How to calculate the trunk and branch (master the calculation method of trunk and branch)

Heavenly stems and earthly branches is a way of timing in the ancient calendar of China, which is composed of heavenly stems and earthly branches. There are ten heavenly stems, namely, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. There are twelve branches, namely, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. These two parts combine with each other to form a combination of 60 heavenly stems and earthly branches, which is used to indicate time and year.

What about heavenly stems and earthly branches?

In the traditional culture of China, heavenly stems and earthly branches is widely used in numerology, divination and geomancy. Therefore, it is very necessary to know how to calculate heavenly stems and earthly branches. The following are the specific steps:

1. Determine the year of birth of heavenly stems and earthly branches.

First, you should know your birth year, and then find the corresponding heavenly stems and earthly branches according to the ranking order of heavenly stems and earthly branches. For example, if you were born in 1990, your heavenly stems are Geng and your earthly branches are noon.

2. Determine the birth month of heavenly stems and earthly branches.

Next, determine your birth month in heavenly stems and earthly branches. Heavenly stems and earthly branches is different in different months, as follows:

65438+ 10 month: Bing Yin February: Ding Mao March: Chen Wu April: Keith May: Gengwu June: Xin Wei.

July: Renshen August: Gui You September: JOE 65438+ 10: Yihai 165438+ 10: Bingzi 65438+February: Ding Chou.

Take 1990 65438+ a person born in February as an example. heavenly stems and earthly branches was born in Ding Chou.

3. Determine heavenly stems and earthly branches's birthday

Finally, make sure your birthday is heavenly stems and earthly branches. According to the sorting order of heavenly stems and earthly branches, each heavenly stems and earthly branches corresponds to a number, starting with 1. For example, Jiazi corresponds to 1, Ugly B corresponds to 2, and so on. Therefore, if you want to use heavenly stems and earthly branches to determine your birthday, you need to first determine when the Spring Festival of your birth year is in the Gregorian calendar, and then find the corresponding heavenly stems and earthly branches according to the difference between the date in the Gregorian calendar and the Spring Festival date. For example,1heavenly stems and earthly branches, born on February 25th, 990, is Nuo Nuo.