In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, both Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi like to watch celestial phenomena at night. When Sima Laoer saw the stars falling in the autumn wind, he knew that Kongming was dead. According to the genealogy of Ma surname in Huaining, in the second year of Northern China (96 1), Ma Yize was called to study astronomy in China.
Ma Yize and his son introduced the calculation method of the position of the zodiac and the date when the sun entered the palace into China astronomy. His third son, Ma Yi, served in the army, and used astrology in the army, which was associated with the twelve qi in the twenty-four solar terms, as the basis for Liu Ren's divination. The zodiac signs, namely Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn and Aquarius, were used in the general compendium of martial arts classics in the Northern Song Dynasty (104 1048).
Su Shi, an ancient poet in China, is a veritable astrologer. When he found that he and his idol Han Yu were both Capricorn, he attributed their ill-fated reasons to the constellation: "Retreat the poem cloud: when I was born, the moon fought against the moon." I know that grinding scorpions is my palace and my life after retirement. I have been slandered many times in my life, and I am getting sick! "
To some extent, I believe that constellations reflect different outlook on life, values and world outlook systems. If the constellation difference is too big, it will become a century-old problem like "tofu brain is sweet or salty", and even cause estrangement between relatives and friends, and husband and wife turn against each other.
Sociological interpretation of "constellation fever"
Barnum effect
Fowler effect, also known as astrology effect, is a psychological phenomenon proved by psychologist bertram Fowler in 1948. After he finished a set of personality tests for his students, he distributed them and told them that the report was "unique". In fact, the content of each character analysis report is the same. He asked the students to rate the accuracy of the report, with a score ranging from 0 to 5, and the final average score was 4.26.
The full text of the analysis report is as follows:
"You want others to like you and admire you. You tend to be strict with yourself. You have a lot of untapped potential. Although there are some defects in your character, you can try to overcome them as a whole. You have encountered difficulties and problems when you get along with the opposite sex. To outsiders, you seem to be self-disciplined and steady, but in fact you lack security inside. Sometimes you have serious doubts about your decision. You prefer freedom and change. When you are restricted and bound, you will feel unhappy. You are proud of your independent thinking ability. Without satisfactory evidence, you will not easily accept other people's opinions. You think it unwise to reveal secrets to others too frankly. Sometimes you are outgoing, kind and easy to get along with, but sometimes you are introverted, reserved and full of vigilance. Some of your wishes are unrealistic. The main goal of your life is to pursue stability. "
Oh, my old friend! Do you think it's you? I think most friends in front of the mobile phone screen feel that these descriptions are very similar to themselves, and feel that they must cry, right? But this is not because the writing is clever, but because the report is general and vague, and most of the descriptions are suitable for most normal people. Corresponding to the "falsifiability" mentioned in the last article, it is precisely because the vague description covers a wide range and has an indestructible "No falsifiability" that people can't find the opposite evidence to refute and sit in the right place. The explanation of this experiment is that it is easy for people to believe that a general, vague and empty personality description is in line with their real situation.
"All scientific propositions must have falsifiability, and the theory that can't be false can't be a scientific theory", which is a concept put forward by the famous scientific philosopher karl popper in his book Conjecture and Refutation. It is precisely because some predictions and descriptions produced by Constellation are too broad and vague, so any results in reality can be regarded as consistent with such predictions. The author casually searched Virgo's fortune this year: "Academically, Virgo, who has been working hard, will have no pressure, but if you haven't made a plan, it will be more difficult in the first half of the year." Virgo friends can't help nodding at first sight, but it's not hard to see that this sentence actually applies to any student with normal intelligence and academic performance. It can't be overthrown, and it can't be falsified, so constellation prediction has a magical power that people believe.