The author is Kuo Chengchung (Cheng Chung Kuo) , and he was born in Taiwan in 1961. In 1976, he was admitted to the provincial Hsinchu High School. He was one of the junior brothers in the school of Dr. Lee Yuantseh who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Since 1979, he has practiced numerology, geomancy, and spells. In 1981, he was converted into E-Kuan-Tao (religion name). In the same year his article " The First Show of the Natural Excellent Structures of the Ba Zi numerology 天然貴局初覽 ( 八字命理 ) " was published in the 15th issue of Tianran Magazine 天然雜誌 . And he was enrolled in the magazine's auther list of internationally renowned scholar camp which includes the following: Wei Juxian 衛聚賢 , Zhang Qiyun 張其昀 , Zhao Yabo 趙雅博 , Huang Dashou 黃大受 and so on. In 1984, he founded the theological Training Theory【磨煉說】. In 1985, all his books An Outline of E-Kuan-Tao 一貫道大綱 , The Good News of E-Kuan-Tao 一貫道佳音 , and Ba Zi Qian Qiu 八字千秋 were published.