Five lines of gossip terminology

In the long and splendid cultural history of our country, our ancestors also invented some theories to explain the movement of the universe and the laws of the world through their own experience. Here, the theory has penetrated into all aspects of natural science and social life, including naming. One of the most important theories is five lines of gossip's theory of Yin and Yang. Although there are not many people named like this now, it is necessary to understand the rich and diverse naming methods of the ancients.

The theory of yin-yang and five elements existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Yin-yang theory contains simple dialectical thinking, which holds that everything has two contradictory aspects, which can be summarized as Yin and Yang respectively. For example, the south of the mountain is yang and the north of the mountain is yin; The north of the water is yang, and the south of the water is yin; The surface of leaves is yang, and the back is yin; Male is yang, female is yin; The sun is yang, and the moon is also called lunar? Yin and Yang are transformed into each other, and they are endless. The graphic image that shows this rule is Taiji diagram. In the Taiji diagram, when Yang is at its peak, Yin has quietly appeared; When the sun was at its peak, it also appeared quietly, and it flourished and declined. This philosophy is still very profound.

The theory of five elements was also summed up by the ancients from their life practice. They believe that everything in the century is composed of five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which have different forms of expression in different things. For example, five colors: green, red, yellow, white and black, five tones: horn, sign, palace, business and feather, five flavors: sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty, five internal organs: liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney, and five emotions: joy, joy, desire, anger and sorrow. The five elements have the order of generation, mutual generation and mutual control. The order of generations is wood, fire, earth, gold and water. The order of mutual development is wood fire, fire soil, primary gold, golden water and aquatic wood. The order of mutual recognition is: water can overcome fire, fire can overcome gold, Jin Kemu, Muketu and Tuke water.

The combination of Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theory became the theory of ancient people to explain various natural and life phenomena. Divination and fortune telling are activities to predict the future. In ancient times when productivity was low, it was more difficult to grasp personal destiny and want to know more. The theory of yin-yang and five elements is used to explain a person's fate. One of the main methods is to use the date of birth to calculate fate. The so-called birthday is the year, month, day and time of birth expressed by heavenly stems and earthly branches. In the pre-Qin period, people only used heavenly stems and earthly branches to remember the days. Later, heavenly stems and earthly branches could be used to remember the days, months and days. There are ten heavenly ways: A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Man and Ghost. There are twelve branches: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. The combination of the two can produce sixty units, which are called sixties. The year, month, day and time of birth are combined by heaven and earth, and there are just eight words, so it is called birth, and the fortuneteller also calls it the four pillars of human beings. There are also five elements in a birthday. In the sky, A and B belong to wood, C and D belong to fire, E and E belong to soil, G and Xin belong to gold, and Ren and Gui belong to water. Among the twelve earthly branches, Yin and Mao belong to wood, four or five belong to fire, Shen and You belong to gold, Hai and Zi belong to water, Chen, Shu and Ugly, but they don't belong to earth. In this way, according to the date of birth, you can calculate what is missing in your life. The ancients believed that fate would flourish only if the five elements were possessed.

It is not easy for modern people to judge their date of birth, because most people remember that their birthday is in the solar calendar, that is, the Gregorian calendar. So here is how to calculate the date of birth from the birthday of the solar calendar.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was born in, said it was best to find. Its year is the year of the lunar calendar, from the first day to New Year's Eve. Just check the calendar. If you don't have the calendar of that year, you can reverse it according to this year's calendar. After knowing heavenly stems and earthly branches this year, you can refer to the 60-year-old table in the second section of Chapter 2 of this book, and then push it backwards in turn. For example, New Year's Eve from 1998 to 1999 is the year of Wuyin, so it can be inferred that 1997 is the year of Ding Chou, 1996 is the year of C Zi, 1995 is the year of B Hai, and 1994 is the year of A.

It is not difficult to calculate the birth month of the main branch. The lunar calendar takes November as the second month, December as the ugly month, and January as silver moon. Followed by Uzuki in February, Chen Yue in March, Mitsuki in April, noon in May, moonless in June, Shen Yue in July, unitary month in August, garrison month in September, and 10 sea month. But unlike December, it is marked by 24 solar terms. Every year, from the day of beginning of spring to the day of surprise, it is silver moon in January; From the day of surprise to Qingming, it is Uzuki in February; From Qingming to long summer, it is Chen Yue in March; From the long summer to the middle, it is Mitsuki in April; From the boundless to the small tree, it is the afternoon of May; It's the end of June when the summer heat arrives in beginning of autumn. From beginning of autumn to the Millennium, it is July; From the Millennium to the cold dew, it is the month of August; From cold dew to early winter, it is September; And from winter to heavy snow is October. In this way, as long as you know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you will know the earthly branch of your birth month. What should I do about the moon? Here is a table, the first row is the heavenly stems of each year, and the column is the earthly branches of each month. The following table lists the dry days of each month:

