Bazi means 'eight characters'. A person's year, month, day and hour of birth are each written as a pair of characters from the traditional calendar, giving eight in all, and fortune-tellers read the chart for character, luck and compatibility. Matchmakers have long used it to decide whether two people suit each other. A Prophet uses a bazi reading in its 'past life' con.
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A Prophet: The Republican-Era Con Drama Where Every Trick Has a Trick Behind It
A guide to the 24-episode Republican-era swindler drama A Prophet, which ended its run in October: a hero who poses as a master to take revenge on a fraud ring, the folk-superstition cons at its core, Li Xian and Li Yitong's second pairing, its rename, and the overseas viewers who found it by word of mouth.