Yuan Hai Zi Ping

Yuan Hai Zi Ping (simplified Chinese: 渊海子平; traditional Chinese: 淵海子平; pinyin: Yuān Hǎi Zǐ Píng) is the first comprehensive and systematic book on the theory of Four Pillars of Destiny. The book was compiled by Xu Dasheng (徐大升, aka zh:Xu Ziping 徐子平, hence the book's name) of the Song Dynasty of China. It is a recording of various Zi Ping's fortune-telling methods. The method involves manipulation of the Four Pillars, each consisting of the two Chinese characters for the date and time of a person's birth (alternative name "eight characters" 八字 Ba Zi).

The names of the book's chapters are:

1. Basics
2. Ten Gods
3. Symbolic stars
4. Six Types of Family Members
5. Fortunes of Females
6. Fortune-telling Verses

See also

• Qi Men Dun Jia
• Da Liu Ren
• Tai Yi Shen Shu
• Tie Ban Shen Shu
• Feng Shui
• I Ching
• Chinese astrology
• Chinese astronomy
• Chinese Classical Texts
• Monadology - the metaphysical basis for synchronicity provided in 1714 by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, another student of the I Ching.
• Flying Star Feng Shui

References

• "Yuan hai zi ping" by Xu Zi Ping, Xi An: Shan Xi Lu You Chu Ban She, 2007. ISBN 7-5418-1583-7
• "Introduction to Zi Ping" by Jack Sweeney, Wen Bo Chu Ban She, 2009.

External links

• Chinese classic books on fortune telling
• Four Pillars of Destiny
• [www.phoenixanddragonfengshui.com/index.asp] Qi Men Dun Jia website of Jack Sweeney