What do the four pillars represent?

Four pillars is a term in the Book of Changes. In ancient times, astrologers arranged four columns with the characters of year, month, day and time. The four pillars are the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth, which are called the annual column, the moon column, the sun column and the time column respectively.

The four pillars are the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth, which are called the year pillar, the moon pillar, the sun pillar and the time pillar respectively. In the chronology of heavenly stems and earthly branches, there are two words in each column, and the word * * * is also called birthday, which is used to calculate personal fortune. The specific explanation is as follows:

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. There were Xu Juyi in the Five Dynasties, a Taoist monk in the Song Dynasty, Dasheng Xu in the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty, Shen Xiaozhan, Chen Su 'an, Wei Qianli and Yuan Shushan as iron bridges in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhang Donghai today. Mr Xu Chaochao and Mr Huang brought fortune-telling back to science in China. 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.

Ancient numerology, commonly known as fortune telling, is also called pushing four pillars or approving eight characters. It is based on heavenly stems and earthly branches, the representative of a person's date of birth, the Book of Changes, and the restraint of Yin and Yang and the five elements as a means to predict a person's good or bad life. It is a theory of blending philosophy and natural science, and it is an important category of Zhouyi prediction. For thousands of years, through people's continuous development and improvement, a relatively complete theoretical system has been formed, which has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and lasted for a long time, showing strong vitality.