Xu Ziping徐子平
Reading the eight characters is still called Zi Ping after him.
- Era
- Song · Dates unknown
- Known for
- Notes on Luo Lu Zi
子平事蹟無可考，獨命學為世所宗，今稱推八字者為子平，蓋因其名。
Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao
What it is
The Siku catalogue says nothing certain is known of his life, only that the method took his name and that he annotated the Luo Lu Zi.
Stories make him a hermit on Mount Hua. The catalogue says it does not know where they come from.
On this site
Our Four Pillars tool follows this method.
Sources Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao; Han Yu; Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu.