How to Calculate the Birth Character in Ancient Times

The combination of yin and yang and the five elements became a theory for the ancients to explain various natural and life phenomena. Divination and fortune-telling is an activity to predict the future. In ancient times, productivity was low, so it was more difficult to grasp the fate of individuals, and they wanted to know more. Numerology then utilized the doctrine of yin and yang and the five elements to illustrate a person's destiny. One of the main methods is to use the eight characters of the birthdate to deduce fate. The so-called Eight Characters of Birth are the year, month, day and hour of birth expressed in terms of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. In the pre-Qin period, people only used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to keep track of the day, but later, the year, month, day and hour could be kept in Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. There are ten Heavenly Branches: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, K. The Earthly Branches are twelve in number: Zi, Zi, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, K. Twelve Earthly Branches: Zi, ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Huxu, Ohio. The order of the two with can produce sixty units, called sixty Azi. That birth year, month, day, time respectively, with the Heavenly Stem, Earthly Branches with to say, there are exactly eight words, and therefore called the eight words of the birth, the phase of the people and call it the four columns of the person. There are also five elements in the eight characters of the birthdate. In the ten heavenly stems, a, b is wood, c, d is fire, e, f is earth, g, xin is gold, non, dec is water. Twelve Earthly Branches, Yin, Mao is wood, Si, Wu is fire, Shen, You is gold, Oh, Zi is water, eons, garrisons, ugliness, unearth. In this way, according to the eight characters of the birth date, you can project what is missing in your life. The ancients believed that you must have all five elements for your destiny to prosper.

For modern people, it is not easy to judge their own birthdays anymore, because most people remember their birthdays by the solar calendar, which is the Gregorian calendar. So here is an introduction on how to deduce the birth date from the solar calendar birthday.

The heavenly stem and earthly branch representation of the birth year is best found. Its year is the year of the lunar calendar, from the first day of the year to New Year's Eve. Just check the year calendar. If you don't have the year's yearly calendar, you can work backwards from this year's yearly calendar. After knowing the year's Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, you can refer to the table of 60 A Zi in Chapter 2, Section 2 of this book, and work backwards in order. For example, after New Year's Eve in 1998 to 1999 New Year's Eve is the year of the e c, then reverse can be known as 1997 is the year of the d ugly, 1996 is the year of the c son, 1995 is the year of the b Oh, 1994 is the year of the jashuo and so on.

The month of birth is also not difficult to deduce the heavenly stems and earthly branches. Lunar calendar in November for the month of son, December for the month of ugly, January for the month of Yin, the following in order of February month, March month, April month, May month, June month, July month, August month, September month, October month. However, the month of December is different from the one mentioned by the philologists, which is marked by the twenty-four solar terms. Each year, the day of spring to the day of the jellyfish for the month of January that is c, jellyfish to the Qingming for the month of February, d, Qingming to the summer for the month of March, the summer to Mangsui for the month of April, Mangsui to the summer for the month of May, the small summer to the autumn for the month of June, the Autumn to the White Dew for the month of July, the White Dew to the Cold Dew for the month of August, the Cold Dew to the winter for the month of September, the Winter to the snow for the month of October, the Snow to the cold for the month of November, the month of son, the cold to the spring for December ugly. Xiao cold to the spring for the December ugly month. In this way, as long as we know the birthday is the lunar month, we know the birth month of the earth's branches. What about the celestial stem of the birth month?

Son 11 E Zi C Zi C Zi G Zi Neng Zi A Zi

U 12 D Chou He Chou Xin Chou Dec Chou B Chou

For example, in all the years with A as the celestial stem such as A Zi, A Yin, and so on, the celestial stem of January is C, which is the month of C Yin, and in March it is the month of D D, and in March it is the month of E C, and so on, and in the years where the celestial stem is already in place, such as in the years of F Si and D, the celestial stems of the months of the months of the years of F Si, and D, and so on, are also the same as those of the years of the world in the world in A.

