, Xin, Shen, and You; the north is dominated by the water of Ren, Gui, Hai, and Zi; and the middle side is dominated by the water of Ren, Gui, Hai, and Zi. Mainly the land of Wu, Ji, Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei.
Bazi, that is, birth date, is the date of a person’s birth in the Ganzhi calendar. The year stem and the year branch form the year pillar, the month stem and the month branch form the month pillar, the day stem and the day branch form the day pillar, the hour stem and the hour branch form the hour pillar; one *** four pillars, four stems and four branches* **Eight characters, so it is also called four pillars and eight characters.
Bazi numerology is a science that predicts people’s career, marriage, wealth, studies, health and other matters based on the theories of Ganzhi calendar, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Shensha and other theories. It is also called fortune telling and is a Chinese A time-honored method of fortune telling.
In application, the year pillar or the month pillar is used as the lord of life to make decisions, but most of them use the day stem of the day pillar as the main one. The year stem and branch represent the ancestors, the month stem and branch represent the parents, and the day branch represents oneself. and brothers and sisters (I am a male, Rigan represents brothers, and Rizhi represents sisters; I am female, Rigan represents sisters, and Rizhi represents brothers), and time represents heirs. Furthermore, the Five Elements of Ming Palace, Feiyuan, Grand Luck, Little Luck, and Fleeting Years are used to restrain and resolve evil and evil.