What do the five elements of fortune telling mean?

The five elements refer to: gold, wood, water, earth and fire.

Xiangsheng: gold-water-wood-fire-earth-gold, Xiangke: gold-wood-earth-water-fire-gold.

Eight characters: it is the year, month, day and hour of birth represented by sixty flowers (also called four pillars), a total of eight words, called eight characters.

Looking at its shortcomings or overall, some people emphasize the column of the column. And the name is missing five lines.