Marriages in ancient times were usually made according to the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. Because the ancients believed that meeting before getting married was an ungrateful thing, couples could not meet before getting married. Most people only knew what their partner looked like when they were in the wedding chamber.
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So the two actually got married under the premise that they knew very little. So why did the ancients also meet someone who almost had to be in harmony with themselves, able to rely on each other and support their lives? This has to talk about the most important procedure in ancient times before engagement.
年合大子 is one of the traditional methods of marriage prediction. It was called "Buji" in ancient times and has a long historical and cultural origin. According to the year, month, day, time, place, five elements and zodiac sign of both parties. Combining the major fortune and current year, a comprehensive analysis of the fate, checking their mutual generation and restraint, and checking whether they can grow old together, is called the combination of the eight characters.
In fact, the eight characters refer to the time of birth of a person, because the ancients believed in , the five elements of , and believed that all things in the world have aura, and the state of the five elements at the moment of birth is called the eight characters.
So, why can we get married with eight characters? The ancients believed that two people who live together for a long time will interact due to the close distance between the two parties, and the result will be beneficial to one party, or benefit to both parties, or harm to both parties.
In ancient times, people got married in "eight characters" not for the love between two people, but for the hope of ensuring that they can grow old until they grow old. That is to ensure that the two of them can support each other and will not make the family mess up because of their disagreement.
