"Yue Tan Fu" is an important chapter in the numerology classic "Qiong Tong Bao Jian". It is a programmatic document on the traditional four pillars and eight characters and destiny inference. It has always been regarded by numerologists as a must-read for beginners and a must-read for fortune-telling.
The book begins with the statement, "If you want to know the destiny of your life, you must know the two ways of inferring details." It points out that to predict destiny, you must examine the number of yin and yang in the destiny, the pattern of the five elements, and the principles of prosperity and decline. The whole article takes "Ge", "Qi" and "Yong" as the core, and systematically discusses the prosperous and declining changes and institutional relationships among the four pillars of stems and branches, wealth, officials, seals and food, thereby inferring a person's destiny in terms of wealth, official salary, life span, heirs and marriage.
Common assertions in the article such as "If the financial officer is prosperous, his wife will be noble and his son will be noble; if his official seal is weak, his family will be in decline", which shows the ancients' observation and summary of the laws of numerology. If the "evil gods" such as the Wounding Official, Seven Kills, Owl Seal, and Robbery are too strong in the destiny and are not coordinated by the Wealth Seal, many people will be in trouble and have setbacks; if the Wealth Seal supports the body and the pattern is appropriate, wealth can be expected.
"Yue Tan Fu" is not only a summary book of numerology judgments, but also the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients to use the principles of the five elements of heaven and earth to explore the rise and fall of life, reflecting the ancient profound thinking about fate and the way of heaven.
