Such words ring only partially true, especially bearing in mind how often the ancients went astray in their observation of nature, as seen in their quaint notion that consuming cinnabar refined from metal and stone could make you live as eternally as those. Resting on the basis of Five Elements theories, no wonder the Eight Cyclical Characters divination method offers skeptics a field day.
這種說法聽起來似是似非，尤其想想古人的生態觀察一向有許多謬誤，像是以為吃了用金石提煉的丹藥，就能像金石一樣長生不老等，因此以這種「五行生剋」做為基礎理論的八字批命，也就難免有人信、有人疑了。