According to the Voice of China News Night, fortune-telling may have started in the pre-Qin period. When the ancient Egyptians took notes with papyrus paper and the Babylonians made books with clay tablets, the ancient people in China cut bamboo into strips, thinned and polished it, baked it with fire, and wrote the most vivid historical facts on bamboo slips, which were handed down to future generations.
Finger-fan fortune-telling is a kind of behavior that uses personal information, such as the lines of face and hands, the eight characters of birth, the strokes of names, etc., to predict or judge good or bad luck and seek guidance.
Refers to mystery. Pointing at the maze to avoid confusion. Song Ouyang Xiu met again: "Alas, how dare I recognize this son? On poetry, Laizi refers to mystery first. Jin Dong explained Yuan's "The West Chamber" Volume 8: "I really don't understand this unless my teacher is fascinated." Yuan Qinglin's Postscript in Ming Dynasty: "Specially compiled to confuse the ear." "Cold and Miscellaneous Knowledge" Zhu Liting's "Lu Qing Yi Mei Shi" said: "There is a word, which is especially fascinated by later generations."
Fortune telling is a common name among the people. The academic title is prediction, and the academic study of fortune telling is called Yi Xue, also called Shu Shu. The core of this theory is the branches of Yin-Yang and Five Elements and the Eight Diagrams Yijing, and the theoretical system is complex and profound. Fortune-telling in a narrow sense is a prediction of the date of birth, while fortune-telling in a broad sense includes reading numbers, palm reading, eight diagrams and six hexagrams, Taoism, geography, geomancy and so on. Ancient divination and divination belong to fortune telling.