What does birthday mean?

Birthdates refers to the calendar date of a person's birth, which consists of four columns, each column has two words, a total of eight words.

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; A total of four pillars, four stems and four branches, a total of eight words, so it is called a birthday.

Among them, ten days are dry and twelve branches are underground. "Ten-day work" is: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. The "Twelve Earthly Branches" are Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.

Every year is represented by the combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches, such as the year of Xin and Chou. Every month is represented by heavenly stems and earthly branches combination, such as Geng Yinyue, every day by heavenly stems and earthly branches combination, such as Ding Weiri, and every hour by heavenly stems and earthly branches combination, such as Geng Xushi.

When calculating the annual trunk branch, you can subtract 3 from the known year, then divide it by 10 to get the heavenly stem, and divide it by 12 to get the earthly branch. If it is divisible, it is the last place. Jiazi, ugly, 60 years of reincarnation. 20 16 is the year of Shen bing. So 20 15 is year B, and 20 17 is year D .. And so on.

How to learn about birthdays

As we all know, the ancients used heavenly stems and earthly branches to date the year, and a person's birthday actually used the eight Chinese characters heavenly stems and earthly branches to date the year: year, month, day and hour. Each of the four words is represented by a heavenly stem and a earthly branch, so there are eight words, namely, four heavenly stems and four earthly branches.

For example, this year's 20 17, according to the main branch, is Ding Younian, Ding is heavenly stem, You is earthly branch, Ding is fire, and You is gold. Find out the five elements of heavenly stems and earthly branches in the year of birth, and then find out the branches of the month, day and time, and then find out all the five elements of birth.

Therefore, it depends on whether there are five elements missing in a person's horoscope, that is, it is necessary to analyze whether there are corresponding elements missing in the four heavenly stems and earthly branches that make up the horoscope. For example, these four heavenly stems and four earthly branches do not contain five elements of water, that is, the eight-character water shortage or the hit water shortage.