What is Ba Zi?

Ba Zi means 8 characters in Chinese. Its derive from the translation of a person Date of Birth. This is like identifying which type of 'car' are you. Next is to "fine tune" the car (you) to its optimum performance. Imagine if your car timing is off, thus your performance and fuel consumption will be poor. Or when your alignment is out, then your car won't go straight. Therefore by knowing what is not performing at par, you can improve or even better, modify to further perform such as change air filter to K&N or using V-Power or platinum spark plug etc. In a nutshell, knowing your Ba Zi can help you perform at your peak.

Translation of Date of Birth to Ba Zi starts from your solar Date of Birth to lunar Date of Birth than Ba Zi. There is lot’s of confusion in understanding lunar date since its not our daily used date.

Chinese Lunar Date Confusion

Chinese Lunar Date is divided into 3 cycles. The upper cycle, middle cycle and lower cycle. Each cycle consist of 60 years also known as 60 甲子. We are currently at the lower cycle. (Lower cycle is from 1984 – 2043). The proper way of writing a Chinese Lunar Date is as follow :- 丙戌(Year) 3rd(Month) 4th (Day) (Time). Since 丙戌 repeat itself every 60 years it would be difficult for us to know which year the person is born, If one just state 丙戌 he could be 20 years old or 80 years old. Thus confusion would arise unless the person state upper cycle, middle cycle or lower cycle.

Confusion could also happen for the time of Birth in Lunar Date. The time is divided into 12 Chinese characters. If one were to just state 子 time which is from 11pm to 1am it is difficult to determine whether person is born today 12 midnight to 1am of yesterday 11pm to 12 mid night.

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