What did the eight characters mean in ancient times?

The "eight characters" are also called four pillars (year pillar, moon pillar, sun pillar and time pillar), each of which has two characters, above which are heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, Ji, Ke, Xin, Man and Ghost) and below which are earthly branches (Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si and Wu).

Eight-character (eight-character numerology, eight-character numerology) is a method to infer fate according to eight characters. (Source: Nanfeng Public Welfare College)

The eight characters began in the Tang Dynasty, with Nianzhu as the main body, Nian Ming as the life, supplemented by Yin Na's method to push the life. In the Tang Dynasty, Li changed it to year-based and used four pillars: year, month, day and hour. In the Five Dynasties, Xu Ziping changed to Japanese occupation as my (Japanese master), focusing on the restraint of the five elements between the four pillars and the encounter between punishment and punishment, and carried it forward. The current eight-character divination is based on the Ziping method, so the eight-character numerology is also called Ziping method or Ziping eight-character science.

"Eight Characters" is the most important invention of China's numerology. Verified by China for thousands of years. It can be said that it has experienced great storms and the wisdom baptism of countless sages. After repeated practice and textual research, we have obtained important and valuable information, which can also be said to be a very important microcosm of China's thousands of years of civilization.

According to legend, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, China's calendar (now the lunar calendar) was made by the emperor's family and Fu. Since the era of the Yellow Emperor, there have been 78 flowers and 68 flowers. A 60-year-old flower is composed of heavenly stems and earthly branches arranged in turn and combined circularly.

The eight characters express the position of the sun when a person is born. According to the principle of yin-yang and five elements, we can calculate a person's personality and the life trend presented by this personality. There are many schools of eight-character analysis. Generally speaking, it is divided into traditional school and non-traditional school. Traditional schools are divided into Jiangmen and Zhang Ci. Non-traditional schools include Chen Hanxin School and Infinite Mind School.

In ancient times, eight-character fortune-telling mainly analyzed the balance of five elements in a person's chart. When the five elements are unbalanced, they have a great influence on each other, affecting a person's daily life and causing some unpleasant things to happen. On the contrary, when the five elements are more balanced, everything will be smoother.

The eight characters are the eight characters of heavenly stems and earthly branches found in the calendar. Ancient scholars of Yin-Yang and Five Elements believed that there were five elements between heaven and earth. So, put heavenly stems and earthly branches on the five elements. The fate of a person's life is scrutinized from the five elements of "rushing punishment and creating peace"

The eight characters come from the Book of Changes, which is a summary of the natural movement law of human destiny by the working people in ancient China. Eight-character fortune-telling means that our destiny is known and predictable, and we can predict the fate by the time of birth. It provides a theoretical basis for us to scientifically reveal the movement law of human life in the natural "qi" of heaven and earth. "Qi" here is a variant of "shua". Heavenly stems are "heavenly stems" and earthly branches are "earthly stems".

Eight-character fortune telling is also called "Zi Shuping". This is because Xu Ziping comprehensively summed up the fortune-telling skills of predecessors and wrote the first eight-character monograph-Yuan Hai Zi Ping. Make the eight characters develop rapidly. Han Yu, a great writer at that time, said that Ziping's way of life was "never lose a thing or two". Therefore, future generations will also call the eight-character fortune-telling "Zi Shuping".

Ten-day stems: A (ji ǐ), B (yǐ), C (bǐng), D(Dǐng), E (w ǐ), J (jǐ), G (G ǜ ng), Xin (xǐn).

Twelve earthly branches: Zi (zǐ), chou (Chou), Yin (yín), Mao (m ǐ o), Chen (chén), Si (s), Wu (), Wei (wèi) and Shen (shēn).

Five elements attribute of earthly branch

Son (mouse) belongs to sunny water, north; Hai (pig) belongs to yin water, north.

Yin (tiger) belongs to poplar, oriental; Wool (rabbit) belongs to the shade wood, oriental.

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

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

Chen (Long). Xu (dog) belongs to Yangtu and Hanfang;

Ugly (cow) Not (sheep) belongs to dirt, China people.

Nature of heavenly stems and five elements

A is a wooden pillar, east. B is the tree of flowers and fruits, the East.

