Since ancient times, many people have believed in fortune telling, because fortune tellers can accurately tell some information about the fortune teller, especially the family population and other things, with extremely accurate and amazing accuracy.

People recall the past in their memories and imagine the future in the unknown. People are always curious about the unknown. People always try their best to find some ways to deal with the future that cannot be grasped.

sought some spiritual sustenance, and speculated on his unknown fate based on some of his existing clues. The most famous of 's speculations was fortune telling.

Since ancient times, many people have believed in fortune telling. Because fortune teller can accurately tell some information about the fortune teller, especially the family population and other things, it is extremely accurate and impressive.

How does the fortune teller do it? Is fortune telling trustworthy?

Fortune telling

Fortune telling is a prediction of a person's destiny. The prediction can be traced back to the Fuxi period in my country. The prediction at that time was called divination.

In Fuxi's time, people knew nothing about the power of nature. People were confused and afraid of natural phenomena such as lightning, thunder, wind and rain.

In order to explain these natural phenomena and alleviate people's fears, Fuxi began to observe nature, suddenly discovered a thing with a dragon's head and a horse's body, and found a river map on the monster's body.

After seeing the River Diagram, Fuxi combined it with the nature he observed. He gained a new understanding of nature, corresponding the Bagua with wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and combined it with Yin and Yang. created the Yin-Yang Bagua Diagram.

After this, divination has been used in people's lives, especially when facing major events such as sacrifices, conquests and marriages, people often predict good or bad luck in advance.

For divination, people often use calcined tortoise shells, to divine good or bad luck by observing the patterns, this divination method was most prosperous in the Shang Dynasty , and many armor pieces were unearthed.

After King Wen of Zhou and others summarized the art of divination and compiled Zhouyi . Later Zou Yan, a doctor of Qi State , created the Five Elements theory, combining the Five Elements with "Book of Changes" The yin and yang theory in is related to form the yin and yang five elements theory.

In the pre-Qin Dynasty, people applied the culture of "the unity of nature and man" in the "Book of Changes" to predict the trajectory of life.During the Tang Dynasty, fortune-telling formed four pillars. These four pillars are "years". , month, day, hour."

After the Five Dynasties period, people combined the Four Pillars with the Five Elements in the "Book of Changes" to speculate on people's "confrontation, birth and restraint", and use this to speculate on people's fate and fortune.

The fortune telling industry has been developing, and fortune telling has become a common behavior. Until now, many people still believe in fortune tellers, so who are these fortune tellers?

Fortune teller

The earliest fortune teller can be said to be King Wen of Zhou, because he compiled the "Book of Changes", systematized the Yin and Yang Bagua and divination techniques, and was the founder of the divination industry.

Fortune telling uses the restraint of yin and yang and the five elements as a means to predict the good and bad fortunes of a person's life, so it is highly respected. In order to show the professionalism of fortune telling, fortune tellers use various information about people to speculate on people's destiny.

Fortune telling is developing rapidly, there are face reading, palm reading, name strokes, etc. This series of fortune telling is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In the upper class society of the Tang Dynasty, fortune-telling became a kind of elegant talk, so Li Zhongxu appeared. Focused on years and used four pillars to infer other people's fortunes.

He was good at fortune-telling. He could predict a person's fortune and lifespan based on the four pillars "without losing one or two". Later, he also wrote the book "Li Xuzhong's Book of Destiny". was called the ancestor of star destiny by later generations.

Yuan Tiangang was also a famous fortune teller in the Tang Dynasty. He was proficient in fortune telling. He accurately predicted the official fortunes of Du Yan and others. He also predicted that Wu Zetian would have the appearance of becoming the master of the world. Finally, he predicted own death.

Song Dynasty Xu Ziping also summed up the experience of his predecessors and created the eight-character fortune-telling method. is also a master-like existence in fortune-telling. There are also Liu Bowen , Yuan Shushan and others who are also famous fortune-telling masters, as well as the blind horoscope theory, fortune-telling secrets, etc.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many schools and portals of fortune-telling. Some magicians were not academically proficient and no longer specialized in studying the "Book of Changes". Instead, they wanted to take advantage of opportunities, so they wandered around the world, grandstanding, and mechanically applying terminology, thus was born. Many liars.

However, in the fortune telling industry, many people believe that blind folk fortune tellers are more accurate. Because blind people tell fortunes more accurately. Why is this?

In fact, the blind man has very few foundations for his livelihood. If he has the opportunity to tell others' fortunes, he will seize it, so he studies the "Book of Changes" assiduously in order to tell others' fortunes more accurately, so the blind man becomes a famous person in this industry. A convinced group of people.

Fortune tellers' "divine predictions"

Although the quality of fortune tellers varies, but in everyone's general impression, fortune tellers are still very powerful, because they can accurately tell a stranger's family information. This is why Woolen cloth?

Can they really predict people's fate?

In fact, their ability to tell these accurately can be regarded as their professional quality, because they need to have extraordinary insight and language skills.

Fortune tellers are people who travel around the world. They have been to many places. They will inspect the places they have visited in advance, collect information to understand local customs, and some gossip. So for the local people who come to tell fortunes , there will be a general understanding.

At the same time, the fortune teller's observation ability should not be underestimated. He will initially understand the personality, preferences and economic conditions of his customers from a person's dress.

Afterwards, through some language exchanges, we can understand the basic situation, and some worries of the customer, so as to accurately tell some basic situations of the customer.

The fortune teller will guide the customer during communication, thereby making the customer more trustworthy, and the customer will conduct self-verification, giving the customer a feeling that the fortune teller is very accurate.

Finally, after knowing your troubles, will say some inscrutable words. will make you feel confused, but it is very reasonable. You think these words are tailor-made for you, but in fact on, it may work on others too.

Even if there is only a little accuracy afterwards, customers will think of the fortune teller and think that the fortune teller is accurate. And there may be only a few answers to some things. Even if one or two people don't get it right, most customers will not go there. Trouble with the fortune teller.

If you are right, customers will spread the word of mouth and promote the fortune teller's magical powers. Of course, fortune telling is not all about deception.

Fortune-telling is still supported by the "Book of Changes". The Zhouyi summarizes the laws of the development of many things. Fortune-telling actually makes some sense if it deduces the possibility of the development of things based on changes in things.

Conclusion

There is a certain basis for fortune telling, but it cannot be fully believed. Because the result of the fortune teller's calculation is only a possibility, and there are too many variables in the future.

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is unknown, so all we can do is seize today.