Some friends may say, is there any need to ask? Fortune telling is of course superstitious, as some dictionaries explain it this way.
Do you understand what fortune telling is? If your understanding of fortune-telling is limited to the fact that fortune-telling is superstitious, your attitude itself is a kind of superstition and a blind belief in the statement "fortune-telling is superstitious."
Perhaps, some friends think that my above statement is a bit convoluted. So, let’s start with the concepts of fortune telling and superstition to see if fortune telling is superstitious?
1. What is superstition?
Superstition refers to people’s blind trust and worship of things. In other words, this kind of trust and worship may not necessarily have any basis; I may not understand or understand this kind of thing, but I hold an attitude of obsessive trust and conviction in it and blindly believe in it.
For example, because you have always heard that "fortune-telling is a feudal superstition", you will take it for granted that fortune-telling is a superstitious attitude, which is a kind of superstition.
2. What is fortune telling?
Fortune telling is a common name for horoscope prediction. It refers to a prediction method in which professionals analyze a person's life fortune based on their birth date and horoscope to infer their good or bad luck.
The birth date refers to the eight characters that represent the year, month, day and hour of a person's birth using the heavenly stems and earthly branches, arranged in sequence. Fortune telling can analyze a person's personality, appearance, physical health, family relationships, studies, relationships, marriage, work, career, wealth and other aspects of information based on a person's birth date.
3. How did superstition come about?
Compared with the huge unknown space and time, human cognition is limited. When encountering problems that cannot be explained by existing knowledge and experience, the ancients attributed them to heaven and gods; today's people believe that it depends on the progress and development of science.
In fact, this mentality can be regarded as superstition. The ancients were superstitious about heaven and gods, but today's people are superstitious about science.
It can also be said that human beings may have "superstitious" concepts about anything. Even the science pursued by modern people may still have "scientific superstition".
4. Why is there a saying that “fortune telling is superstitious”?
Fortune telling is very mysterious to ordinary people. Many people think this is unbelievable. How can a person's life destiny be calculated from these eight simple words?
Especially for modern people, it is not necessary to mention the professional terms in the horoscope prediction, such as wealth, official, seal, good luck and bad luck; just talking about the birth horoscope is enough to make people confused. After all, the child Chou Yin Mao, A, B, B and D are too far apart from Weibo and WeChat.
Moreover, in the eyes of many people, fortune telling cannot be verified by scientific methods and is unscientific and superstitious.
Of course, it is undeniable that some charlatans use mystique to defraud money, which provides some evidence for the statement that "fortune telling is superstitious".
5. The statement that "fortune-telling is a feudal superstition" is also a kind of superstition
However, it is correct to judge whether superstition can be verified by existing scientific means. ?
Teacher Zhang Shu will not elaborate further on this.
I believe that people who respect science all understand the evolution of humankind's understanding of the center of the universe: initially, people believed that the earth was the center of the universe, that is, geocentrism; later it evolved to believe that the sun is the center of the universe, that is, heliocentric theory; but now, people believe that the center of the universe is the center of the universe. Where exactly is the question? Who dares to say that this is the final answer?