What’s going on with the birth date!

What are birth dates? What does the birth date mean?

In ancient times, the four stems and branches of year, month, day and hour were used to express the time of birth of a person. Each stem and branch has one character, and the eight characters are the eight characters. It is commonly known as the birth horoscope or the eight characters or the four pillars. It can be seen that the eight characters are also part of the birth information. a method of expression.

Four-column prediction is a branch of information prediction science developed on the basis of "Book of Changes". Zhouyi Bagua is the study of unfixed information about people or things, while Four-Pillar is the study of fixed information about people.

Birthday horoscopes, or eight characters, are actually another way of saying the four pillars in the Zhouyi terminology. The four pillars refer to the time of birth, namely year, month, day and hour. Humans use one word each for heavenly stems and earthly branches to express year, month, day and time, such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, Xinchou day, Renyin time, etc. Each column has two characters, and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "testing eight characters". According to the relationship between the heavenly stems, earthly branches, yin and yang and the five elements' attributes, we can speculate on the faults, misfortunes and blessings of the human body.