The theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements came into being as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Yin-yang theory contains simple dialectical thinking, which holds that everything has two contradictory aspects, which can be summarized as Yin and Yang respectively. For example, the south of the mountain is yang and the north of the mountain is yin; The north of the water is yang, and the south of the water is yin; The surface of leaves is yang, and the back is yin; Male is yang, female is yin; The sun is Yang, and the moon is also called Taiyin ... Yin and Yang are mutually transformed and endless, and the image graph that shows this law is Taiji diagram. In the Taiji diagram, when Yang is at its peak, Yin has quietly appeared; When the sun is at its peak, it has quietly appeared, flourished and declined, and this philosophy is still very profound.
the theory of five elements was also summed up by the ancients from their life practice. They believe that everything in the century is composed of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which have different manifestations in different things. For example, five colors: green, red, yellow, white and black, five tones: horn, sign, palace, business and feather, five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty, five internal organs: liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney, and five emotions: joy, joy, desire, anger and sorrow, and five permanent members. The five elements have the order of generation, mutual generation and mutual restraint. The order of generation is wood, fire, earth, gold and water. The order of mutual development is wood fire, fire earth, native gold, gold water and aquatic wood. The order of mutual recognition is: water can overcome fire, fire can overcome gold, Jin Kemu, Muketu and Tuke water.
The combination of Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory has become a theory for the ancients to explain various natural and life phenomena. Divination and fortune telling are activities to predict the future. In ancient times, when productivity was low, it was more difficult to grasp personal destiny, and I wanted to know more. The theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements is used to explain a person's fate. One of the main methods is to use birthdates to calculate fate. The so-called birthdates is the year, month, day and time of birth expressed by heavenly stems and earthly branches. In the pre-Qin period, people only used heavenly stems and earthly branches to remember the day, but later, heavenly stems and earthly branches could be used to remember the day, month and day. There are ten branches in heaven: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. There are twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The combination of the two can produce sixty units, which are called sixty jiazi. The year, month, day, and hour of the birth were expressed by the cooperation of heaven and earth, which happened to have eight words, so it was called birthdates, and the physiognomist also called it the four pillars of human beings. There are also five elements in birthdates. In the ten days of dry, A and B belong to wood, C and D belong to fire, E and E belong to soil, G and Xin belong to gold, and Ren and Gui belong to water. Among the twelve earthly branches, Yin and Mao belong to wood, Si and Wu belong to fire, Shen and You belong to gold, Hai and Zi belong to water, Chen, Shu, Ugly, but not to earth. In this way, according to birthdates, you can calculate what is missing in your life. The ancients believed that fate would flourish only if all five elements were available.
For modern people, it is not easy to judge their birthdates, because most people remember their birthdays by the solar calendar, that is, the Gregorian calendar. So here is how to calculate birthdates from the birthday of the solar calendar.
heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was born in, said it was best to find it. Its year is the year of the lunar calendar, from the first day to New Year's Eve. Just look up the calendar. If there is no calendar of that year, you can reverse it according to this year's calendar. After knowing this year's heavenly stems and earthly branches, you can refer to the 6-year-old table in the second section of Chapter 2 of this book, and then push it backwards in turn. For example, the New Year's Eve from 1998 to 1999 was Wuyin year, so it can be inferred that 1997 was Ding Chou year, 1996 was Bingzi year, 1995 was Yihai year, and 1994 was Jiashu year.
It's not difficult to calculate the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the month. The lunar calendar takes November as the sub-month, December as the ugly month, and January as the Yinyue. The following are Uzuki in February, Chenyue in March, Mitsuki in April, Noon in May, No Month in June, Shenyue in July, Unitary Month in August, Garrison Month in September and Haiyue Month in October. But the December mentioned by the phase is different, which is marked by the 24 solar terms. Every year, from the date of beginning of spring to the date of surprise, it is Yinyue in January; from the date of surprise to Qingming, it is Uzuki in February; from Qingming to long summer, it is Chenyue in March; from long summer to Mangzhong, it is Mitsuki in April; from Mangzhong to Xiaoshu, it is the afternoon of May; from Xiaoshu to beginning of autumn, it is the end of June; from beginning of autumn to Bailu, it is the month of July; from Bailu to Cold Dew, it is the month of August; from Cold Dew to beginning of winter, it is the month of September; and from winter to heavy snow is October. In this way, as long as you know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you will know the earthly branch of the birth month. What should I do about the moon? Here is a table, the first row is the heavenly stems of each year, and the vertical column is the earthly branches of each month. The table lists the heavenly stems of each month:
month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, year, year, year, year, year, year, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, month, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. For all the years in which A is the heavenly stem, such as the year of Jiayin, the heavenly stem in January is C, which is the month of Bingyin, March is the month of Ding Mao, March is the month of Wuchen, and so on, and the heavenly stem in the months that have been the same as those in Jiatian.
