The ancients took the sky as their work and the earth as their support. There are ten kinds of heavenly stems, including: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost. There are twelve branches, including Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Mi, Shen, You, E and Hai. Heavenly stems and earthly branches used to record the sun. Ten stems and twelve branches are combined into sixty units in turn, with odd stems and odd branches, and even stems and even branches. From Jiazi to Guihai, * * * shuyun Ten is called Yunshijiazi. The ancients recorded the year, month and day in this way, and so on and so forth.
The ancients divided a day and night into twelve hours, one hour is equivalent to two hours in modern times, starting at 23 o'clock in modern times and ending at 1 point, followed by Ugly Time, Yin Shi Time, Shi Mao Time, Chen Shishi, Shi Si Time, Noon Time, Inappropriate Time, Shenshi Time, Youshi Time and Shihaishi Time. For example, the representative of modern Shi Mao is from 5 am to 7 am, and so on.
Heavenly stems and earthly branches is not only a tool for the ancients to calculate the life span of stars, but also a calendar for timing and lettering, which is closely related to the history, culture and daily life of China.
Heavenly stems and earthly branches Yin-Yang and Five Elements
Everything in the world has yin and yang. The extinction wavelength of yin and yang is caused by the interaction of five elements. And man himself is a microcosm of the world. Corresponding to the diversity of the world, when a person is born, he can tell the fate of a certain life through the interpretation of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. The human body is composed of five elements, and the different temperament of the five elements in the human body is determined by many phenomena such as the sunshine of the sun when he was born, the gravity of the earth, the position of the stars and the climate. The natural environment at birth is different, and the five elements of qi are also different, so the fate of life is also different.
The coordination of Yin and Yang in heavenly stems and earthly branches is very simple, that is, the odd number is positive and the even number is negative, that is, the heavenly stems are positive for A, C, E, G and nonyl, the negative numbers are B, D, G, Xin and Gui, the earthly branches are positive for Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen and E, and the negative numbers are ugly, Mao, Si, Wei, unitary and Hai.
Heavenly stems and earthly branches's cooperation with the Five Elements is slightly complicated. In the sky, A and B belong to wood, C and D belong to fire, E and E belong to soil, G and Xin belong to gold, but not to water. In the earthly branches, Yin, Mao and Chen belong to wood, Si, Wu and Chen belong to fire, Shen, You and Xu belong to gold, Hai, Zi and Ugly belong to water, Chen, E and Ugly belong to earth.
There are differences in the above cooperation. First, the heavenly stems and five elements are stronger than the earthly branches. Second, because heavenly stems and earthly branches is divided into Yin and Yang, heavenly stems and earthly branches, one of the five elements, is also different. Just as both A and B belong to wood, A is a male wood, a column wood, and B is a female wood, a flower and fruit wood. Third, every three words in the earthly branch constitute one of the five elements. The first word is initial prosperity, the second word is extremely prosperous, and the third word is gradual decline, representing the development and changes of the five elements. Fourthly, in addition to the original qi, the earthly branches also contain one or more components of the heavenly stems. Respectively, the vitality of the child is water; Ugliness is its own soil, and it also contains Jin Xin and Guishui. The original qi of yin is that there are both C fire and E soil; There are only two books in this spirit; Chen's original gas is bentonite, with both ethyl wood and cinnamon water; The original gas is fire C, and it is also heptyl gold and bentonite. At noon, the original gas is Ding Huo, which also contains its own soil components; It's not the original gas, it's the second soil, there are both the second wood and the Ding Huo; Shenyuan gas is heptyl gold, which contains both water and bentonite. The unitary system is the spirit of Jin Xin; The raw gas is bentonite, including Jin Xin and Ding Huo. The original gas of the sea is that water has both nails and wood.
The relationship between the four seasons of the five elements and five parties
Five directions refer to five directions: east, south, west, north and middle. The five elements and the heavenly stems and earthly branches they represent all have their own directions. That is, the Oriental Lord A, B, Yin and Mao Zhimu; The southern main fire at C, D, Thursday and noon; The gold of western masters Geng, Xin, Shen and You; The water lords in the north, decyl, hai and zi; China focuses on Wu, Ji, Chen, Xu, Ugly and Unforeseen.
The orientation of the five elements is very important to astrology. We can know the trend of a person's eight characters through the attribution of Yin and Yang and the five elements, and we can know good or bad luck through the theory of mutual restraint. For example, it is most beneficial for people with wooden characters to go east, or south or north, but not west, because going west is covered with gold. Those who make fire had better go to the south, while those who go to the north make water. People with golden fate should go west, and if they go south, they will be burned to death. People with water life should go north, but it is unlucky to go to the center.
The four seasons refer to spring, summer, autumn and winter. Heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Five Elements have their ups and downs in the four seasons. In the theory of star destiny, prosperity, phase, rest, sleepiness and death respectively represent the ups and downs of the five elements in the four seasons. Prosperity means prosperity; The two phases are prosperous and have the meaning of assistance; Hugh means to rest and stop; Being trapped means falling and being stopped; To die is to be bound and lifeless. Generally speaking, when order is prosperous, I am born, the first to retreat, the others are sleepy, and the others die.
In spring, all kinds of trees revive, so the wood is in season, and the wood is "prosperous", and its branches are A, B, Yin, Mao and Chen. Fire is related to surgery, so fire belongs to "phase" in spring. But raw wood is water, so water belongs to "Hugh" in spring. What sticks to wood is gold, and gold is "sleepy" in spring. But Mu Ke's is soil, so the soil is "dead" in spring.
Summer is the season of filariasis, and the fire is "flourishing". Branches are C, D, IV, V, Wei, etc. Fire gives birth to soil, so soil belongs to "phase" in summer. The man who makes a fire is a piece of wood, and wood belongs to Hugh in summer. Water is fire, and summer water is "sleepy". Fire is golden, and Xia Tianjin "dies".
Autumn is the golden harvest season, and gold is "prosperous". Its branches are Geng, Xin, Shen, You and Xu. Gold begets water, so autumn water belongs to "phase". Gold makers are soil, and soil belongs to autumn "Hugh". Jinke belongs to fire, and fire is "sleepy" in autumn. Wood died in autumn.
Winter is the season of cold condensation, and water is "prosperous". They belong to branches such as people, ghosts, sea, children and ugliness. Among aquatic wood, winter wood belongs to "phase". The producer of water is gold, and the metal "rests" in winter. It is the soil that blocks the water, and the soil is "sleepy" in winter. Water can kill fire, which is "dead" in winter.
Earth is popular in the four seasons, that is, the last month of the four seasons is the peak season.