What is birthdates?

To put it simply: heavenly stems and earthly branches, born in the year, month, day and hour, is birthdates.

"Dry" refers to heavenly stems, and there are ten kinds, namely, A, B, C, D, Xu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui.

"Zhi" refers to "earthly branch", including twelve: Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Ji, Wu, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

Heavenly stems and earthly branches collocates one word each, and collocates in sequence, that is, from Jiazi, Emei ... to Guihai, which is exactly 60 groups in a cycle. Therefore, it is called "sixty flowers".

The lunar calendar invented in ancient China, also known as the official calendar, records the year, month, day and hour with "sixty flowers", thus recording a person's birth time. Year, month, day and hour each have the word "dry branch", which adds up to eight words, commonly known as "birthday".

For example, a baby boy was born on June 2002 10 at 4: 2 1.

September 5, 2002 at 4: 2 1.

"Birthday" is: Ren Wugeng Xu Xinhai Geng Yin.

Annual branch: Renwu

Monthly Branch: Geng Xu

Japan branch: Xinhai

Time Branch: Geng Yin