About how to read the eight characters of birth

One, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches

The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, referred to as the Stems and Branches, is a set of symbols used in ancient China to calculate the calendar, in which the Heavenly Stems have ten stems: A B C D E H E H E H E G N N D E; the Earthly Branches have twelve stems: Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen You Xu Hai. Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches combined to form sixty stems and branches, also known as the sixty flowers and armor as follows.

A Zi

乙丑

丙寅

丁卯

戊辰

己巳

庚午

辛未

壬申

癸酉

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C11

乙亥

C1

Ding 丑

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EYIN

HIMAO

GENCHEN

XINSI

NONWOOD

DECWEI

JASHEN

EYOU

CYANGO

DINGHEI

EZI

HEUGHEN

HENCHEN

GENCHEN

XINDU

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癸巳

甲午

乙未

丙申

丁酉

戊戌

己亥

庚子

辛丑

壬寅

癸卯

甲辰

乙巳

丙午

Ace

乙巳

C

Ding Wei

E Shen

He You

G Hundred Days

Xin Hai

壬子

癸丑

A Yin

B Mao

C Chen

T Si

E Wu

He Wei

Hundred Days

He Wei

G Shen

"Yi" said: "Yi has Taiji, is born two meters." The so-called "two meters" is the yin and yang, so the "Yi" also said: "a yin and a yang is called Tao." Yin and Yang refers to the contradiction of things, such as day and night, heat and cold, length, male and female, male and female, static, rigid and soft and so on.

The five elements is a more detailed analysis of the world, the ancients believe that the world is composed of five basic elements: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and furthermore, these five elements are transformed into each other, each other's constraints, and the resulting transformations and constraints, thus constituting the architecture of heaven and earth and the interest of all things in a thousand different forms. The law of transformation of the five elements can be divided into two kinds:

1.

Xin

G

B

A

Dec

Non

D

C

He

E

Y

Shen

Mao

Cin

H

Sub

S

Si

午

丑未

辰戌

Fourth, the relationship between the twenty-four seasons and the stem and branch

Ancient and modern calendars are no more than two kinds of solar and lunar calendars, the solar calendar, the calendar of today's world (the predecessor of the Julian Calendar, the sixteenth century Pope Gregory XIII slightly modified the formation of today's Gregorian Calendar), and lunar calendar, such as the Muslim calendar, commonly used in Muslim countries. Muslim calendar, which is commonly used in Muslim countries. The main difference between these two calendars is that the solar calendar takes the Earth's orbit around the Sun (or the Sun's orbit around the ecliptic, in the case of the Earth) as a return year, averages it into twelve months, and then divides it into small and large equal intercalary months in order to generalize the rest. The advantage of the solar calendar is that the four seasons are distinct and accurate; the lunar calendar, on the other hand, strictly uses the lunar solstice cycle to record the months, and because it does not take into account the Earth's rotation cycle, it cannot accurately delineate the boundaries of the four seasons. The traditional Chinese lunar calendar is in fact a kind of yin-yang calendar, which, on the one hand, uses the lunar lunar cycle to record the months, and, on the other hand, skillfully establishes intercalary months to synchronize with the return year.

The so-called twenty-four seasons is the Earth around the sun for a week, that is, a return to the 360-degree angle of the year for 24 minutes, that is, the sun in the yellow meridian in the east every move 15 degrees for a "gas", move a week of 360 degrees **** 24 gas, the lunar calendar will be the twenty-four seasons named spring, rain, hibernation, the equinoxes, the clearing of the rain, the valley rain, Summer, small full, mango, summer solstice, small summer, summer, autumn, summer, white dew, autumn equinox, cold dew, frost, winter, snow, snow, winter solstice, small cold, big cold. Among them, twelve are called "solar terms", including Lichun, Hibiscus, Qingming, Lixia, Mangzao, Xiaoshu, Lichu, Autumn, White Dew, Cold Dew, Lidong, Daxue, and Xiaochun, and the rest are called "Zhongqi" (middle terms). While the solar terms are usually regarded as lunar, they are in fact calculated strictly on the basis of the year of return, and belong to the lunar calendar. The division of years and months used in the Four Pillars arrangement is also strictly based on the standard of the solar term, rather than the usual lunar or Gregorian calendar, which is the basic principle of the Four Pillars, making the arrangement of the Four Pillars unaffected by changes in the calendar to maintain its accuracy, and more importantly, using the year of the return as the mark of the chronology, which is in line with the rhythm of the seasons of the changes of heat and cold and following the causal relationship of the celestial wheel of events, which is the theoretical basis for the science of fortune-telling. The relationship between the four columns of the year, the month and the branches of the year and the seasons is listed below.

