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What did heavenly stems and earthly branches say about the date of birth?

As the name implies, eight characters are composed of eight words, which are four groups: year, month and day. Two words in each group.

The first word in each group is heavenly stems, and the last word is earthly branches.

Heavenly stems are a, b, c, d, e, g, n, n, g.

Dizhi is the application of ugly sons Yin Mao and Tatsumi at noon.

For example, the eight characters on August 3, 20 10 are: the evening of Gengyin is the first day of the month.