Can men and women heavenly stems and earthly branches get married?

In ancient times, when choosing a spouse for children, people who were more particular had to get married in eight characters. Generally, it is appropriate for the man to find out the woman's age and appearance and understand her family background. Then he asked the middleman to get out the horoscope of both sides and find a fortune teller to see if it was suitable. If appropriate, proceed to the next step. For example, in Jin Ping Mei, Meng Yulou remarried and solemnly crossed the eight characters.

Whether a marriage is happy or not, it is important that both sides have harmonious feelings and similar interests. With this premise, you don't have to consider the problem of eight characters. The more you measure, the more likely it is to go wrong, add it to your heart, leave a shadow in your subconscious, and affect your words and deeds and consequences.

Generally speaking, eight-character marriages have a set of fixed rules, and fortune tellers make judgments according to this set of rules, and some people will take advantage of this.

Just as we have a lot of academic fraud and resume fraud today, some people faked the eight characters in ancient times. False academic qualifications are easy to see through, and it is difficult to find out if the eight characters are fake, because no one will care about their children's birthdays except their parents.

Ji Zongmeng is a juren, handsome in appearance and good in character. He was the magistrate of Hangzhou during the reign of Kangxi. He is proficient in eight characters, calculated his own destiny in his early years, and thought that he could be a senior official with four qualities.

Later, when his wife died, many people took the initiative to marry their daughters to him. Ji Zongmeng looked at their eight characters, and none of them were suitable.

A rich man's daughter is almost thirty years old and not married. The rich man heard that Ji Zongmeng paid the most attention to eight characters, so he asked a fortune teller to look at his daughter's eight characters. The result is very bad, it is a heinous life, and it is not good in all aspects.

The rich man asked the fortune teller to change a good word for his daughter. In this way, my daughter's birthday has completely changed. Take this character and find someone to find Ji Zongmeng as a matchmaker. At first glance, this is a good life.