Nodes

Yellow meridian

Moonlight

Nodes

Yellow meridian

Moonlight

Nodes

Yellow meridian

Moonlight

Lunar New Year

315 deg.

寅

Lixia

45 degrees

Si

Lichu

135 degrees

Shen

Lidong

225 degrees

Hai

Rain

330 degrees

寅

Xiaomang

60 degrees

Si

Sunrise

150 degrees

Shen

Snow

240 degrees

Hai

Shocking mat

345 degrees

Mao

Mango seed

75 degrees

午

White dew

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165 degrees

You

Daxue

255 degrees

Zi

Spring Equinox

0 degrees

Mao

Summer Solstice

90 degrees

Midday

Autumn Equinox

180 degrees

You

Winter Solstice

270 degrees

Zi

Qingming

15 degrees

Chen

Xiao Summer

105 degrees

Wei

Cold Dew

195 degrees

Hundred Days

Xiao Chill

丑

谷雨

30 degrees

辰

大暑

120 degrees

未

霜降

210 degrees

戌

大寒

300 degrees

丑

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2. The beginning of each month is strictly based on the cross-section of the moment, such as February 4, 1994, 9:31 pm spring, then the year of the Hundred Days of the Yin month (January) from the start of spring, to March 6, 3:38 hibernation until the start of the hibernation from 3:38 on March 6 is counted as the month of the month of the Mao month (February), the rest of such an extension.

Fifth, the five heavenly stems together

A hexagrams of earth ethyl geng together gold c Xin together water ding nong together wood e dec together fire

The so-called five heavenly stems together, is the five groups of heavenly stems of the interactions and the changes, such as c Xin together with the water, means that the heavenly stems of the c meet the heavenly stems of the xin, c is originally fire, xin is originally gold, but the two together with each other to start the reaction, the new together, but the change is water, such as chemical reactions, both of which are the same nature, but the change of water. Like a chemical reaction, the nature of the two has changed, generating new properties. Of course, in the practical application, the combination is a strict condition, not a see C Xin is considered to be turned into water. C Xin so, the rest can be analogous.

Six, the six branches of the six Chong

Zi Wu Chong

Ug Wei Chong

In Shen Chong

Mao You Chong

Chen Xu Chong

Si Hai Chong

Six of the six Chong refers to changes in the Earth's branches of the births and deaths of changes such as the Earth's branches of the Zi meet the Earth's branches of the Wu, both of them, each other have suffered a loss. As for whether this is good or bad, need to be deduced from the whole picture.

Seven, the three branches of the Earth's branch

Hei, D-wei and wood

Si, You, U and gold

Shen, Zi-Chen and water

In, Wuxu, Hundred and Fifth Fire

Three branches of the Earth's branch is reasonable with the five heavenly stems, that is, the interaction of Earth's branches and the change of nature, such as Hei, D-wei, the three branches of the Earth's branch, then change into wood. In practice, the three branches of the earth also have strict conditions.

Eight, half of the Earth's branch triad

Hai Mao together with the wood, Mao Wei together with the wood

Si You alloy, You U alloy

Shen Zi together with the water, Zi Chen together with the water

Chin Wuhu together with the fire, wu Xuhu together with the fire

Earth's branch half of a reasonable three with the Earth's branch triad, however, because of the three did not converge all, so the power of the triad to be a bit smaller.

Nine, the earth branch hexagram

Zi U and earth

In Hai and wood

Mao Huxu and fire

Chen You alloy

Si Shen and water

Noon and earth

The earth branch hexagram is also a mutual change between the earth branches, such as the Zi U together, it changes into the earth, earth branch hexagram is less powerful than the triad and semi-triad. The power of earth branch hexagram is less than that of triple and half triple.