What is the heavenly stem?

"Ganzhi" is the abbreviation of "heavenly stems and earthly branches", which is an ancient calendar. The ancients said, "Heaven is dry and things are dry, but wood is dry and strength is yang. Branches, branches, weak and cloudy. It can be seen that the meaning of heavenly stems and earthly branches comes from trees.

1, ten days dry: A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Ren, Gui.

2. Twelve earthly branches: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Combine.

For example, the ten-day stem and the twelve-day branch are collocated in a fixed order and combined into sixty words from beginning to end in a cycle, which we collectively call "Sixty Jiazi".

At the same time, the twelve earthly branches also correspond to the corresponding zodiac signs, namely, rat, ugly cow, yinhu, maotu, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog and pig.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches is divided into Yin and Yang in sequence, with odd numbers as Yang and even numbers as Yin. Shi Zhixin, a master of Feng Shui, said that it is very important for the five elements to generate grams.