Method Of Working Out Of Year Pillar Arithmatically

Assigning of numbers to 60 Jia Zi

1	Jia Zi	11	Jia Xu	21	Jia Shen
2	Yi Chou	12	Yi Hai	22	Yi You
3	Bing Yin	13	Bing Zi	23	Bing Xu
4	Ding Mao	14	Ding Chou	24	Ding Hai
5	Wu Chen	15	Wu Yin	25	Wu Zi
6	Ji Si	16	Ji Mao	26	Ji Chou
7	Geng Wu	17	Geng Chen	27	Geng Yin
8	Xin Wei	18	Xin Si	28	Xin Mao
9	Ren Shen	19	Ren Wu	29	Ren Chen
10	Gui You	20	Gui Wei	30	Gui Si

31	Jia Wu	41	Jia Chen	51	Jia Yin
32	Yi Wei	42	Yi Si	52	Yi Mao
33	Bing Shen	43	Bing Wu	53	Bing Chen
34	Ding You	44	Ding Wei	54	Ding Si
35	Wu Xu	45	Wu Shen	55	Wu Wu
36	Ji Hai	46	Ji You	56	Ji Wei
37	Geng Zi	47	Geng Xu	57	Geng Shen
38	Xin Chou	48	Xin Hai	58	Xin You
39	Ren Yin	49	Ren Zi	59	Ren Yu
40	Gui Mao	50	Gui Chou	60	Gui Hai

First of all, imagine that you put up a row of 60 chairs and you number them starting from 1 to number 60.

The First Chair has a number of 1 on it. The third chair has a number of 3 on it. The tenth chair has a number of 10 on it. And the last chair has a number of 60 on it.

Now imagine you make another 60 new chairs with different colour and you also number them starting from 1 to number 60. And you arrange this 60 new chair following the first 60 new chairs.

The sixty first chair will have a Number of 1 on it. The seventieth chair will have a number 10 on it.

The chair number 90 will have a number of 30 on it. The number 120 will have a number of 60 on it.

Now using the table above, you have to prepare 60 new sticker (2 sets) with Jia Zi, Yi Chou until Gui Hai on each sticker.

Now you paste Jia Zi sticker on the chairs with number 1 and number 61. Yi Chou stickers on the chair number 2 and 62 until each chair with a number and a sticker with Jia Zi pillars.

Familiarize number with the 60 Jia Zi.

We know that there are only 10 stems and they are very to remember, that is Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui, that is following the order of wood grow fire, fire grow earth, earth grow metal and metal grow water.

From the table above, you can see 1, 11, 21, 31, 41 and 51 have a Jia stem.
From the table above, you can see 2, 12, 22, 32, 42 and 52 have a Yi stem.

To simplify, number ending with 1 is Jia,
number ending with 2 is Yi
number ending with 3 is Bing
number ending with 4 is Ding
number ending with 5 is Wu
number ending with 6 is Ji
number ending with 7 is Geng
number ending with 8 is Xin
number ending with 9 is Ren
number ending with 0 is Gui.

Now, just do some testing, chair with number 25 has a day stem of Wu.
Chair with number of 56 has a day stem of Ji earth.

Once you have familiarize yourself to determine the day stem by any of this 60 number.

We will proceed to find the earthly branch of this 60 numbers.

Method To Determine The Earthly Branch Of A Year Pillar

1 Zi
2 Chou
3 Yin
4 Mao
5 Chen
6 Si
7 Wu
8 Wei
9 Shen
10 You
11 Xu
12 Hai

In order for you to work out the earthly branch of any year without looking at the calendar, you have to remember the number assign to each number in this table.
1 is for Zi, 2 is for Chou in sequence until 12 if for Hai.

Out of the 60 number (1 to 60), let says you take 49, you just have to remove any multiple of 12 and the balance is 1 (after taking off 4 x 12), 1 is Zi, so 49 is Zi.

Another number, let says 35, after minus 2 x 12=24, you have 11, 11 means Xu.
For stem 35, 5 means Wu.

So 35 is Wu Xu.

So you have to make yourself very confidence by changing any number from 1 to 60 to get the stem and branch frequently.

NEXT WE LOOK AT YEAR OF JIA ZI, WHICH IS 1984 WITH AN ASSIGN NUMBER OF 1.

THAT MEANS WE WILL GET THE ASSIGN NUMBER THAT MATCH WITH THE YEAR PILLAR IN THE TABLE ABOVE BY DEDUCTING 1983.

EXAMPLE 1 - YEAR OF 1999 (MEANING 4 FEB 1999 TO 4 FEB 2000)

WE HAVE 1999 - 1983 = 16 (YEAR PILLAR IS JI MAO)

EXAMPLE 2 - YEAR OF 2005 (MEANING 4 FEB 2005 TO 4 FEB 2006)

WE HAVE 2005 - 1983 = 22 (YEAR PILLAR IS YI YOU)

EXAMPLE 3 - YEAR OF 1960 (MEANING 4 FEB 1960 TO 4 FEB 1961)

WE HAVE 1960 + 60 - 1983 = 37 (YEAR PILLAR OF GENG ZI)

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