Fortune teller Hsieh Pai-jung, a pupil of distinguished early Republican period astrologer Wei Ch'ien-li, thinks that in today's information age the Eight Cyclical Characters provide a useful point of reference for planning out one's life.
師承民初命學大師韋千里的解百榮認為，在現今的資訊時代裡，八字是一種很好的資訊，可以提供人生計畫的參考。