Today (1st October 2009) marks the commencement of the month Oct 2009. It is also the Children Day. This common date is derived from the western calendar （阳历）, which is also known as the Gregorian calendar.
Another widely used system is the Yin calendar otherwise referred to as the lunar calendar (农历). From the perspective of lunar calendar, today is 13th of the eighth lunar month in 2009.
Do you know that besides these calendars, there is also another system of organizing time, which is the ‘solar calendar’（节气历）?
The solar calendar is adopted to work out and arrange the birth particulars into a set of Eight Characters (as showed below):-
Hr Day Mth Yr
壬 己 癸 己 Heavenly Stems
申 卯 酉 丑 Earthly Branches
Solar calendar records time based on the ‘heavenly stems’ and ‘earthly branches’. Year, month, day & hour are each assigned a ‘heavenly stem’ and an ‘earthly branch’.
Four Pillars （四柱）related to the ‘year pillar （年柱）’, the ‘month pillar （月柱）’, the ‘day pillar （日柱）’ and the ‘hour pillar （时柱）’. Every pillar is formed from a heavenly stems and earthly branches, which give forth to the Eight Characters （八字）.
IN SHORT, Bazi (also known as Eight Characters, Four Pillars of Destiny) refers to a system of recording the date and hour based on Solar Calendar. It is used to investigate and predict your destiny, personality, health status, academic performance, love life and marriage of an individual.
Have you ever wonder how your bazi look like?
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