What time is it? "Wu" should be "Xu"
In ancient times, the day and night were divided into twelve hours, namely: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Each hour is equivalent to two modern hours. Zi hour 23-1 o'clock, Chou hour 1-3 o'clock, Yin hour 3-5 o'clock, Mao hour 5-7 o'clock, Chen hour 7-9 o'clock, Si hour 9-11 o'clock, Noon hour 11-13 o'clock, Noon hour 13-15 o'clock, Shen time is from 15 to 17 o'clock, You time is from 17 to 19 o'clock, Xu time is from 19 to 21 o'clock, and Hai time is from 21 to 23 o'clock.
What time does the Shen Shi mentioned in the birthday horoscope refer to? The birth date or eight characters are actually another way of saying the four pillars in the Zhouyi terminology. The four pillars refer to the time of birth, namely year, month, day and hour. Humans use one word each for heavenly stems and earthly branches to express year, month, day and time, such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, Xinchou day, Renyin time, etc. Each column has two characters, and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "testing eight characters". According to the relationship between the heavenly stems, earthly branches, yin and yang and the five elements' attributes, we can speculate on the faults, misfortunes and blessings of the human body. But what we are going to talk about here is not how to "test the horoscope", but how to calculate the horoscope.
The four pillars are arranged in eight characters
The four pillars refer to the year, month, day and time of a person's birth. The arrangement of the four pillars refers to finding out a person's birth date and horoscope. It is mainly carried out in four steps.