Five elements query

In the long and splendid cultural history of our country, our ancestors also invented some theories to explain the movement of the universe and the laws of the world through their own experience. Here, the theory has penetrated into all aspects of natural science and social life, including naming. One of the most important theories is five lines of gossip's theory of Yin and Yang. Although there are not many people named like this now, it is necessary to understand the rich and varied naming methods of the ancients.

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, prospered 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 forms of expression 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 worry, and five permanent members. The five elements have the order of generation, mutual generation and mutual restraint. The order of formation is wood, fire, earth, gold and water. The order of mutual development is wood fire, fire soil, native gold, golden water and aquatic wood. The order of mutual recognition is: water can overcome fire, and fire can overcome gold, Jin Kemu, Muketu and Tuke water.

The combination of Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory became the theory of ancient people 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. I want 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 the date of birth to calculate fate. The so-called birthday is the year, month, day and time of birth, expressed in heavenly stems and earthly branches. In the pre-Qin period, people only used heavenly stems and earthly branches to remember days, but later, heavenly stems and earthly branches could be used to remember days, months and days. There are ten branches in the sky: A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Man and Ghost. 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 sixties. The year, month, day and hour of birth are represented by the cooperation between heaven and earth, which happens to have eight words, so it is called the birthday, and the fortuneteller also calls it the four pillars of human beings. Birthdays also have five elements. During the ten days, 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 and Ugly, but they don't belong to earth. In this way, according to the date of birth, you can calculate what is missing in your life. The ancients believed that fate would flourish only if the five elements were indispensable.

It is not easy for modern people to judge their birthdays, because most people remember that their birthdays are in the solar calendar, that is, the Gregorian calendar. The following is how to calculate the birthday according to the birthday of the solar calendar.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was born in, said it was best to find. Its year is the year of the lunar calendar, from the first day to New Year's Eve. Just check the calendar. If you don't have the calendar of that year, you can backdate it according to this year's calendar. After knowing heavenly stems and earthly branches this year, you can refer to the 60-year-old table in the second section of Chapter 2 of this book, and then push it backwards in turn. For example, New Year's Eve from 1998 to 1999 is the year of Wuyin, so it can be inferred that 1997 is the year of Ding Chou, 1996 is the year of Bingzi, 1995 is the year of Yihai, and 1994.

It is not difficult to calculate heavenly stems and earthly branches's birth month. The lunar calendar takes November as the next month, December as the ugly month and January as the silver moon. Next are Uzuki in February, Chen Yue in March, Mitsuki in April, noon in May, moonless in June, Shen Yue in July, Unitary month in August, Garrison month in September and Moon in October. But1February mentioned in the phase is different, which is marked by 24 solar terms. Every year, from the day of beginning of spring to the day of surprise, it is silver moon in January; From the day of fright to Qingming, it is February in Uzuki; From Qingming to long summer, it is March in Chen Yue; From long summer to awning, it is Mitsuki in April; It is the afternoon of May from the awn to the young tree. From the summer heat to beginning of autumn, it is the end of June; From beginning of autumn to the Millennium, it is July; From the Millennium to the cold dew, it is August; From the cold dew to beginning of winter, it is 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 month of birth. What should I do about the moon? Here is a table. The first row is the annual heavenly stems, and the column is the monthly earthly branches. The following table lists the dry days of each month:

Yuejia hexyl heptyl propyl octyl butyl nonadecyl decyl decyl

year

Yi Yin ice Yin Wu silver more silver kernel silver plus silver.

Mao Er Ding Mao sent Mao Xin Mao Gui Mao Yi Mao.

Chen San Chen Wu Chen Geng Ren Chen Chen Jia Chen Bing

Si Si Hingis Si Gui Yi Gi Si Ding Si

Wu Gengwu was appointed as Wu Jia Wu Bing Wu Wu Wu.

Non-hexaoctyl, non-decyl, non-b, non-butyl, not yet.

Shen Qi Ren Shen Shen Jia Bing Shen Wu Shen Geng Shen

You are right, you are right, you are right, you are right, you are right.

Defend the nine armor, defend the three armor, defend the five armor, defend the Geng armor, and defend the unfinished armor.

Shi hai yi hai ding hai Ji hai Xin hai GUI hai

Ziyi Woods Bingzi Gengzi Renzi Jiazi

Ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly.

For example, in the year of Jiazi and Jiayin, the dryness in January is C and C, in March it is Ding Mao, in March it is Chen Wu, and so on, and the months of dryness in successive years are the same as those in Jiatian.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches's birthday calculation is very complicated. It was decided by ancient astrologers on a certain day, and then pushed down in turn. If you want to know your birthday, you can only look up the perpetual calendar. Compared with the lunar calendar, it is a perpetual calendar. If you don't know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you can check the perpetual calendar.

The trunk of life can be deduced from the trunk of birthday. In ancient times, a day was divided into twelve hours, corresponding to the twelve branches of the earth, but now two hours are one hour. It is midnight to morning 1, ugly to 3, Yin Shi to 5, noon to 1 13, untimely to 13, and 15. These are the earthly branches of life. The dryness of life is calculated from the dryness of birthday. There are the following formulas:

A adds a, b, g, and c is the first one.

Bingxin started Wuzi, Dingren Gengzi lived,

When you push a scorpion, time will be real.

This formula is used for operators. That is to say, every birthday is a day when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday, when it's a birthday and when it's a birthday. If the son of this day is a boxer, then ugly is ugly, cloudy is non-cloudy, and so on.