C is the fire of the sun, south. Ding is the fire of lamps and candles, Nan.

E is the soil of the city wall, China. I am an idyllic land, China.

Gengzi is axe gold, western. Xin is the gold in western jewelry.

Ren is the water of the northern rivers. The deck is rain and dew, north.

Chronological column: discard the 60-A subsequence, put your imaginary year of birth in it, and look back for the stems and branches related to the year of AD ... or compare the branches of the current year or the previous year, and you can also find the corresponding branches you need. If you were born in July 1987, you only know that this year is the Year of the Rabbit (Ding Mao) and don't know what year 1987 is.

1 .jiazi 2. Ugly B 3 Bing Yin 4. Ding Mao 5. Chen Wu 6. Keith 7. Wu Geng 8. Wei Xin 9. Ren Shen 10. Gui You

1 1. JOE 12. Yihai 13. Bing Zi 14. Ding Chou 15. Wuyin 16. Bazaar 17. Chen Geng 65438.

2 1. Shen Jia 22. Yiyou 23. Xu Bing 24. Ding hai 25. Woods 26. Ji Chou 27. Geng Yin 28. Xinmao 29. Yan Chen 30. Guisi

3 1. Wu Jia 32. A micro 33. Shen Bing 34. Dingyou 35. The reform movement of 1898. Jihai 37. Gengzi 38. Xin Chou 39. Ren Yin 40. Guimao.

4 1 .Chen Jia 42. Yisi 43. Bingwu 44. Ding Wei 45. Wu Shen 46. Ji You 47. Geng Xu 48. Xinhai 49. Renzi 50. Ugly.

5 1 .52 good news. Mao yi 53. Chen Bing 54. Ding si 55 Five, five, six Wiki 57. Geng Shen 58. Heart has 59. Ren Xu 60. Guihai

Arranging Moon Columns: The heavenly stems and earthly branches Method of Moon Columns has such a formula in various life books:

In the first year, C was the first.

B Geng years old, E as the head,

Bing Xin looked for Geng at the beginning of the year.

Ding is downstream,

What to say and how to send it?

Good news is good at pursuing.

The formula of this song is also called "The Song of Five Tigers Escaping from the Moon". As for what is "five tigers escaping", I won't say it here. Interested friends will look for relevant numerology books. The meaning of this song is: in the past year, heavenly stems and earthly branches will be arranged according to the first month of the year, Ding Mao in February, Chen Wu in March, and April has been ... so it will be arranged in1February; If the year is B or G, it begins in Wuyi in January; If the stem of a year is Bing Xin, it begins with Geng Yin; For those who work for Ding and Ren, Ren Yin is regarded as January; Five days a year, one month a year, Jiayin. The remaining months can be pushed in order. Note: As for the branches of the month, the earthly branches are always the same, that is, January is cloudy, February is hairy, March is Chen, April is auspicious, May is noon, June is Wei, July is Shen, August is unitary, September is Xu, October is Hai, November is Zi, and December is ugly. This will never change. What changes is only the dryness of the sky, which changes with the dryness of the columns.

Here we see two functions of the twelve earthly branches: one is to indicate the year, corresponding to the zodiac: the child is a mouse, ugly is a cow, yin is a tiger, Mao is a rabbit, Chen is a dragon, a snake is a horse, a sheep is not a sheep, Shen is a monkey, you is a chicken, a dog is a dog and Hai is a pig. The second is the month, as mentioned earlier.

Solar column: it is more troublesome to calculate the solar column. You must first calculate the stem and branch of New Year's Day, and then use the corresponding formula to calculate. This part is very long and of little use, so it is omitted. The most convenient way is to check the calendar. You just need to remember that the ancients also had a way to solve this conclusion.

Schedule column: the word "time" in the eight characters means to divide 24 hours a day into 12 "hours", and each hour is two hours. The correspondence between time and hour is as follows:

Time and Earth Branch Beijing Time (UTC+8) A or Japan B or Geng Ri C or Xin Ri Ding or Ren Ri Noon or Gui Ri.

From 0: 00 to 1 in early childhood, Jiazi should be Bingzi, Wuzi, Gengzi and Renzi.