The calculation of heavenly stems and earthly branches's birthday is very complicated. It was decided by ancient physiognomists on a certain day, and then pushed down in turn. If you want to know the birthday, you can only look up the perpetual calendar, and it is a perpetual calendar compared with the yin and yang calendars. If you don't know how much your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you can check the perpetual calendar.
the trunk and branch at birth can be derived from the trunk and branch at birthday. In ancient times, a day was divided into twelve hours, corresponding to the twelve branches of the earth, just now two hours is an hour. From 23: midnight to 1: am, it is ugly, from 3: to 5: is yinshi, from 11: to 13: is noon, from 13: to 15: is untimely, from 15: to 17: is bidding, from 17: to 19: is unitary, from 19: to 21: is garrison, and from 21: to 23: is haishi. These are the earthly branches of life. The dryness of life is calculated from the dryness of birthday. There is the following formula:
A has been added to A, B Geng C is the first,
C Xin starts from Wu Zi, Ding Ren Geng Zi lives,
E Gui pushes Ren Zi, and the time is sure to be true.
this formula is used for operators. That is to say, every birthday is a day when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday Knowing the nature of the child, the rest of the time can be analogized according to the 6-child table. If the son of this day is a boxer, then the ugly time is the ugly time, the yin time is the non-yin time, and so on.
once you know birthdates, you can infer the situation of the five elements. In birthdates, the heavenly stems of the sun represent themselves; It's called the Lord of the sun. The earthly branches of the day are spouses or brothers and sisters. The heavenly stems of the month represent the father and the earthly branches represent the mother. In 28, the heavenly stems represented my grandfather and the earthly branches represented my grandmother. When the heavenly stems represent the father, the earthly branches represent the women. The situation of the five elements is to judge the relationship between the other seven heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Japanese Lord Tiangan. There is the so-called six gods theory, which is more complicated. Generally speaking, as long as the five elements in the eight characters are even, it is a good life. It is not good if the sun's heavenly stems are too small or too many, but it is not good if there are too many sun-masters and many people give birth to them. Then, judging what is missing or what is more in the eight-character line requires careful analysis. We will give you a simple method, and you just need to check it according to the seasons of the Lord and the Lord.
1. When the sun is dry (A, B):
Born in spring: It is better to have fire and water, but avoid too much water and too much soil.
born in summer: you must have water to help you, and avoid too much soil and too much wood.
born in autumn: you must have gold to help you, but avoid too much gold. You must have soil and fire, but avoid too much water.
born in winter: fire is necessary, preferably soil and water.
2. When the sun is burning (C and D):
Born in spring: It must be C or Ding Huo at this time, mostly good, but avoid too much wood and soil.
Born in summer: You must have water to help you, and gold is your favorite.
Born in autumn: I like wood, but I don't like water and soil.
born in winter: you must have wood to help you, avoid water and gold, and like soil, water and wood.
3. When the sun is dry and the earth is dry (e, e):
Born in spring: I like fire and wood, I like gold but little, and I avoid gold and wood.
Born in summer: I prefer water and gold to wood.
Born in autumn: I like fire and wood, but I avoid gold and water.
Born in winter: I like fire, more like fire and gold, and I like soil and wood.
4. When the heavenly stems are golden (Geng, Xin):
Born in spring: I like earth and fire, but I don't want earth and gold.
born in summer: you must have water to help you, and avoid more trees.
born in autumn: I like wood and fire, but I don't like soil.
born in winter: fire and soil must help each other. Avoid no fire, but there is gold and water in the soil. Avoid many trees without fire.
