1. When the sun's celestial stem is wood (A, B):
Born in spring: fire must be present, water is better, but avoid too much water and too much earth.
Born in summer: must have water to help, avoid too much soil and too much wood.
Born in Autumn: Must have metal to help, but avoid too much metal. Must have earth and fire, but avoid too much water.
Born in winter: Fire is necessary, preferably earth and water.
2． When the sun's celestial stem is fire (Bing, Ding):
Born in spring: At this time, it must be Bing fire or Ding fire, which are mostly good, but avoid too much wood and too much soil.
Born in summer: must have water to help, and most like to have gold.
Born in autumn: Likes trees, avoids water and soil.
Born in winter: Must have wood to help, avoid water and gold, like earth, water and wood.
3. When the day's main heavenly stem is earth (Wu,) Wu:
Born in spring: like fire and wood, like gold but less, avoid too much gold and too much wood.
Born in summer: Like water and metal, avoid wood.
Born in autumn: like fire and wood, avoid metal and water.
Born in winter: likes fire, more likes fire and metal, likes earth and wood.
4. When the sun's celestial stem is gold (geng, xin):
Born in spring: likes to have earth and fire, but is most afraid of not having earth and metal.
Born in summer: must have water to help, avoid too much wood.
Born in autumn: Like wood and fire, avoid too much earth.
Being born in winter: Fire and earth must be present to help. Avoid no fire, as earth contains gold and water instead. Avoid too much wood but no fire.
5. When the sun's celestial stem is water (Ren, Gui):
Born in spring: there must be earth to help, if there is fire, metal, but avoid too much metal.
Born in summer: must have metal to help, avoid too much wood.
Born in autumn: must be supported by metal, avoid too much earth, metal and water, prefer wood and fire.
Born in winter: must be supported by fire, likes lots of water, but avoids lots of gold.
For example, if someone is born in the year of Ding Chou, the month of Guichou, the day of Bingwu, and the time of Dingyou, then the person's birth date and horoscope are: Ding Chou, Guichou, Bingwu, and Dingyou. According to the corresponding relationship between the heavenly stems and earthly branches and the five elements mentioned earlier, Ding belongs to fire, Chou belongs to earth, Gui belongs to water, Chou belongs to earth, Bing belongs to fire, Wu belongs to fire, Ding belongs to fire, and You belongs to metal. The eight characters are four fire and two. Earth, water, and metal, the sun dominates the sky stem and is Bing fire. If you were born in Chou month, which is December in winter, then according to the above table, the most lacking thing is wood, but this horoscope is four fires, the sun dominates the sky stem is very strong, and the lack of wood will not help. many. Like the year, month, and day, if you were born in Wuzi, the eight characters are three fire, three earth, and two water, lacking wood and lacking metal.
Then the birth date cannot be changed. Is there any way to make up for its shortcomings? The ancients believed that a name could do just that. That is, whatever is missing in the eight characters and five elements, the name will make up for it. For example, if wood is missing above, the name can be called wood, or the radical character for wood, such as Tongbai, Rupine, etc. It can also be called wooden things, such as Liangdong. kind. If there is a lack of it, there will be more wood in the name, such as a forest, or even a forest.
It is an ancient custom to name characters after the five elements in their horoscopes. Lu Xun has this description in his novel "Hometown":
I have heard the name Runtu for a long time, and I know that he and I are similar in age, born in the leap month, and the five elements lack earth, so his His father called him Runtu.
This is a typical example. In fact, in ancient times, when a child was born, it was very common for parents to go to a fortune teller to calculate the child's birth date and five elements. When going on a blind date in the future, the birth date and horoscope must not conflict with your spouse's. So there are many people named after it. What kind of name to choose depends on the degree of missing five elements in the eight characters. For example, a person named Liu Song may lack wood in the five elements, but not much. If he is named Liu Songlin, he may lack more wood. If he is named Liu Senlin, he may lack too much. In ancient times, it was common to see people whose names were Sen, Yan, Xin, Miao, and Yao. Generally, one of the five elements was missing in their destiny. If there is a shortage of two kinds, they must be supplemented. For example, the one lacking gold and wood can be called Jingui, the one lacking water and earth can be called Yutian, the one lacking gold and fire can be called Jinyan, etc. Because there are eight characters in the birth date, it is very rare for three of the five elements to be missing.
The above is a method of naming using the Five Elements Theory. Another method that is also very common is to use the principle of the five elements to name the family lineage.
In fact, among the birth horoscopes, no matter whether they are missing or not, there is always one line that is important, and this line controls destiny. Like the example above of a person born on December 13, 1937, he is a fire person. Then there is water life, earth life, metal life, and wood life. According to the fortune teller, this is the person's virtue and the basis for his survival. This statement can be said to originate from the ancients' analysis of dynasty changes. During the Warring States Period, Zou Yan, a native of Qi State, founded the theory of the beginning and end of the Five Virtues. He believed that every dynasty had virtues that matched the five elements, which were the foundation of a country. Later, it was passed down from generation to generation and became a stereotyped theory. For example, the Shang Dynasty was a water virtue, the Han Dynasty was a fire virtue, and the Song Dynasty was a fire virtue, so there are the theories of Yan Liu and Yan Song. Regarding the law of dynasty change, some people hold the theory of mutual generation. For example, the grandfather is born with water, and water is born with wood. The father is born with wood, and wood is born with fire. The son is born with fire. To get a guarantee, it must be matched with it. Take the radical characters of the five elements, father and son, one after another, forming the order of the five elements. For example, Zhu Xi, a Neo-Confucian scholar of the Song Dynasty, had four dots under the character, representing fire. His father's name is Zhu Song, and his son's name is Zhu Shu. Wood makes fire, and fire makes earth, without any chaos. This method of naming the five elements can not only express the paternal blood relationship, but also identify the seniority. Therefore, it is somewhat similar to the Xingsei school of genealogy. It has great ethical significance and was used by many ancients.