Month/year

Jiaji

Ethylheptyl

moral integrity

Ding ren

Pentadecyl

Yinyi

Bingyin

five notes of the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale

plough and weed

Human voice

good news

Maoji

Ding Mao

Jimao

Xin Mao

Guimao

Mao Yi

Chen San

Chen wunian in lunar calendar

This day, this day

Ren Chen

Chen Jia

Chen Bing

Sisi

Keith

Shinji

Guisi

Yasi

Dingsi

Wu Wu

Geng Wu

This is the third day.

Wu Jia

Igloo

Wu Wu

Julius

Xin Wei

Guiwei

Yiwei

Wei Ding

not have

Shen qi

Ren Shen

Shen Jia

Shen Bing

Valkyrie

Gengshen

Youba

Gui You

friend and mentor

Dingyou

Ji You

Heart

Shujiu

Jiashu

Bingshu

martial arts

Geng Shu

common people

felsenmeer

Yihai

Dinghai

Jihai

Xinhai

Guihai

Zi Shiyi

Wuzi

Bingzi

Gengzi

Renzi

Sixty-year cycle

Ugly twelve

Ding Chou

ugly

Xin Chou

Guichou

Night ugliness

For example, in Jiazi and Jiayin years, the dryness in January is C, C, March is Ding Mao, March is Chen Wu, and so on. The dryness in successive years of drought is the same as that in Jiatian.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches's birthday calculation is very complicated. It was decided by the ancient fortune teller on a certain day, and then pushed down in turn. If you want to know your birthday, you can only look up the perpetual calendar, which is a perpetual calendar compared with the yin-yang calendar. If you don't know when your birthday is in the lunar calendar, you can check the perpetual calendar.

The trunk of life can be derived from the trunk of birthday. In ancient times, a day was divided into twelve hours, corresponding to the twelve branches of the earth, but now two hours are one hour. It is midnight to morning 1, ugly to 3, Yin Shi to 5, noon to 1 13, untimely to 13, and 15. These are the earthly branches of life. Life dryness is calculated from the dryness of birthday. There are the following formulas:

A adds a, b, g, and c is the first one.

Bing Xin began with Wuzi, and Ding Ren lived with Gengzi.

Time will be real when you push the scorpion.

This formula is used for operators. That is to say, every birthday is a day, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, when it is a birthday, and when it is a birthday. If the son of this day is a boxer, then ugly is ugly, cloudy is non-cloudy, and so on.

Knowing the date of birth, we can infer the five elements. In the date of birth, the sun's heavenly stems represent themselves; It is called the king of the sun. The earthly branches of the sun are spouses or brothers and sisters. The heavenly stems of the month represent the father and the earthly branches represent the mother. In 2008, Tiangan represented my grandfather and Dizhi represented my grandmother. Heavenly stems represent fathers and earthly branches represent women. The situation of the five elements is to judge the relationship between the other seven heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Japanese heavenly stems. There is also the so-called six gods theory, which is more complicated. Generally speaking, as long as the five elements in the eight characters are even, life is good. It is not good for the sun to do too little and too much, and it is not good for many people to live with too much sun. Then, judging what is missing or more in the eight-character line requires careful analysis. We'll give you a simple method. You just need to look it up according to the Lord and the Lord's season.

1. When the sun is dry (A and B):

Born in spring: it is advisable to have fire and water, and avoid water and soil.

Born in summer: you need water to help, and you should avoid more soil and more trees.

Born in autumn: you must have gold to help, but avoid too much gold. You must have soil and fire, but avoid too much water.

Born in winter: fire is necessary, preferably soil and water.

2. When the sun is dry and the fire is burning (c and d):

Born in spring: At this time, it must be C fire or Ding Huo, which is better, but avoid too much wood and soil.

Born in summer: You must have water to help you, and gold is your favorite.

Born in autumn: like wood, don't like water and soil.

Dongsheng: there must be wood to help, avoid water and gold, like soil, water and wood.

3. When the sun is dry and the earth is dry (e, e):

Born in spring: I like fire and wood, but I like gold but not Jin Mu.

Born in summer: I prefer water and gold to wood.

Born in autumn: I like fire, wood, gold and water.

