1. The "eight characters" are also called the four pillars (year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, hour pillar). Each pillar has two characters, with the heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, Ji) on top. , Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui), followed by the Earthly Branches (Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai), there are exactly eight characters, so it is called "Eight Characters" , because its principle is based on Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, it is collectively called "Five Elements Technique" together with "Ziwei Dou Shu" and so on.
2. The horoscope expresses the position of the sun when a person is born. Based on the principles of yin and yang and the five elements, the person’s character and the direction of life presented by this character can be calculated.
3. Used in ancient times Eight-character fortune telling mainly analyzes the balance of a person's five elements "metal, water, wood, fire and earth" in the natal chart. When the five elements are unbalanced, the conflicting force between the five elements is greater, which affects a person's life and rest, causing some unfavorable things to happen. On the contrary, when the five elements are more balanced, everything will go more smoothly.
4. Eight-character fortune telling is also called "Zi Ping Shu". This is because Xu Ziping made a comprehensive summary of the fortune-telling techniques of his predecessors and wrote the first monograph on eight characters - "Yuanhai Ziping". This allowed the Bazi to develop rapidly. Han Yu, a great writer at that time, said that Ziping's judgment on fate was "never missing one or two." Therefore, later generations also called the eight-character fortune telling "Zi Ping Shu".
But I think most fortune tellers are liars. Just read some I Ching and don’t believe it.
Question added: Moon Pillar:
With The twelve solar terms are the exchange points of the month. The beginning of each month is not on the first day of the month but based on the time when the sun enters the festival. For example, the end of June is from the time of Xiaoshu to the beginning of autumn. until.
Sun Pillar:
For the arrangement of the stems and branches of the sun pillar, you can directly check the perpetual calendar to find out who was born on a certain day of a certain year, month, and date. The stems and branches recorded in the perpetual calendar are the sun pillars of the day of birth.
Time pillar:
The time of birth is used as the hour pillar and earthly branch. The time stems are determined based on the day stems of the day of birth. This method is called the Five Rats Escape Sun Rising Time method.
In ancient times, 23:00 was used as the boundary of one day. After the development of modern astronomy, it is considered more reasonable to use 0:00 as the boundary of one day.
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