What is the eight-character graphic method?
Although there are only eight characters, the relationship between them is really complicated. Eight-character is an important number in China tradition, which integrates the theory of Yin-Yang image number, the theory of five elements and the theory of branching.
Because the basic theories of Yin-Yang, Ganzhi and other eight characters have not been unified, and the eight-character numerology theory has undergone many changes, resulting in many schools, and the theories of various schools have many shortcomings, and the redemption rate is not high enough, which makes it difficult for scholars to achieve anything.
The ancient eight-character theory is basically based on the balance of the yen and has been passed down to this day. The traditional school can basically continue the modern theory. This school is mostly beginners, traditional scholars and other people who have not studied much because of the lack of ancient theoretical basis, and because of their lack of easy-to-learn knowledge, the judgment of the eight characters is often not verified.
Due to the deficiency of traditional theory, the modern eight-character theory has been innovated. The contents of innovation include the redefinition of yin and yang, five elements and branches, and the new theory of the position of branches and the relationship between branches and grams of eight characters, which abandons some unexperienced statements such as magic and evil. The new theory combines the image and reason of eight characters, which makes great progress in the research and practice of eight characters. However, due to the different starting points and emphases, it can be divided into two groups: the school with strict theory and the school with eight characters as the main image.
The rationalist school has a clear definition of the basic theory of eight characters, focusing on the relationship between birth and grams of the five elements and their balancing effect on the yen, so as to judge the image and life characteristics represented by each branch and palace. In recent years, the new school theories, such as Liu and Liu's four-pillar theory of yin and yang, and the new school's eight characters all belong to this category. This school is rigorous in theory, not prone to human error in judgment, and has a high forecast cash rate. Development history of eight characters
The ancients believed that heaven can kill people, so the so-called destiny is destiny. As early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, he was engraved on the Zhong Ding and even in the hearts of his ancestors. Confucius, the ancestor of Confucianism revered from generation to generation, was also a loyal Old Master Q Ah Q. In his early years, Confucius traveled around the world, pushing his own political opinions everywhere, trying to be benevolent, but he was dusty and poor. After a rebuff, Confucius realized that fate had played such a cruel joke on people, so he let out a sigh of knowing his fate after he was in his fifties. In addition, he and his disciples also advocated life and death, wealth in the sky, ignorance, no gentleman, a gentleman living in a comfortable place waiting for his life, a villain desperate for luck. Mencius' understanding of destiny went further, "Mencius? Zhang Wan said, "If you don't do well, it's heaven. "Those who come for no reason will die.
By the Han dynasty, Confucianism was popular all over the world, and the concept of destiny was more deeply rooted in people's hearts. Dong Zhongshu, Yang Xiong and others, Huai Nanzi and Bai Hutong are all advocates or believers of fate theory. Even Wang Chong, an outstanding atheist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, believed in fate.