Born in winter: like fire, more like fire gold, like civil engineering.

4. When the sun is dry for gold (Geng, Xin):

Born in spring: I like earth and fire, but I don't like earth and gold.

Born in summer: you need water to help, avoid many trees.

Born in autumn: I like wood and fire, but I don't like soil.

Dongsheng: There must be a combination of fire and soil. Avoid no fire, but there is gold and water in the soil. Avoid wood without fire.

5. When the day is dry and the day is rainy (nonyl, decyl):

Chunsheng: There must be soil to help. If there is fire, there is gold, but avoid more gold.

Born in summer: you need financial help, avoid many trees.

Born in autumn: you must have financial help, and avoid earth, golden water, hi-wood and fire.

Born in winter: you need help from fire, love water more, and avoid gold more.

For example, if someone was born in the year of Ding Chou, the month of Gui Chou, Wu Bingri and Ding Youshi, then this person's date of birth is: Ding Chou, Gui Chou, Wu Bing and Ding You. According to the corresponding relationship between the stem and the five elements mentioned above, Ding belongs to fire, ugly belongs to soil, decyl belongs to water, ugly belongs to soil, C belongs to fire, noon belongs to fire, Ding belongs to fire, unitary belongs to gold, the eight characters are four fires, two soils, one water and one gold, and the sun is dry to C fire, which was born in ugly month, that is, December in winter. According to the above table, what is lacking most is wood, but this character is four fires and the sun is very dry. Such as year, month and day, but born in Wuzi, the eight characters are three fires, three soils and two waters, lacking wood and gold.

So birthdays cannot be changed. What can be done to remedy its shortcomings? The ancients thought that names could do this. That is, what is missing in the eight characters and five elements, and what is added to the name, such as the lack of wood mentioned above, the name can be called wood, or the words next to wood, such as Tongbai and Rusong, or something called wood, such as Liang Dong. If many trees are missing, there will be many trees in the name, such as Woods and even forests.

It is an ancient custom to name after the five elements in the eight characters. In his novel Hometown, Lu Xun wrote this account:

I've heard the name "Runtu" for a long time, and I know that I'm as old as him, and the five elements are short of soil, so his father called him "Runtu".

This is a typical example. In fact, in ancient times, when a child was born, it was very common for parents to go to Mr. Shu to work out the child's birthday and five elements. This birthday will not conflict with her spouse in future dating. So there are many people named after it. What kind of name to choose depends on the degree of missing five elements in the eight characters. For example, in Liu Song, there may be a lack of wood in the five elements, but not much. For example, Liu Songlin is short of wood, and for example, Liu Senlin is short of wood. In ancient times, people with names such as Sen, Yan, Xin, Miao and Yao were very common, but generally one of the five elements was missing. Both are indispensable, so we should make up for them. For example, those who are short of golden wood can be called Jingui, those who are short of water and soil can be called Tian Yu, and those who are short of gold for making a fire can be called Jin Yan. Because of birthdates, it's rare for the five elements to lack the third one.

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The above is the method of naming with the theory of five elements. Another method is also very common, that is, using the five elements principle to name the family lineage. In fact, in the birth, no matter what is lacking, there is always a line that belongs to the Lord, and this line will dominate fate. People born like this one 1937 12 13 are the fire of life. Then there is water life, earth life, gold life and wood life. The fortune teller said that this is the virtue of this person and the basis of his survival. This statement can be said to come from the analysis of ancient dynasties. During the Warring States Period, Zou Yan, a native of the State of Qi, founded the theory of "Five Virtues at the Beginning", believing that every dynasty had virtues that matched the five elements, which was the foundation of the country. Later, it was handed down from generation to generation and became a rigid theory. For example, Shang Dynasty is the virtue of water, Han Dynasty is the virtue of fire, and Song Dynasty is the virtue of fire, so there is a saying that Liu and Song Dynasties are inflamed. Some people hold the theory of mutual development about the law of regime change. For example, my grandfather was born in water, aquatic wood, my father was born in wood, wood makes a fire, and my son is the fire of life. To get a guarantor, it is necessary to match it, take the words on the edge of the five acts, and the father and son are one after another to form the order of the five elements. For example, Zhu, a philosopher in the Song Dynasty, had four words, namely fire. His father's name is Zhu Song and his son's name is Zhu Shu. Wood makes a fire, and fire is born in soil, which is not chaotic at all. This method of naming the five elements can not only express the paternal blood relationship, but also look at the generation of travelers, so it is somewhat similar to the generation of genealogy, which is of great ethical significance and was used by many people in ancient times.