Overview of finger pinching and calculation

(1) Most fortune tellers use the phrase "Wait till I squeeze my fingers to calculate". This seems mysterious, but it is actually just a method to calculate heavenly stems and earthly branches: the coordination of the ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches generally requires pen and paper, but the ancients rarely had the opportunity to use pen and paper when calculating numerology. So just divide your fingers into three sections and fix them for ten days. When they coincide with the twelve earthly branches, you need to read the earthly branches according to your knuckles, so you can quickly calculate the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the year and month, and you can get it when you pinch your fingers.

(2) Pinyin

Meaning: or use hand index, metaphorically speaking, the number is small. With "one hand counts".