The Author History of Yuan Haizi's Pingyin Yizhu

People in the Five Dynasties and the Early Song Dynasty, based on Li's year, month and day fortune telling, developed into a four-pillar technique to predict fate by year, month, day and time. The so-called four columns, that is, the trunk of the year of birth is the first column, the month of birth is the second column, the birthday is the third column, and the birth time is the fourth column. Each pillar is a word in the sky and a word in the ground. The four-column branch adds up to eight characters, so people also call the four-column technique eight characters. This method has been adopted by later numerologists. Because of Xu Ziping's great contribution to fortune-telling, future generations call fortune-tellers Zi Ping.

Xu Ziping once lived in Yi, lived in seclusion in Huashan, and studied numerology. He became good friends with Ma Yi, a fortune teller, and Chen Tunan, a master of the Book of Changes. His works include two volumes of Notes on Xu Ziluo's Way. Yuan Hai Zi Ping is an authoritative numerology book edited by Xu Sheng in Song Dynasty according to Xu Ziping's research results on numerology. After the Song Dynasty, people paid more and more attention to fate, and numerology books emerged one after another. Among them, in the early Ming Dynasty, Liu Ji's Dripping Water and Essence of Heaven, Shen Xiaozhan's Zi Ping Zhen Quan, Wan's San Hui and Shenfeng Sect had great influence and high quality. Among them, Sanshenghui is famous for its detailed argumentation and clear organization, but at the same time it is too complicated to make beginners flinch.