Birthday of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches of the projection is very complex. It is by the ancient phase of the person set a certain day of the stem and branch, and then pushed down in turn. The only way to find out the stem and branch of the birthday is to check the almanac, and it is the almanac that compares the lunar and solar calendars. If you don't know how many birthdays are in the lunar calendar, you can check the almanac.

The stem and branch of the birth time can be introduced by the stem and branch of the birthday. In ancient times, the day was divided into twelve hours, corresponding to the twelve earthly branches, exactly two hours now is an hour. Late at night from 23:00 to 1:00 a.m. is Zi Shi, from 1:00 to 3:00 is Ugly, from 3:00 to 5:00 is Yin Shi, from 11:00 to 13:00 is Noon, from 13:00 to 15:00 is Unsettled, from 15:00 to 17:00 is Shen Shi, from 17:00 to 19:00 is You Shi, from 19:00 to 21:00 is Gushu Shi, and from 21:00 to 23:00 is Oh Shi. These are the earth branches of the birth time. The Heavenly Stem of the birth hour is deduced from the Heavenly Stem of the birthday. There is the following mnemonic:

A Si is also added to A, B G C for the beginning,

C Xin from E Zi, Ding N Geng Zi residence,

W Ki push Nong Zi, the time element is determined not false.

This mnemonic is used to calculate the heavenly stem of the son. That is to say, where the birthday heavenly stem is A or Hei, Zi Shi is A Zi Shi, B, Geng is the heavenly stem of the day, Zi Shi is C Zi Shi, C, Xin is the heavenly stem of the day, Zi Shi is E Zi Shi, Ding, Nong is the heavenly stem of the day, Zi Shi is Geng Zi Shi, E, Ki is the heavenly stem of the day, Zi Shi is Nong Zi Shi. Knowing the day of the Zi Zi time, the rest of the time can be in accordance with the table of sixty A Zi analogous. Such as the day of the son is gengzi, then the ugly time is xin ugly time, c is non Yin time, and so on.

1. The main trunk of the day for the wood (A, B):

Born in the spring: there must be fire to help, water is better, but avoid too much water, avoid too much earth.

Born in summer: must have water to help, avoid too much earth and also too much wood.

Born in the fall: there must be gold to help, but not too much gold, there must be earth, fire is good, but not too much water.

Born in winter: must have fire to help, it is better to have earth and water.

2. The main stem of the day is fire (C, D):

Born in the spring: this time must be C fire or D fire, mostly good, but avoid more wood, more earth.

Born in summer: it must be assisted by water, and it is most preferable to have gold.

Born in the fall: like to have wood, avoid water, earth more.

Born in winter: must have wood to help, avoid having water and gold much, like to have earth, water and wood.

3. When the Heavenly Stem of the Day Master is Earth (E,) E:

Born in spring: like to have fire and wood, like to have gold and less, avoid more gold and more wood.

Born in summer: prefer to have water and gold, avoid having wood.

Born in fall: prefer fire and wood, avoid gold and water.

Born in winter: like to have fire, more like to have fire and gold, like to have earth and wood.

4. When the Heavenly Stem of the Day Master is Gold (Geng, Xin):

Born in Spring: like to have Earth and Fire, and most hate to have no Earth and Gold.

Born in summer: must have water to help, avoid wood more.

Born in the fall: prefer to have wood, fire, avoid more earth.

Born in winter: must have fire and earth to help, avoid no fire, earth instead of gold, water, avoid wood and no fire.

5. When the heavenly stem of the main body of the day is water (non, deca):

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

Born in summer: must have gold to help, but avoid much wood.

Born in the fall: must have gold to help, avoid earth, gold, water more, prefer wood, fire.

Born in winter: must have fire to help, like more water, but avoid more gold.

