the date of birth and the eight characters of a horoscopeThe eight characters of birth were a term used in the Book of Changes. The four pillars were the time when a person was born, including the year pillar, the moon pillar, the sun pillar, and the time pillar. In ancient times, the year, month, day and hour were represented by the combination of one word from the heavenly stem and one word from the earthly branch, such as the year of Jiazi, the month of Bingshen, the day of Xinchou, the hour of Renyin, etc. Each column in the eight characters was two words, and the four columns had eight characters in total, which was called eight characters for short. It contained the basic state of the celestial bodies when a person was born. It was represented by the ancient heavenly and earthly years, such as "A, B, C, Ding, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao," instead of Arabic numbers.
The method of divination with eight characters originated in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Li Xuzhong proposed that the quality of a person's "fate" was determined by the three factors of the year, month, and day of birth. In the Five Dynasties (Song Dynasty), Xu Ziping created the "Zhengwu Xing" Eight Characters Yi Xiang, adding "time" on the basis of Li Xuzhong's point of view, and each factor was represented by two words, forming the "Eight Characters of Birth". The four pillars of divination originated from ancient astrology. The ancients believed that heaven and earth corresponded, and the nine provinces corresponded to the stars. The metal, wood, water, fire, and earth that constituted the world corresponded to Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn in the sky. The sun was yang, and the moon was yin. The fate of people was affected by the five elements of the stars. The ancient Chinese combined the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches into 60 years as the unit of time. 60 years was either "one year" or "60 years". The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Calendar was the longest used calendar in the world. Later, it was also used in the fields of year, month, time, divination, and divination. In the traditional marriage custom, there was a marriage custom. Both men and women exchanged Geng Tie with the eight characters of their birth. Both parties asked each other about the yin and yang of the other party's fate to determine whether they were married or not and good or bad luck.
The Eight Character Numerology used the eight characters of one's birth as the research object to predict one's fate. Its theory originated from the Xia Dynasty and was first seen in Yuanhai Ziping. The eight characters of a person's birthday were made up of the year, month, day, and time. It was equivalent to an individual's destiny gene. Through the mutual promotion and restriction of the five elements, it formed the trajectory of fate. Its theoretical framework included the relationship between the five elements (such as metal producing water, water producing wood, etc.), as well as the relationship between the five elements, such as prosperity and imprisonment, yin and yang producing restraint, and punishment and harm. There were many related works such as Human Body Biorhythm and Three Life Tonghui, which explained the principles, methods, and application skills of the eight-character divination.
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