What is a good birthday?

Birthday, or eight characters, is actually another way of saying the four pillars of Zhouyi. Four pillars refer to the time when a person was born, that is, year, month, day and hour. When people use "heavenly stem" and "earthly branch" to represent year, month, day and hour respectively, such as Jiazi Year, Shen Bingyue, Xin Ugly Day and Renyin Time. There are two words in each column and eight characters in four columns, so fortune telling is also called "measuring eight characters" According to the relationship between yin and yang attributes and the five elements of heaven and earth, it is inferred that human body is responsible and blessed. However, what I want to talk about here is not how to "measure eight characters", but how to calculate eight characters.

Four-column eight-character arrangement

Four pillars refer to the year, month, day and time when a person was born. Four-column arrangement refers to finding a person's date of birth. It is mainly divided into four steps.

Chronological column

Rosary,

That is, the year of a person's birth is represented by branches.

Note that the dividing line between last year and next year is based on the intersection time of beginning of spring.

It's not the first day of the first month.

If someone was born at 22: 00 on February 4, 2000 in the solar calendar,

Since the handover of the lunar calendar to beginning of spring in 2000 at 20: 32 on February 4, 2000,

So this person's chronology is 2000, not 1999.

Moon column

Moon column,

In other words, branches and branches represent festivals when people are born.

Note that the monthly branch is not divided according to the first day of each month in the lunar calendar.

But according to this festival,

Before the festival is the festival of last month.

After the festival is next month's festival.

January

Yinyue

February

Uzuki

March

Yue Chen

April

Mitsuki

From beginning of spring to tingling.

From fright to Qingming

From Qingming to Long Summer

From Long Summer to Mangzhong

May

Five Sacred Mountains

June

Yue Wei

July

Shen Yue

August

have an appointment

From the awning to the heat

From light summer to early autumn.

From beginning of autumn to Bailu

From White Dew to Cold Dew

September

Xu Yue

October

Serene

November

Ziyue

December

The ugly moon

From cold dew to early winter

From beginning of winter to heavy snow.

From heavy snow to slight cold

From slight cold to beginning of spring.

The significance of the festival: