The results of fortune telling for the same person, whether it is fortune telling with fingers, horoscopes, or palmistry, are basically the same. Therefore, the ancients often said that fortune telling with fingers and fingers is the same as fortune telling. included.
Strictly speaking, fortune-telling includes palmistry, facial fortune-telling, and horoscope fortune-telling.
Fortune-telling is a practice that uses personal personal information, such as the lines on the face and hands, birth horoscopes, name strokes, etc., together with magic numbers to predict or judge fate and seek guidance
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"Book of Rites·Jingjie": ""The Book of Changes" says: 'A gentleman should be cautious in his beginnings. A mistake as small as a hair's breadth can lead to a mistake of a thousand miles." The ancients believed that small changes would have a great impact on the future. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" records: There is a border town in Chu State called Beiliang. The girls there and the girls in Wu State's border towns were picking mulberry leaves on the border. When they were playing games, the girls from Wu State accidentally stepped on them. Hurt the humble girl. The people from Beiliang took the injured girl to blame the people of Wu. The Wu people were disrespectful, and the Beiliang people were very angry, so they killed the Wu people and left. The people of Wu State went to Beiliang to take revenge and killed the whole family of the Beiliang man. The Shouyi doctor in Beiliang was furious, so he sent troops to fight back against the Wu people, killing all the local Wu people, old and young. King Wu Yimei was very angry when he heard this. He sent troops to invade the border towns of Chu State and captured Yi before leaving. As a result, Wu and Chu had a large-scale conflict. From a foot injury while playing games, to a large-scale war between the two countries, to the Wu army's invasion of Yingdu, there was a series of evolutions in between. There was an invisible force of death that pushed the incident step by step into an irreversible situation. situation. Therefore, the ancients took sealing bad luck and prosperity very seriously, because small things can change the future destiny. Fortune telling can be traced back to the Xia and Shang Dynasties. This can be confirmed by the fact that most of the unearthed oracle bone inscriptions are inscriptions. At that time, before holding important events such as sacrifices, conquests, and weddings, the ancestors would first burn tortoise shells or use yarrow to perform devout divination on the matter, so as to judge good or bad luck. This was probably the germination of early fortune-telling. In the Zhou Dynasty, King Wen, Duke Zhou and others compiled a book based on the experience of their predecessors and named it "The Book of Changes", which raised the art of divination to a theoretical level. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius and his disciples added annotated articles called Shiyi to the Book of Changes. From then on, the Book of Changes was also called the Book of Changes. Almost at the same time, Zou Yan, a doctor of Qi State, founded the Five Elements Theory, which was combined with the Yin and Yang theory of the Book of Changes to form the Yin and Yang Five Elements Theory. In the Han Dynasty, it was carried forward by Dong Zhongshu, Jingfang and others, and gradually formed a divination and fortune-telling system with theories and methods. However, the divination and fortune-telling system at that time was still relatively crude, limited to fortune-telling, and the accuracy of fortune-telling was not very high.
According to legend, the history of finger-telling fortune-telling began with Guiguzi in the Warring States Period; another legend is that it originated from Li Xuzhong in the Tang Dynasty, but he changed his name to Guiguzi. People who want fortune telling will often turn to someone who is knowledgeable or respected in numerology to seek guidance and help them solve problems. In ancient China, this kind of person was also called "fortune teller".
The types of fortune-telling include:
Physiognomy
It was formerly known as a kind of alchemy that observes the appearance of people or places to predict good or bad luck. It is one of the five arts. The so-called "Xiang" generally includes five types: impression, name, person, house, and tomb. It is a kind of divination that observes the images existing in the phenomenal world. It is mainly based on the national culture and philosophy. An analysis of ancient Chinese fortune-telling from a different perspective.
Astrology
Also known as "astrology". A method of predicting things in the world by observing and interpreting the positions and changes of the sun, moon, and stars. It was popular in ancient countries. Astrology had a certain influence on the development of ancient astronomy. It is a system that uses the relative position and relative motion of celestial bodies (especially the positions of planets in the solar system) to explain or predict human destiny and behavior. It attempts to use a person's place of birth, time of birth and the position of celestial bodies to explain a person's character and destiny. Various cultures around the world have very different systems and theories of astrology. There are also different opinions among astrologers on the scope of use of astrology. Some astrologers believe that astrology can objectively predict events that can be verified in the future. Some astrologers believe that astrology's interpretation is only trending and cannot do anything. prophecy.
Bazi
A Chinese fortune-telling method. Superstitious people believe that the year, month, day, and time of a person's birth are matched by the heavenly stems and earthly branches. Each item is replaced by two characters, and there are eight characters in the four items. Based on these eight characters, a person can be deduced. fate. In the old custom, men and women must first exchange eight-character posts, also known as "geng posts", or simply "eight-character posts" when they get engaged.
Testing characters
It is also called "splitting characters" and "phase characters". A superstitious divination method. Open or combine the radicals of Chinese characters and add their meanings to predict good or bad luck.
Divination
In ancient times, tortoise shells, yarrow, etc. were used, and later generations used copper coins, tooth plaques, etc. to infer good and bad luck