Are Traditional and Simplified Results the Same?

In Chinese-metaphysics practice, the four pillars are not derived from the language in which a page is displayed. They are produced from the Gregorian birth data by fixed rules. This entry explains why traditional and simplified Chinese pages do not produce different charts when the same birth data are entered, and where the apparent differences actually come from.

计算与页面语言无关

The four pillars are calculated from the year, month, day, and hour of birth expressed in the Gregorian calendar. The engine that performs this calculation does not depend on whether the interface uses traditional Chinese characters or simplified Chinese characters. Both scripts encode the same words for the same technical terms, and the calculation rules are the same.

When the same Gregorian birth date and time are submitted, the traditional page and the simplified page should return the same set of eight characters. The eight characters are the four heavenly stems and four earthly branches assigned to the year, month, day, and hour. A change in font or script does not alter the underlying sexagenary cycle, the month boundaries, or the hour boundaries used by the system.

The same applies to the derived labels around the chart. Terms such as the ten gods and the hidden stems are unchanged in meaning between the two scripts. 十神 in simplified form and 十神 in traditional form are the same term written two ways. 藏干 and 藏干 refer to the same hidden-stem concept. The script difference is orthographic, not conceptual.

会不一样的是日常词汇的写法

What differs between the traditional and simplified versions is not the technical chart, but ordinary vocabulary. A common example is the word used for the Gregorian calendar. In Taiwan, the Gregorian calendar is commonly called 國曆. In mainland China, the same calendar is commonly called 公历. These are not two calendars and not two methods of calculation. They are two regional names for the same calendar.

This difference is not a matter of character conversion alone. If a simplified page mechanically converts 公历 to 公曆, the result is still the term used in mainland usage, not the term 國曆 used in Taiwan. The difference arises because the two regions have different everyday vocabulary for the same thing.

The same pattern can appear in other ordinary words around the page. The technical vocabulary of stems, branches, ten gods, and hidden stems remains stable, because those words have a fixed traditional and simplified form. But words such as calendar, lunar calendar, time zone, and birth place may differ by region rather than by script.

國曆和公历指的是同一件事

When a user sees 國曆農曆對照 on a traditional page and 公历农历对照 on a simplified page, the two labels refer to the same kind of reference table. Both compare the Gregorian calendar with the lunar calendar. The content of the comparison is the same, but the search term used to find it is different.

A user searching for 國曆 will tend to reach Taiwanese or traditional-language materials. A user searching for 公历 will tend to reach mainland or simplified-language materials. The underlying data do not change because of the search term. The difference is in how the page is named and how the user asks for it.

For the purpose of four-pillar calculation, the distinction matters only when entering the date. The user needs to know whether the tool expects the date as a Gregorian date or as a lunar date. Whether the label says 國曆 or 公历, the intended input is the same Gregorian calendar date. If the user treats the two labels as different calendars, the mistake lies in interpretation, not in the engine.

同一个工具的两个语言版本怎么比

On this site, the traditional page and the simplified page run the same engine. The chart output is the same for the same input. The differences that appear are in wording and in the choice of some regional terms, not in the calculated stems and branches.

When comparing the two language versions, the practical method is to place the eight characters side by side and check each character in order. The year pillar, month pillar, day pillar, and hour pillar should match one for one. The ten-god labels and hidden-stem labels should also match, allowing for the expected script conversion of the same characters.

The surrounding paragraphs do not need to be compared sentence by sentence. Because the two versions may use different regional vocabulary or slightly different phrasing, a word-for-word comparison of prose can produce apparent differences that have no bearing on the chart. The relevant comparison is the sequence of eight characters and the technical annotations attached to them.

If the eight characters match, the language version has not changed the result. If a prose paragraph differs, that does not by itself indicate a calculation problem. The difference may simply be the use of 國曆 instead of 公历, or a different way of explaining the same rule.

换语言看盘时要固定的两项

When switching between the traditional and simplified pages to read a chart, two things should be kept fixed. The first is that the submitted data are the same Gregorian birth data. The second is that the user is using the same tool and the same version of that tool.

If the eight characters differ between the two language versions, the cause is not the language. In most cases, the date has been treated as a different calendar or a different time zone. For example, a date entered as a lunar date on one page and as a Gregorian date on another will produce different pillars. A time entered without a consistent time zone can also shift the day pillar or the hour pillar.

The fixed items are therefore not about script. They are about the input data and the tool version. The user should confirm that both pages receive the same Gregorian year, month, day, and hour, and that the time zone is the same. The user should also confirm that both pages belong to the same version of the same site, because different tools may use different solar-term boundaries or different day-start rules.

Once those two items are fixed, switching between traditional and simplified Chinese should not change the eight characters. The remaining differences are expected to be ordinary wording, such as 國曆 and 公历, and those differences do not affect the four-pillar chart.