Excuse me, what is the eight characters?

The eight characters, also called four pillars, are heavenly stems and earthly branches's eight characters found in the calendar, which represent the year, month, day and time of a person's birth with the heavenly stems and earthly branches of heaven and earth. It adds up to eight words. Eight-character (eight-character numerology, eight-character numerology) is a method to infer fate according to eight characters.

Eight characters, also known as "Zi Ping Ming Xue", "Zi Shu Ping", "Four-poster Xue Ming" and "Birth". Heavenly stems and earthly branches's collocation is used to mark the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth, which are called year column, moon column, sun column and time column respectively. Each pillar consists of heavenly stems and earthly branches. In application, the annual column or moon column is mainly used, but the solar column is mainly used. Niangan represents parents, Yuegan represents brothers and sisters (I am a man, Yuegan represents brothers and sisters; I am a woman, and the moon branch represents my sister and the moon branch represents my brother. Time represents children. Also take the life palace, fetus, Universiade, Universiade, and fleeting time, and cooperate with the five elements of old age and moon order to restrain blame. Ancestors described the numerology of the ancestors of Guigu during the Warring States Period, which was passed down from generation to generation. In the Han Dynasty, Guan Ju in the Three Kingdoms, Guo Pu in the Jin Dynasty, Li and his party in the Tang Dynasty, Xu Juyi in the Five Dynasties, Daohong monk in the Song Dynasty, Liu Bowen in the Yuan Dynasty, Shen Xiaozhan, Chen Su 'an, Wei Qianli and Yuan Shushan in the Qing Dynasty were iron bridges, and today's Zhang Donghai. Mr. Huang pioneered the method of "counting the past for free and counting the future for fees" in China, which made fortune-telling return to science. At present, most ancient books represented by Liu Bowen and Ren Tieqiao's "Yi Tian Mu Yi Hui" say that this method originated from astronomical phenomena, the choice of life palace and zodiac is the same as that of tantric astrology, and human life is four pillars.