Introductory course of Eight Characters that you can understand at a glance (2) What is Yin and Yang? What are the five elements?
In the first lesson, we briefly introduced two basic concepts of Bazi learning , namely Bazi and Nayin (folk name). Let’s review the past and learn new things:
Eight characters are also called four pillars, which are composed of eight Chinese characters. Among them, each year, month, day and time accounts for one pillar, so it is called the four pillars! The four pillars have four heavenly stems and four earthly branches. No matter how the changes are, the heavenly stems can only be four of the ten Chinese characters (Jia Yi Bing Ding Wu Ji Geng Xin Ren Gui); the earthly branches can only be four of the twelve Chinese characters (Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen You Xu Hai). Do you think these twelve Chinese characters are very familiar with? That's right, the twelve earthly branches corresponds to the twelve zodiac signs, namely: zodiac rat octopus yin tiger matte rabbit, chen dragon snake wu horse wei sheep , Shen monkey rooster xu dog hai pig. It should be noted that the order of the heavenly stems and the earthly branches should not be messed up. If you find it troublesome, you can also use numbers instead.
Nayin is what the people call fate. It artificially divides people into thirty categories. Every two years it is a Nayin, such as 1984 Jiazi and 1985 Yichou. Nayin is both Haizhongjin . But how many people are born every day in the world? There are many different months and dates. Can you say that people in the past two years have the same temperament and career development? Obviously not, so the five elements of Na Yin were abandoned by the Four Pillar Master Xu Ziping in the Song Dynasty! If you have to talk about the fate of the eight characters, then the eight characters in the original chart are four pillars, which can be called the fate chart. The combination of stems and branches extended from the month order is the major fortune, which is generally arranged in eight steps. Every year is called the current year. For example, 2022 is the current year of Renyin, which is divided into the current month. For example, today's October 17th of the Gregorian calendar, the stems and branches of the month and the day are: Gengxu months and Guimao day. This is a symbolic system used by the ancients to express time and direction. Based on the specific time and place of a person's birth, the coordinates of time and space are formed and people are integrated. In this way, the three of heaven, earth and man can be deduced by this set of eight-character semiotics in the future. Because of its profound and mysteriousness, few people know it, it is called metaphysics by the world!
The most basic symbols of Bazi studies are Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, so what is Yin and Yang?
To put it simply, Yin and Yang is to treat anything in two, summarizing four words: dialectical treatment! If a person has hands and feet, the hands are on the top, which is Yang; if the feet are on the bottom, it is Yin; if there are two hands, the left side is Yang, and the right side must be Yin; if the hand has the palm of the hand and the back of the hand, if the back of the hand is Yang, the palm of the hand is Yin. If the yang is defeated, the yin will decline! But the lonely yang does not grow, and the lonely yin does not grow! Today's quantum mechanics can prove that this is a fact! Therefore, whether it is material civilization or spiritual civilization, simply emphasizing one aspect or abandoning the other side will inevitably violate the rules of the universe, and problems will be born!
Five Elements, what are the five elements? I believe you will often see the idiom similar to the yin and yang and five elements. Yin and yang are indeed inseparable. Yin and yang are interpreted by the five elements. The five elements should be based on the Tao as the criterion! The journey here means movement and the rules of movement! Whether it is yin and yang or the five elements, it can be metaphysical qi or physical ! The five elements are simply different laws of the five elements. The ancients named the five elements: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal! The five stars in the sky, the four seasons on the earth, and the five internal organs on the human body!
The most basic functions between the five elements are mutual generation and mutual restraint. The order of mutual generation is: Tianyi produces water, water produces wood , wood produces fire , fire produces earth, earth produces metal, and metal produces water! The rule of mutual restraint is: separate one and mutual restraint! That is, water overcomes fire, fire overcomes metal, metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth , earth overcomes water!
In addition to the relationship between birth and restraint, there are five different states in the four seasons of the world, namely, the prosperity of the body and the rest of the body and the death of death, such as the prosperity of the wood in spring, the rest of the summer, the long summer, the death of the autumn, and the winter!