What do you mean by the four pillars?

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.

1, annual column

Chronicle, that is, the year when a person was born, is expressed by the branches of the solar calendar, that is, the chronology of branches. The annual column update is based on the beginning of each spring. The four pillars and eight characters are all based on the solar terms, and do not refer to any lunar calendar content. Dry calendar belongs to solar calendar. Take beginning of spring as the first year.

2. Moon Column

The moon column, a branch of the lunar calendar, represents the festival when people are born. Note that the monthly branch is not divided by the first day of each month in the lunar calendar, but by festivals. The festival before the handover is the festival of last month, and the festival after the handover is the festival of next month.

3. Rizhu

The solar column refers to the phenomenon that when the weather is very cold and the sun just rises or sets, the flaky ice crystals in the atmosphere reflect the sunlight and produce a vertically extending light column directly above or below the sun, which generally lasts only about 1 minute.

4. Time bar

The trunk of birth time is the time column in the eight characters, and most of the trunk of time is not in the calendar, so it is necessary to calculate the trunk of time according to its birthday.

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Introduction to science—

Four-pillar prediction is the crystallization of Chinese people's wisdom, and it is a valuable experience summed up through thousands of years of ups and downs, big waves and repeated practice by countless historical forecasters. A large number of practices at home and abroad have proved that the four-column prediction not only has unique and magical functions of advanced prediction and advanced reflection, but also has extremely profound scientific theory and extremely valuable use value. With its strong vitality and scientific nature, it has been handed down to this day and attracted the attention of many scholars at home and abroad.

Therefore, the four pillars foresight is science, not feudal superstition, but dialectical materialism, not idealism. Some people say that they control their own destiny. This statement is essentially correct, but it must be based on predicting one's own destiny. If you don't know your own destiny, but want to control your own destiny, it's just empty talk and self-deception.

The essence of our prediction is based on the change of yin and yang, the restraint of five elements, and the time of birth. It is a subject that teaches people to seek good fortune and avoid evil.

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