What does fortune-telling horoscope mean?

In other words, the date of birth is the calendar date when a person is born.

Annual stems and branches form annual columns, monthly stems and branches form monthly columns, daily stems and branches form daily columns, and seasonal stems and branches form hourly columns; A total of four pillars, four stems and four branches, a total of eight words, so it is also called four pillars and eight characters.

Eight-character numerology is a kind of knowledge that infers people's career, marriage, wealth, study, health and other things according to the theories of trunk and branch calendar, yin and yang and five elements. Also called Fan Fortune-telling, it is a fortune-telling method with a long history in China.

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China has used heavenly stems and earthly branches to accurately record years, months, days and hours since ancient times. It consists of eight branches (eight words in total). The combination of year, month, day and hour is called "column", which forms "year column", "moon column", "sun column" and "time column", so the eight characters are also called "four columns" or "four columns and eight characters".

To learn eight characters, you must be familiar with the dry calendar. Every year, beginning of spring is the beginning of the New Year, and beginning of spring shocks silver moon (like the first month of the lunar calendar), with the "Festival" moment as the beginning of the month and the "Qi" last moment as the end of the month; Then calculate the heavenly stems and earthly branches of month, day and hour in turn.

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