Ugly in 1-3: 00 B, Ding, Ji, Xin, Gui.

From 3: 00 to 5: 00 in Yin Shi, Bingyin, Wuyin, Gengyin, Renyin and Jiayin.

5: 00-7: 00 in Shi Mao: Dingmao, Jimao, Xinmao, Guimao and Yi Mao.

7: 00-9: 00, on E Day, in Chen Geng, in Ren Chen, in Chen Jia, in Ice City.

9: 00- 1 1: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00: 00

Noon 1 1- 13: 00: noon, noon, noon, noon, noon, noon and noon.

At the end of 13- 15, Xin Wei, Gui Wei, B Wei, Ding Wei and Ding Wei.

15: 00 to 17: 00, Renshen, Shen Jia, Shen Bing, Wu Shen, Gengshen.

Unitary time: 17- 19: Unitary time, Unitary time, Ding time, Unitary time and Symplectic time.

From 19: 00 to 2 1: 00, from JOE to Xu Bing, from Geng Xu to Renxu.

Shihai 2 1-23: 00 Yihai Dinghai Jihai Guihai Xinhai Xinhai Xinhai Xinhai.

From 23: 00 to 24: 00 in the later period of infancy, C-Zi became a son of Wu, a son of Geng, a son of Ren and a son of Jia.

example

The Eight-character Picture of Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (Comment on the Original Works of Shen Xiaozhan in The True Interpretation of Ziping/Comments by Xu)

Time column, sun column, moon column and year column.

Butyl Tian Xin gan

Woods has Mao Di.

From the five elements of the eight characters, ten basic characteristics can be evolved, such as "shoulder to shoulder", "robbing money", "god of food", "hurting officials", "positive wealth", "partial wealth", "positive seal" and "partial seal", and the fate can be judged through their interaction. After the horoscope is arranged, it is necessary to judge the person's respective likes and dislikes of the five elements according to the distribution of the five elements of the horoscope, which is usually called XiShen, avoiding the spirit and using the spirit.

The eight-character luck is divided into Universiade, Universiade and fleeting time. In ten years, the Universiade was pushed forward or backward by the main branch of the moon. Luck and fleeting time are controlled in one year. Luck is calculated from the constellation, and the fleeting time is judged by the intersection of the stem and branch of the yellow calendar with the constellation every year. If you meet a earthly branch in the same year as your birth, it is called "committing Tai Sui".

Because the longitude span of China is relatively large, but the time of east longitude 120 is used, the time column should be converted according to the longitude of the place of birth, and this time difference should also be taken into account, because the distance between the earth and the sun is different in a year. The ancients thought that time is a kind of qi, so people who are born at an untimely time are not born at an untimely time. If the aura has been transformed into an application when the time is not close, it is the fate of the application time. This can be proved by facts. So whether the eight-character time needs to be accurate is based on my own reality, rather than putting it into a box first. The invention of the eight characters by the ancients itself is the product of the ambiguity of time. If we modern people make time accurate, in addition, to determine and describe a person as himself rather than others, we must rely on the combination of time, space and soul, so this is also an important reason why people have different lives. The eight characters only say time or even space, not soul. This is not good. People who have studied spiritualism should know that their body was chosen by a spiritual body before their mother became pregnant, and the reason why this spiritual body chose this body is related to reincarnation.

Related books

Review of Yuan Haiziping by Sheng.

"Field Pasturing" is said to be written by Ji.

Jin Shiwan's "Sansheng Club" in Ming Dynasty.

Comments on Zi Ping's True Solution: The Original Works of the Station/Comments on Xu in the Republic of China.

In the Republic of China, Xu's "Blocking the River Network" ("Poor for Treasures").

The New Theory of Numerology was written by Wu Junmin in the Republic of China.

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Ziping Xu

Liu Ji (Liu Bowen)

Shen Xiaozhan

Rentieqiao

Wan Yu house

allow

Wei Qianli

Yuan Shushan

Wu Junmin

In the final analysis, there is only one sentence in four words: separation is not acceptable. Their law of action is:

Annual trunk, monthly trunk, daily trunk, trunk.

The year branch works with the month branch first, and the day branch and the hour branch work first. The relationship between these two aspects must be considered at the same time at the beginning of the eight characters. After the two steps are divided, we will see if the monthly minute and the daily minute match.

