黄历 · Almanac by year

What these words mean

• Pillar: a pair of symbols: a stem written on top and a branch below it. Your year pillar is the pair for your year of birth, and your day pillar the pair for your day of birth. Four pillars make eight symbols, which is what BaZi means: "eight characters".
• Clashing sign: each day's branch clashes with one animal sign, the one directly opposite it. The almanac names that sign for every day.