Ming dynasty fortune telling _ Ming dynasty fortune telling book

Who discovered the rationality of four pillars and eight characters?

Li (762-8 13), a native of Wei (now a famous name in Hebei), is an important figure in the development history of eight-character divination. He is an official in the temple and usually studies Yin-Yang and Five Elements. He can infer the dignity and longevity of a person's life, whether it is good or bad, according to the date of birth. There used to be a view that Li only used the year, month and day to tell fortune, but now this view is considered wrong. Han Yu, a writer, spoke highly of him, saying that he was "the deepest in the five elements, taking the dates of death, birth and death as the basis, taking into account the pros and cons of life and pushing forward the pros and cons of life." Here, the date of death is time. Li's fortune-telling was accurate and he was famous at that time. Later generations also called him the founder of eight-character fortune telling. Li's method of speculating a person's good or bad according to the date of birth was further developed and perfected in the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, and the eight-character fortune-telling officially entered a mature and complete stage. The greatest contribution to fortune-telling is to further evolve Li's calculation method of year, month and day into a "four pillars and eight characters" method for predicting year, month and day at the same time. In order to commemorate his important contribution, people often refer to the eight-character fortune-telling as "Zi Ping Shu". In Song Dynasty, Xu Zisheng compiled Yuan Hai Zi Ping according to the research results of Xu Ziping's numerology, which is one of the most important works in the history of eight-character divination. This book is now widely popular in Hongkong and Taiwan Province. The Ming Dynasty was the heyday of the development of eight-character fortune telling. Song Lian, the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, wrote the article "Argument on the Bright Road", which systematically summarized the historical origin of China's numerology for the first time. At that time, writings on numerology mushroomed. Liu Ji's Tian Di Sui, Shen Xiaozhan's Zi Ping Zhen Quan, Wan Minying's San Tong Ming Hui, and Shen Feng's Shenfeng Tongkao Numerology True Sect are well-known and of high quality, among which Wan Minying's San Tong Ming Hui has the greatest influence and the best reputation.