For example, let's say someone is born in the year of Ding Chou, the month of Dec Chou, the day of C Wu, the time of Ding You. According to the correspondence between the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and the Five Elements mentioned earlier, Ding is Fire, Ugly is Earth, Dec is Water, Ugly is Earth, C is Fire, Noon is Fire, D is Fire, You is Gold, and the Eight Characters are Four Fire, Two Earth, One Water and One Gold, and the Heavenly Stem of the Day Master is C Fire, and he was born in Ugly Month, which is the winter month of December, then, according to the table above, what is most deficient is Wood, but these Eight Characters are Four Fire, and the Heavenly Stem of the Day Master is very strong, and the deficiency of Wood is not too much. If the year, month and day are the same, and born in Wuzi, then the eight characters are three fire, three earth and two water, lacking wood and gold.

So the eight characters of birth can not be changed, can there be any way to make up for its shortcomings? The ancients believed that the name can do this. That is, the eight elements in the lack of what, the name of what to make up for, such as the above lack of wood, the name can be called wood, or call the wood side of the word, such as Tongbai, such as pine and so on, can also be called wooden things, such as beams and so on. If there is a lot of lack, the name will have more wood in it, such as calling it grove, or even forest.

It is an ancient custom to name a person after his or her five elements in the eight characters. Lu Xun in his novel "hometown" there is a sup account:

I heard the name leap earth, and know that he and I as if the age of the leap month, born in the five elements of the lack of earth, so his father called him leap earth.

This is a typical example. In fact, in ancient times, when a child was born, it was very common for parents to go to a fortune teller to figure out the child's birth date and five elements. In the future matchmaking, this birth date and eight characters also have to be with the spouse's does not conflict with it. That's why there are many people who take their names accordingly. What kind of name depends on the degree of deficiency of the five elements in the eight characters. For example, called Liu Song, may be the five elements of the lack of wood, but the lack of not much, such as called Liu Songlin, the lack of some more, called Liu Forest, then the lack of too much. In ancient times, it is common to see some people with the name of Sen, Yan, Xin, Miao, Yao, usually is the life of the five elements are missing one. If there is a lack of two kinds, they all have to make up, like the lack of gold, wood can be called Jin Gui, the lack of water, earth can be called Yu Tian, the lack of gold, fire can be called Jin Yan and so on. Because there are eight characters in the birth chart, so the five elements and the lack of three of them would be rare.

The above is one way of naming with the five elements doctrine. There is another method that is also very common, which is to name the family lineage using the principle of the five elements. In fact, among the eight characters of the birth year, no matter whether they are missing or not, there is always a line that is the main one, and this line dominates the destiny. Like the above example of December 13, 1937, he is the fire life. Then there are the Water, Earth, Gold and Wood Fates. According to the fortune teller, these are the person's virtues, the basis on which he lives. This saying can be said to have originated from the ancients' analysis of the change of dynasties. During the Warring States period, there was a man from Qi, Zou Yan, who founded the doctrine of the five virtues of finality, believing that each dynasty had virtues that matched the five elements as the foundation of the state. It was later passed down from generation to generation and became a stereotypical theory. For example, the Shang Dynasty was characterized by the virtue of water, while the Han Dynasty was characterized by the virtue of fire, and the Song Dynasty was characterized by the virtue of fire, so there was the theory of Yan Liu and Yan Song. Regarding the law of dynastic turnover, some people hold the theory of phase birth. For example, the grandfather is water life, water born wood, the father is wood life, wood born fire, the son is fire life. Take insurance should be matched, take the five elements of the word for the side, father and son, constituting the five elements of the order of birth. For example, the Song Dynasty rationalist Zhu Xi, four points under the word, is fire. His father was called Zhu Song, his son was called Zhu Sook, wood begets fire, fire begets earth, not at all chaotic. This method of naming five elements, namely, can indicate the paternal blood relationship, but also can see the lineage, so with the genealogy of the lineage of the word faction is somewhat similar, very ethical meaning, there are many ancient people are using.

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