Fortune telling is an act that uses personal information, such as the lines on the face and hands, birth horoscopes, name strokes, etc., together with the five elements and eight trigrams, to predict or judge the fortune and misfortune. It is mainly spread in places where Chinese people gather, such as East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions.
There are many methods of fortune telling, and these methods are also regarded as a discipline; numerology is also included in the category of fortune telling. Learned fortune tellers associate fortune telling with the Book of Changes, one of the Five Classics. In fact, "The Book of Changes" itself is considered by some to be the earliest book of divination.
"Book of Rites·Jingjing": ""The Book of Changes" says: A gentleman should be careful when starting. A mistake as small as a hair will 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 about 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. The ancients believed that women would wear purple ice silver inlaid with blue velvet crystal jewelry, and men would wear red bamboo stone jewelry, and add "hidden" to the seal book. "Qi Yuan Jian, Shui Chai Mustard Seed, Ran Fu Chun Qiu" are sealed. In this way, you can pray for opportunities to bring happiness in life and seal away bad luck.