A detailed explanation of the fortune-telling method of cadres and branches.

How does heavenly stems and earthly branches Five Elements Tell Fortune?

Heavenly stem and five elements-

1, a is column wood, b is flower wood, and a and b are oriental wood.

2. C is the fire of the sun, D is the fire of lamps and candles, and C is the fire of the south.

3.e is the soil of the city wall, the soil of the countryside and the central soil of Wuji.

4. Geng is axe gold, Xin is jewelry gold, and it is western gold.

You are the water of rivers, the water of rain and dew, and the water of the north.

Earthly branches and five elements—

1, the son (mouse) belongs to sunny water, north; Hai (pig) belongs to yin water, north.

2. Populus euphratica (Tiger), oriental; Wool (rabbit) belongs to the shade wood, oriental.

3. Scorpion (snake) belongs to yin fire, south; Noon (horse) belongs to yang fire, which is in the south.

4. Shen (monkey) genus, western regions; You (chicken) belongs to Yin Jin, the Western Region.

5. Chen (Dragon) and Xu (Dog) belong to Yang soil, and they are in the middle;

6, ugly (cattle), not (sheep) belongs to the soil, the central.

Extended data:

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, the main branch for short, originated from the observation of astronomical phenomena in ancient China. "A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui" are called ten heavenly stems, and "Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai" are called twelve earthly branches.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches constitutes the ancient calendar. Ten branches and twelve branches are matched in turn to form sixty basic units, which cooperate with each other in a fixed order to form the epoch method of branches and branches. The invention of trunks and branches marked the emergence of the most primitive calendar, which was used to calculate the age by numbers.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches is one of the ancient traditional cultures of the Chinese nation. There are ten characters in heavenly stems, and the order is A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Ren and Gui, while there are twelve characters in earthly branches, and the order is Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen and You.

The knowledge handed down from ancient times tells people that heavenly stems and earthly branches has a very close relationship with Yin-Yang and Five Elements. Both ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches have yin-yang classification and five elements classification.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-heavenly stems and earthly branches