5. When the sun is dry and the sky is water (nonyl, cassia):
Born in spring: There must be soil to help. If there is fire, gold is needed, but avoid more gold.
born in summer: you must have gold to help you, and avoid many trees.
born in autumn: you must have gold to help you, and avoid soil, gold and water, like wood and fire.
Born in winter: You must have fire to help you. You like water more, but you should avoid gold more.
For example, if someone was born in the year of Ding Chou, the month of Gui Chou, the day of Bing Wu, and the time of Ding You, then the birthdates of this person is: Ding Chou, Gui Chou, Bing Wu, and Ding You. According to the correspondence between heavenly stems and earthly branches and the five elements mentioned earlier, Ding belongs to fire, Ugly belongs to soil, decyl belongs to water, Ugly belongs to soil, C belongs to fire, noon belongs to fire, Ding belongs to fire, unitary belongs to gold, and the eight characters are four fires, two soils, one water and one gold. The sun is dry for fire C, and it was born in the ugly month, that is, December in winter. According to the above table, the most lacking is wood, but this character is four fires, and the sun is very dry. Such as year, month and day, but when born in Wuzi, the eight characters are three fires, three soils and two waters, lacking wood and gold.
So birthdates cannot be changed. What can be done to remedy its shortcomings? The ancients thought that names could do this. That is, what is missing in the eight characters and five elements, what is added in the name, for example, the above-mentioned lack of wood, the name can be called wood, or the words beside wood, such as Tongbai and Rusong, or wooden things, such as Liang Dong. If there are many missing trees, there will be many trees in the name, such as Woods or even forests.
it's an ancient custom to name it after the five elements in the eight characters. In his novel Hometown, Lu Xun wrote:
I heard the name Runtu long ago, and I knew that he and I were born in a leap month, and the five elements were short of soil, so 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 Mr. Shu to work out the child's birthdates and five elements. When dating in the future, this birthdates will not conflict with her spouse. So there are also many people named after it. What kind of name to choose depends on the degree of the lack of five elements in the eight characters. Liu Song, for example, may be short of wood in five elements, but not much. Liu Songlin, for example, is short of wood, and Liu Senlin, for example, is short of wood. In ancient times, some people with the names of Sen, Yan, Xin, Miao and Yao were common, but they generally missed one of the five elements. If there is a shortage of both, we should make up for them. For example, those who lack gold and wood can be called Jingui, those who lack water and soil can be called Tian Yu, and those who lack gold and fire can be called Jinyan. Because birthdates has eight characters, it's rare that the five elements are missing the third.
the above is a method of naming with the theory of five elements. Another method is also very common, that is, to name the family lineage by using the principle of five elements. In fact, in birthdates, no matter what is lacking or not, there is always one line that is the main one, and this line will dominate the fate. Like the above example of a person born on December 13th, 1937, he is fire of life. Then there are water life, earth life, gold life and wood life. According to the fortune teller, this is the virtue of this person, which is the basis for his survival. This statement can be said to originate from the analysis of the ancient dynasties. During the Warring States Period, there was a Qi native, Zou Yan, who founded the theory of "Five Virtues at the Beginning", and believed that every dynasty had virtues that matched the five elements, which was the foundation of the country. Later, it was passed down from generation to generation and became a stereotyped theory. For example, the Shang Dynasty was a virtue of water, while the Han Dynasty was a virtue of fire, and the Song Dynasty was a virtue of fire, so there was a saying that Liu and Song were inflamed. Regarding the law of dynasty change, some people hold the theory of mutual development. For example, my grandfather was born with water, aquatic wood, my father was born with wood, wood made a fire, and my son was fire of life. To get a guarantor, it is necessary to match it, take the word on the side of the five acts, and the father and son are one after another, forming the order of the five elements. For example, Zhu Xi, a Neo-Confucianism scholar in the Song Dynasty, has four words, namely fire. His father's name is Zhu Song, and his son's name is Zhu Shu. Wood makes a fire, and the fire is born in the earth, which is not chaotic at all. This method of naming the five elements can not only express the paternal blood relationship, but also look at the generation of the traveler, so it is somewhat similar to the generation of the genealogy, which is very ethical and has been used by many ancient people.