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Today we are talking about the 1st lesson of the eight characters, so what are the eight characters? Some people call it the four pillars of eight characters, some call it the eight characters of birth. For example, if you find a person to calculate the eight characters, first he asks for your birth year, month, day and hour, then he checks the almanac to arrange the eight characters, so as to speculate your good fortune and bad fortune.

For example, today is 12:18 on November 13, 2017 in the solar calendar, we check the almanac 2017 is the year of Ding You, November is Xinhai month, the 13th is the day of A Chen, 12:18 is the noon hour, for G Wu time.

What about the eight characters, it is made up of eight characters, so it is called eight characters. The eight characters of birth are based on the year, month, day and hour of your birth, the four pillars, namely the year pillar, the month pillar, the day pillar and the hour pillar. Our eight characters are derived from the stem-branch calendar. The calendar we commonly use now is the A.D. commemorative method, such as A.D. 2017 and A.D. 1894. The A.D. commemorative method starts with the year of Jesus\’ birth and goes forward as the number of years B.C. and goes backward as the number of years A.D. After the founding of New China, China also adopted the A.D. method of commemoration because most countries at that time adopted the A.D. method of commemoration. To be in line with international standards, China also adopted the A.D. method, but at the same time, it did not abolish our traditional Chinese calendar: the stem and branch calendar. For example, if you check the almanac, 2017 is definitely the year of Ding You, when you watch the Spring Festival Gala, they say the year of Ding You or the year of the rooster, You Jin represents the rooster is derived from our traditional Chinese calendar, the dry branch calendar.

This Guangxu 20 years is the year number legislation, the year number is what calendar it is, it is the year number of the ancient Chinese emperor reign, named after him, so called the year number calendar. The First Sino-Japanese War, the First Sino-Japanese War took place in 1894, which is the 20th year of Guangxu, and I believe we all know that the First Sino-Japanese War is the Year of the First Sino-Japanese War, which is also our traditional Chinese calendar, the stem and branch calendar.

How did the stem-branch calendar come about? You can check the detailed information, I will briefly introduce, the ancients usually in production and the law of life, in the observation of the sun, moon and stars in order, so as to deduce the stem and branch calendar, this stem is 10 days stem, branch is 12 earth branch, also 12 months. The heavenly stem and the earthly branch cooperate, a total combination of 60 groups, that is, 60 Azi, from the Azi to the decay of a total of 60 years, 60 years a cycle, endlessly, the cycle begins again and again.

Basic Eight Characters video 01-36 episodes