". Birthdates, or eight characters, is actually another way of saying the four pillars in Zhouyi.
Four pillars refer to the time when a person was born, that is, year, month, day and hour. When people use the word "heavenly stem" and "earthly branch" to represent the year, month, day and time respectively, such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, ugly day and Renyin time, etc., it contains the basic state of the celestial body < P > when a person is born. Each column has two characters and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "measuring eight characters".
According to the relationship between the attributes of Yin and Yang and the five elements of heaven and earth, it is inferred that people's body is blamed and blessed. However, what we are going to talk about here is not how to "measure eight characters", but how to calculate eight characters.
In order to get the correct birth time, the day
scale measurement is the most accurate. When the clock time is the artificial average time and regional standard, we must calculate the "apparent solar time difference" according to the solar terms (solar ecliptic) and the "local longitude time difference" according to the place of birth, so as to get the real astronomical time of birth. In the
of the eight characters, the dry branch of the year and the dry branch of the day are continuous and real; The branches of the month and the time are calculated according to the branches of the year and the day, which can be said to be virtual.
At present, it is common to see that the process of transforming the date of birth (calculated by the lunar calendar) into birthdates by a numerologist is called carving eight characters. Then it will be interpreted by numerology Dali. Birthdates is usually used for divination and marriage, and it is still popular among the people. The use of the Chinese character "Birth < P > Chen" in marriage is to predict whether the married life of two people will be happy in the future. Generally speaking, the birthdates of both men and women is born together, which means that the married life is happy, which means that they are unhappy.
Some people regard birthdates's result as very important. If their birthdates is equal, they may give up their marriage with one party. Birthdates, at most, can only reflect the date of a person's birth, so it is not too much to record the time. Some people
use birthdates to tell their fortune, which is very unreliable. Because a person's fate is influenced by many conditions, besides the weather, there are also restrictions on the region where he grew up and the people, plus the difference in opportunities, what proportion can the influence of the time of birth take?