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1. Yin and Yang
Regarding "Yin and Yang", the "Yi Zhuan" explains: "One Yin and One Yang is called Tao." Everything in the universe is composed of two forces called Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang are divided into "Odd Yang and Even Yin". Those born in the five Yang years (odd years) of Jia, Bing, Wu, Geng, and Ren are called "Yang men" for men and "Yang women" for women. On the contrary, those born in the years of Yi, Ding, Ji, Xin, and Gui (even years) are called "Yin men" for men and "Yin women" for women.

2. Five Elements
In Han culture, the ancients regarded wood, fire, earth, gold, and water as the five basic substances that constitute the universe. Each of the five elements contains life and death. The viewpoint of the eight-character fate theory advocates that "the one who lives has feelings, and the one who is restrained has righteousness". The life and death strive to be neutralized and balanced. Any excessive or insufficient life, excessive or insufficient restraint, etc., all have negative effects.

3. Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, also known as Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, are said to have been created by the Yellow Emperor. In addition to being used to calculate time or date, they are also considered to be the epitome of the universe. However, the two have different properties. The Heavenly Stems are active and the Earthly Branches are static. Since the Heavenly Stems have their own active mobility, their actual influence is greater than that of the static Earthly Branches. The interaction between the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, such as "generation, restraint, transformation, combination, punishment and conflict", is the basic principle of fortune-telling in Bazi numerology.

4. Eight-character numerology
The eight-character numerology is based on a person's birth time, including the hour, day, month, and year. It can be converted into the arrangement and combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches according to the perpetual calendar. It can be divided into the hour column of "hour stem and hour branch", the day column of "day stem and day branch", the month column of "month stem and month branch", and the year column of "year stem and year branch", totaling "four pillars and eight characters". This method was created by Xu Ziping and is also commonly known as "Zi Ping School" or "Four Pillars and Eight Characters School".

The core of the Bazi analysis includes the following aspects:

Four Pillars:
The "four pillars" in Bazi refer to the year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, and hour pillar. Each pillar consists of a heavenly stem and an earthly branch, a total of eight characters, so it is called "Bazi". The order of the four pillars is: the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the year of birth are the year pillar, the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the month of birth are the month pillar, the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the date of birth are the day pillar, and the heavenly stems and earthly branches of the hour of birth are the hour pillar.

Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches:
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are the system used by ancient China to keep time. There are ten Heavenly Stems: Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui; there are twelve Earthly Branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in each pillar are combined to form each character in Bazi.

Yin Yang Five Elements:
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in Bazi correspond to the Five Elements (gold, wood, water, fire, and earth) and have Yin Yang attributes. The relationship between the five elements and the balance of yin and yang are important bases for analyzing the fate.

Ten Gods:
The Ten Gods are another set of symbol systems in the eight characters, which are used to represent the relationship between the life owner (i.e. the day master) and other stems and branches. The Ten Gods include the direct seal, partial seal, direct official, seven kills, direct wealth, partial wealth, food god, wounded official, equal shoulder and robbery wealth. Each of the Ten Gods has its specific symbolic meaning, which is used to analyze the personality, career, marriage and other aspects of the life owner.

Fate analysis:
The process of fortune-telling with eight characters includes arranging the plate, analyzing the fate, and calculating the great fortune and the fleeting year. Arranging the plate is to generate a eight-character plate based on the time of birth. Analyzing the fate is to infer the personality and destiny of the life owner based on the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the balance of the five elements, and the relationship between the ten gods in the eight characters. The great fortune and the fleeting year predict the changes in the fortune of the life owner in different time periods through the "great fortune" of a decade and the "fleeing year" of each year.

Evil spirits:
Evil spirits are some special symbols in the eight characters, which are used to supplement the interpretation of the eight-character fate. They usually indicate special destiny characteristics, such as peach blossom (related to love), general star (related to power), etc.

Bazi analysis attempts to reveal the trends and possible events in a person's destiny through complex calculations and analysis.

The five elements of good fortune refer to the five elements that play the best role in supplementing the day master (i.e., the heavenly stem of the birth date) in the eight-character fate. The method of querying the five elements of good fortune usually includes the following steps:

Determine the heavenly stem of the birth date: that is, the day master.

Analyze the eight-character fate: According to the combination of the four pillars and eight characters, analyze the generation, restraint and control relationship between the five elements, as well as the strength and needs of the day master.

Determine the good fortune: According to the five elements of the day master and the balance of the five elements in the fate, determine the five elements that are most beneficial to the day master as the good fortune.

Brief description of the five elements of good fortune:

Gold: Likes earth to generate gold, water to leak gold, and hates fire to overcome gold, and wood to consume gold.

Wood: Likes water to generate wood, fire to leak wood, and hates gold to overcome wood, and earth to consume wood.

Water: Likes gold to generate water, wood to leak water, and hates earth to overcome water, and fire to consume water.

Fire: Likes wood to generate fire, earth to leak fire, and hates water to overcome fire, and gold to consume fire.
Earth: Fire is favorable to earth, metal releases earth energy, wood is unfavorable to earth, and water consumes earth.
However, it should be noted that the query of the five elements' favorable and useful gods is not a simple judgment of the relationship between generation and restraint, but requires a comprehensive consideration of the overall situation of the eight-character destiny.

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