How do you know your five elements?

The first method is to listen to the five elements. This was in the early stage of the development of the eight-character theory, mainly in the Tang Dynasty (the representative master of this period was Li, whose masterpiece was Li's Letters of Life, and Han Yu, a great writer, wrote an epitaph for Li). In this period, what a person's eight characters and five elements belong to is generally judged according to the year of birth. With the year as the reference point or coordinate, there is a formula to judge the five elements.

The second method is to discuss a person's five elements in his daily work (birthday). This appeared after Xu Ziping, a master of the Song Dynasty (because of him, eight-character fortune-telling is also called Ziping) developed the eight-character theory. From then to now, daily work represents the fate of the master, taking daily work as the reference point or coordinate system.