Knowing the date of birth, we can infer the situation of the five elements. On birthdays, the sun's heavenly stems represent themselves; It is called the Lord of the sun. The earthly branches of this day are spouses or brothers and sisters. The heavenly stems of the month represent the father and the earthly branches represent the mother. In 2008, heavenly stems represented my grandfather and earthly branches represented my grandmother. Heavenly stems represent fathers and earthly branches represent women. The situation of the five elements is to judge the relationship between the other seven heavenly stems and earthly branches and the heavenly stems of the sun. There is also 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 for the sun to be too small or too much, but it is not good for many people to live with too many sun owners. Then, judging what is missing or more in the eight-character line needs careful analysis. We will give you a simple method, you just need to check according to the Lord and the Lord's season.

1. When the sun is dry (A and 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 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: there must be fire to help, preferably soil and water.

2. When the sun is dry and the fire is burning (c and d):

Born in spring: It must be C fire or Ding Huo at this time, which is 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: there must be wood to help, avoid water and gold, and like earth, 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 seldom. I avoid gold and wood.

Born in summer: I prefer water and gold to wood.

Born in autumn: I like fire, wood, gold and water.

Born in winter: I like fire, prefer fire and gold, and I like earth and wood.

4. When the sun is dry, it is golden (Geng and Xin):

Born in spring: I like earth and fire, but I don't like earth and gold.

Born in summer: you need water to help you, and avoid many trees.

Born in autumn: I like wood and fire, but I don't like earth.

Born in winter: there must be fire and earth to help each other. Avoid no fire, but there is gold and water in the soil. Avoid wood without fire.

5. When the sun is dry and the sky is water (nonyl, decyl):

Born in spring: there must be soil help, if there is fire, gold, but avoid more gold.

Born in summer: there must be gold to help, avoid many trees.

Born in autumn: there must be gold to help, avoid soil and gold, and like wood and fire.

Born in winter: there must be fire to help, love water more, but avoid gold more.

For example, if someone was born in the year of Ding Chou, the month of Gui Chou, Wu Bingri and Ding Youshi, the birth dates of this person are: Ding Chou, Gui Chou, Wu Bing and Ding You. According to the correspondence between heavenly stems and earthly branches and the five elements mentioned above, 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, the eight characters are four fires, two soils, one water and one gold, and the sun is dry and C is fire, which was born in ugly month, that is, December in winter. According to the table above, what is lacking most is wood, but this role is four fires, and the sun is very dry. Such as year, month and day, but when he was born in Wuzi, the eight characters were three fires, three soils and two waters, lacking wood and gold.

So birthdays can't be changed. What can be done to remedy its shortcomings? The ancients thought that names could do this. That is to say, what is missing in the eight characters and five elements, what is added to the name, for example, the above-mentioned lack of wood, the name can be called wood, or the words next to wood, such as Tongbai and Rusong, or wooden things, such as Liang Dong, if there are many trees missing, then there will be many trees in the name, such as Woods and even forests.

It is an ancient custom to name after the five elements in the eight characters. Lu Xun described this in his novel "Hometown":

I have heard the name "leap soil" for a long time. I know that he and I are the same age as leap moon, and the five elements are short of soil, so his father called him "leap soil".

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 calculate the child's date of birth and the five elements. This birthday will not conflict with her spouse in future dating. So there are many people named after it. What kind of name to choose depends on the degree of missing five elements in the eight characters. For example, Liu Song may lack wood in the five elements, but not much. For example, Liu Songlin is short of wood, and for example, Liu Senlin is short of wood. In ancient times, some people named Sen, Yan, Xin, Miao and Yao were very common, but they usually missed one of the five elements. If both are insufficient, we should make up for them. For example, people who lack gold and wood can be called Jingui, people who lack water and soil can be called Tian Yu, and people who lack gold and fire can be called Jin Yan. Because birthdays have eight characters, the five elements rarely lack a third character.

The above is a method of naming with the theory of five elements. Another method is also very common, that is, using the five elements principle to name the family lineage. In fact, in a birthday, no matter what is missing or not, there is always a main line, which will dominate the fate. Just like the above example, a person was born in 1937 12 13, and he is the 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 man, which is the basis of his survival. This statement can be said to originate from the analysis of ancient dynasties. During the Warring States Period, there was a Qi man, Zou Yan, who founded the theory of "Five Virtues at the Beginning". He believed that every dynasty had virtues that matched the five elements, which was the foundation of the country. Later, it was handed down from generation to generation and became a rigid theory. For example, the Shang Dynasty was the virtue of water, while the Han Dynasty was the virtue of fire, and the Song Dynasty was the virtue of fire, so there was the saying that Liu and Song Dynasties were mutually inflammatory. Some people hold the theory of mutual development about the law of dynasty change. For example, my grandfather was born with water, aquatic wood, my father was born with wood to make a fire, and my son is the fire of life. To get a guarantor, it is necessary to match it, take the words of five actors, and father and son are one after another, forming the order of five elements. For example, Zhu, a philosopher in the Song Dynasty, had four words, namely fire. His father is Zhu Song and his son is Zhu Shu. Wood makes a fire, and fire is born in soil, which is not chaotic at all. This method of naming the five elements can not only express the paternal blood relationship, but also check the generation of travelers, so it is somewhat similar to the generation of genealogy, which has important ethical significance and was used by many ancient people.