How to use the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to date the year, month and day?

The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, referred to as the Stems and Branches, are used in the Summer Calendar to organize years and dates.

The Heavenly Stems are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, C, N, N, D, also known as the Heavenly Stems; Earthly Branches are: Zi, U, C, M, C, S, N, W, W, S, Y, X, H, H, H, H, also known as the twelve Earthly Branches. Stem or yin and yang points: a, c, e, g, non for the yang stem, b, d, hex, xin, dec for the yin stem; son, c, c, c, noon, shen, huxu for the yang branch, ugly, d, si, not, you, ohai for the yin branch. To a celestial stem and a branch of the earth, arranged, celestial stem in the front, the earth's branches in the back, celestial stem from the A, the earth's branches from the son, the yang stem with yang branch, yin stem with yin branch (yang stem does not match the yin branch, yin stem is not matched with the yang branch), * * * there are sixty combinations, known as the "sixty A.". Our people in the past is to sixty a cycle up chronicle, chronicle month, day, time.

1.azi 2.b ugly 3.c Yin 4.d dmao 5.penta 6.fsi 7.gn 8.xinwei

9.nongshen 10.duiyou 11.a huxu 12.b hai 13.propa 14.d chou 15.penta 16.fmao

17.gn 18.xin si 19.nongwu 20.duiyou 21.a shen 22.yiyou 23.c huxu 24. Dinghai

25.ezi 26.fuchu 27.geng c 28.xinmao 29.renchen 30.decsi 31.awu 32.bwei

33.cshen 34.dyou 35.exu 36.hexahai 37.gzi 38.xinclown 39.renyin 40.duimao

41.ahen 42.bsi 43.cwu 44.dwi 45.wushen 46. . hexyl 47.gengxu 48.xinhai

49.renzi 50.jiehou 51.a c 52.bmao 53.chen 54.dinghe 55.ewu 56.fuji

57.gengshen 58.xinyou 59.nongxu 60.jiehou

Stem and Branch Chronology

such as the first year of the first year of the first son, b ugliest year of the second year, c cin for the third year ...... Sixty years is one week. After a week, and then from the year of the first son, week after week, the cycle continues. For example, 1929 is the year of the lunar calendar, 1930 is the year of the lunar calendar Geng Wu ...... to 1989 is the year of the lunar calendar. We see on the calendar, the year of the sixth year, the year of the gengwu, that is, according to this method of arrangement down the stem and branch chronology. The solar year divided by the remainder of the 60 minus 3 will be the number of the lunar year, and then check the above stem is the age of the stem. If the serial number is less than or equal to zero, then the number of the serial number of the branch will be increased by 60. For example, if you are looking for the year 1991, 1991 ÷ 60 = 33 and the remainder of 11, the number of the serial number of the branch will be 11-3 = 8. Check the table of the branches to know that the year is the year of the Xinwi. Another example is to find the 1983 stem and branch: 1983 ÷ 60 = 33 and 3, the number of the stem and branch number = 3-3 = 0, plus 60, check the table of the stem and branch to know that the year for the decanal.

The Monthly Stem and Branch Method

The Monthly Stem and Branch Method is not universally practiced, and it is mainly used by astrologers for projecting the eight characters. The method is as follows: if you meet the year of A or F, the first month will be C c; if you meet the year of B or G, the first month will be E c; if you meet the year of C or H, the first month will be G c; if you meet the year of D or N, the first month will be N c; if you meet the year of E or K, the first month will be A c. The method of the first month of the year of C or H is known to the astrologers. The first month of the stem and branch know, the rest of the month can be in accordance with the order of the 60 A Zi deduction.

Stem and branch date method

A Yan the first day, B ugly for the second day, C Yin for the third day ......60 day for a week. After a week and then by the A Zi day, week after week, the cycle continues. For example, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the year of ji si (1989) is the day of dingyou, the second is the day of wuxu ...... to the first seven days of March is exactly 60 days, so the first two days of March is dingyou day.

Stem and Branch Chronology

The earth's branches of the hour of the day are also determined, so twenty-four hours with twelve earth's branches, from eleven o'clock to one o'clock at night for the son of the hour, one o'clock to three o'clock for the ugly, and the rest according to push.

The day of the day by the day of the heavenly stem of the push, its song hostile as follows:

A self is also born A, B G C for the beginning,

C Xin from the E from the Ding Nong Geng Zi residence,

Wu Dai where the hair, Nong Zi is the real way.

That is to say, if the day is a or self, in the son of the time on with a for a son; day is b or g, in the son of the time on with a son of c for a son of c; c Xin day day time with e for a son of e; d Ren day for a son of g; e dec day for the son of non-non. Knowing the stem and branch of the Zi time, you can deduce the rest.