Monday, August 5, 2013

Lotuschef on Bazi 八字 [1]

Terjemahan Indonesia: Mengenai Bazi 八字 [1]
Quoted from Wikipedia – Four Pillars of Destiny


Four Pillars of Destiny is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean conceptual term that describes the four components creating a person's destiny or fate.


The four components within the moment of birth are year, month, day, and hour. 

The four pillars is used alongside fortune telling practices such as Zǐ wēi dòu shù within the realm of Chinese Astrology. Comparisons have been made between Western Astrology and BaZi. 

However, unlike Astrology, BaZi analysis does not look at an 'alignment' of celestial bodies of stars and planets. It is based on the 'alignment' of blocks of time delineated by the Wan Nian Li, (萬年曆) the famous "10,000 year" Chinese almanac


Etymology


The four pillars is an English translation of the Chinese dynastic phrase "Shēng Chén Bā Zì". The Chinese term (生辰八字, ShēngChén BāZì) translates to "The Eight Characters of Birth Time". This is also referred to by the Chinese term (四柱命理學, Sì Zhù MìngLǐ Xué) which translates to Study of "Four Pillars of Life" Principles.

Commonly referred to by the shortened terms, "Four Pillars" or "BāZì", one of the most frequently used alternate phrase is "Four Pillars of your birth time". 

It is called BāZì (八字), Eight Characters, because each of the four pillars (representing the year, month, day, and hour of one's birth respectively) is represented by two characters; one character for a Heavenly Stem and one character for an Earthly Branch

There are 10 Heavenly Stems (天干; TiānGān) and 12 Earthly Branches (地支; DìZhī). 
The 12 zodiac animal reference is a folkloric representation of the 12 Earthly Branches.

A good four pillars was that of Qianlong Emperor.


Schools


The schools are the Scholarly School (學院派; XuéYuàn Pài) and the Professional School (江湖派; JiāngHú Pài).

The Scholarly School began with Xú ZiPíng 徐子平 at the beginning of Song Dynasty. Xu founded the pure theoretical basis of the system. Ever since then, scholars continued to do research work on the system and published their work for further development. Representatives of this school and their publications include:

Song Dynasty (宋)
Ming Dynasty (明)
  • Dī Tiān Suǐ 滴天髓
  • Sān Mìng Tōng Kuài 三命通會, by Wàn MínYīng 万民英
  • Míng Wàn YùWú 明萬育吾
  • Míng Liú Jī 明劉基 
Qing Dynasty (清)
  • Mìng Lǐ Yuē Yán 命理約言, by Chén SùĀn 陈素庵
  • Mìng Lǐ Tàn Yuán 命理探源, by Yuán ShùShān 袁树珊

The Professional School has the Chinese name JiāngHú Pài (江湖派) which has a negative implication[citation needed]. It refers to people who take Life Reading and Fortune Telling as a profession and is usually regarded as a business. The problem is that these professionals may not know the theory very well. Also, they may just memorize some formulas and also collect a lot of statistical results from their practices which gives a superficial and possibly not as accurate a result as something more in-depth[citation needed].

Another famous school[citation needed] is the Máng Pài 盲派 or Blindman School. It was said that the teaching could only be taught to blind people, hence no written text is passed down. It was known for its high accuracy of the life reading


Please read the link for more information. 



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