The annual stem and the daily stem are separated by the monthly branches, which has no effect.

The annual branch and the daily branch are separated by the monthly branch, which has no effect.

It doesn't matter that the monthly dry and the hourly dry are separated by the daily dry.

The month branch and the time branch are separated by the day branch, which has no effect.

Natural annual work and time work will never work, and annual support and time support will never work.

Another group, heavenly stems and earthly branches and heavenly stems and earthly branches, made a little effort. For example, the annual merit was Geng, and the annual support was Yin. Geng covered the shade wood, and the shade was injured, but the force of the shade wood was not reduced.

Year dried boxer, moon water, boxer raw water.

There is a great interaction between the sun's trunk and the branches. Sometimes, the daily expenditure is the most effective use, and when it is a taboo, it is the first taboo that must be considered.

Application example of separation function in eight-character analysis

Example:

The Japanese yen seal of the injured officer

Gui Mao ding si Geng Shen pedlars' market

The weak sun, the official star, and the waterlogging can all weaken the sun's dry power. Supposedly, it should all be based on the theory of avoiding gods. In the historical sites bureau, the core of life, the water is not adjacent to the sun's dry power, and it does not work. Guangxi does not drain Geng Jin, and Guangxi is a neighbor, which weakens the strength of the main branch. Injured officials have played a very good role in the game, and officials are afraid of being lucky. I used to be the factory director.

The partition in the sky is invalid, and so is the partition in the earth.

Example:

Shayin Yen Food

Have fun, have fun.

In the afternoon, the strength is weak by 50%, and when it is on eucalyptus, the day is weak. In the game, the Japanese branch and the time branch collide, but it cannot be said that the annual branch and the time branch collide, and the noon fire is taboo, but it is not allowed to support the life.

Example:

Kill money and grab yen

Shen Jia Ren Shen Wu Shen hasn't.

The reason why this eight-character font is weak is that sometimes I can't keep up. Weakness is the taboo of financial officials. In this game, killing in the first year should be taboo, but it is shipped out in the year when the soil can't be dried, and monthly drying is a taboo of water consumption. When the armor and the non-leader act first, it is actually the loss of the water, which weakens the power of the water consumption and makes the armor unsuitable, so the armor plays a very good role in the game. The armor is an official, so the core monument of life can be an official.

To sum up, the seven words in the eight characters should be accurate and comprehensive according to their influence on the daily routine, and their likes and dislikes should be determined according to their functions in the daily routine.

There are two words: use God as wealth, wealth is prosperous, and wealth is great; Avoid being an official, and the official will encounter official disasters. Why is Caiwang so rich? Its essence is that wealth plays a great role. The essence of being an official and avoiding wealth is that being an official plays a bad role. If the official behavior in fate is not strong, but it plays a great role, the official will still be fine.

Chen Jia Wu Shen GUI hai ren yin

When the sun is booming, the water in the sea will be supported by years, and the power of the earth will play a role through the seedlings in the sky. Water-drowning is the number one taboo. Although it is weak, it plays a great role in combining water-drowning with goodness. So the husband married by the woman is a first-class cadre.

Eight-character analysis tips:

First of all, look at the strength of the day: see if you get time, help, life and land. Those who get 2-3 are prosperous, otherwise they are weak.

Second, look at the fate pattern: the strength of the yen is known, and combined with its fate pattern, we can find out the likes and dislikes.

Third, look at God's likes and dislikes:

Choosing to use God is the most critical step in the eight-character theory. The so-called "using God" is what Japanese people need most in the eight characters (representing the Lord himself). Therefore, the use of God depends first on the strength of the sun. If the sun is too strong, it must be restrained, and if it is too weak, it must be supported; Know what it is missing, and fill it; If you know where it is, you should throw it away. Even if the sun is dry, but the climate is too cold or too hot, we should "adjust the weather first" In short, depending on the needs of the Lord, it is called "using God".

Fourth, see the Universiade in the end:

The pattern of likes and dislikes has been set, and the gods have also considered it. Next, we can calculate the lucky year and find out when we are proud, frustrated and even dangerous.