What is the eight characters? What does eight characters mean?

1, eight characters, that is, the date of birth, is the date of the official calendar when a person is born. Annual stems and branches form annual columns, monthly stems and branches form monthly columns, daily stems and branches form daily columns, and seasonal stems and branches form hourly columns; One * * * four pillars, four stems and four branches * * * eight characters, so it is also called four pillars and eight characters. Eight-character numerology is a kind of knowledge that infers people's career, marriage, wealth, study, health and other things according to the theories of trunk and branch calendar, yin and yang and five elements. Also called Fan Fortune-telling, it is a fortune-telling method with a long history in China.

2.birthdates (abbreviated as eight characters) refers to the calendar date of a person's birth, and the date of birth is * * * four-column branch, with two words in each column, a total of eight words.

3. Birthday plays an important role in Chinese folk beliefs, and Taoist priests and astrologers in ancient China calculated people's fate accordingly. In the almanac, there are basically annual and daily branches, while monthly and hourly branches can be calculated according to the annual and daily branches.