Xu Ziping's introduction

Xu Ziping, a famous resident of the Northern Song Dynasty, had an unknown life story. According to legend, he lived in seclusion with Chen Tuan in Huashan Mountain at the end of the Five Dynasties, and wrote two volumes of Xu Luozi's Notes. On the basis of Li's three-column method (year, month and day deduction algorithm), he invented the four-column method (year, month, day and time deduction algorithm). Taking the branches of the four pillars as the eight characters and speculating the fate of life with the restraint relationship in the eight characters has a particularly wide impact on society, so that the eight-character method is also called the Ziping method. In the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Yu said in the miasma collection: "There are five stars in the rivers and lakes that tell about life. According to legend, there was Xu Ziping in the Song Dynasty, who was good at astrology and was later taught by a warlock, so he was called Ziping. " As a folk custom, Guzhangsi in Qing Dynasty specially arranged Ziping fortune-telling in Tufeng furnace. Yuan Hai Zi Ping, which is popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, is a masterpiece of fortune-telling in the name of Zi Ping. "Siku" also said: "Ziping's deeds can't be tested, and his independent study is the teaching of the world." Today, he is called "Ziping numerology" because of his name. Notes and Summary on the News of Luo Zi III "The people who spread Xu Ziping in the Song Dynasty were good at astrology, and later warlocks were loyal to it. Therefore, it is called Ziping, and Yun Ziping is called Juyi, a man of five seasons. Chen Tunan and Lv Dongbin, who are friends with Ma Yi, are hiding in Huashan to cover different people. "