Why do people in the Eastern Han Dynasty like to study futurology?

Due to low productivity, the ancients lacked understanding of the objective situation and regularity of natural phenomena.

The next meteor shower will take the emperor a long time to ponder. Did what I did annoy God?

Therefore, ancient people often used divination to study natural phenomena and predict the future.

Especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, many senior intellectuals were addicted to the Book of Changes and specialized in divination.

Is this because the founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty relied on it? Liu Xiu should be the son of heaven, right? Family prophecy.

In addition, several major turning points in his life have also been successfully predicted.

Therefore, after Liu Xiu became emperor, he paid special attention to cultivating talents who knew divination and could predict.

Even called the map. Classic? Give its place to Confucianism? Classic? Same height.

What personnel appointment and dismissal, what major issues decision-making, depends on Chen Wei to decide.

At that time, it was better to know the Book of Changes than the Book of Changes, and many scholars were addicted to divination.

If you learn divination well, it is easy to be promoted, which is a major feature of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Fan Ying, a native of Nanyang, studied in Sanfu since childhood and was familiar with the Five Classics, especially the Book of Changes.

On one occasion, dark clouds suddenly rolled in the southwest of Nanyang, and it was terribly dark.

Fan ying said to the students, Chengdu must be on fire. This cloud is putting out the fire in Chengdu. ?

Students write down in their diaries and write to friends in Chengdu for verification.

Sure enough, someone in Chengdu confirmed that a fire broke out that day and was extinguished by rain.

It was a sensation at once, and everyone lamented Fan Ying's superb mastery of the Book of Changes.

After Fan Ying became famous, Han Andi recruited Fan Ying as an official many times, but Fan Ying did not agree.

After Emperor Shun ascended the throne, he invited Fan Ying out of the mountain. As a result, Fan Ying pretended not to go as usual.

This angered the little emperor and ordered the local leader of Nanyang to give me Fan Ying, too.

Under the enthusiastic care of local leaders, Fan Ying had to go to Beijing, but once he arrived in Beijing, he was "prone to illness".

So, Fan Yingzhen was carried into the golden palace and let the physician feel the pulse. It's really sick.

The emperor had no choice but to send him home, but he gave Gu Qianhu a cow and three bottles of wine every year.

When there was a disaster in the country, Emperor Shun of Han sent messengers to consult Fan Ying to see if there was a solution.

After Fan Ying, let's talk about Gu Li's father, Li He, who is also familiar with the Five Classics and is good at Heluo Fengxing.

In 88 AD, Han and Emperor ascended the throne. In order to understand the situation at the grass-roots level, he sent envoys to visit the counties anonymously to observe the people's feelings.

Two of them were sent to Yizhou, which is now Chengdu and Chongqing.

In order to understand social conditions and public opinion, the couple chose an ordinary inn instead of staying in a hotel at night.

As a result, I met Li He who also lived in the hotel.

Because it is summer, it is very hot at night, and everyone can't sleep. They are all chatting in the yard.

Li He looked at the starry sky for a while and suddenly asked the two messengers:

Aren't you two from the capital? When we set out from Beijing, did you hear that the court sent two special envoys to Yizhou? ?

Hearing this, both of them were startled, looked at each other in surprise, and then answered:? Never heard of it. ?

One of them asked again:? How did you know that the court sent two envoys? ?

Li He pointed to the stars and said to them, Look, there are two satellites in Yizhou, so I know. ?

What does this sentence mean?

Just as people divide the starry sky into many constellations now,

The ancients corresponded the starry sky area with the countries and states on the ground.

Li He found that two messengers in the sky had moved in the direction of Yizhou.

So it is judged that two messengers have arrived in Yizhou.

Li He shocked the two messengers with a small show. This is definitely a talent!

In 92 AD, one of the emissaries became the satrap of Hanzhong, found Li He as a clerk in Hanzhong, and immediately promoted him to be the director of civil affairs.

At this time, a great event happened. General Dou Xian is going to marry a daughter-in-law, and all counties and countries in the world are giving gifts to celebrate. Hanzhong county also intends to send people there.

However, Li stopped the satrap. His reason is: General Dou is autocratic and arrogant, and he will be unlucky soon. You should not associate with him. ?

But, what can I say? I don't know if you gave me a gift, but if not, I will remember.

Therefore, the satrap dare not give gifts! Determined to send someone to send a gift, Li He played a trick when he saw that he couldn't stop.

He and the satrap volunteered to give gifts, and the satrap agreed. However, Li He deliberately delayed time on the road and walked slowly.

As a result, Li Hegang went to Fufeng, Dou Xian committed suicide in the fief, and all his cronies were killed.

Anyone who has contacts with Dou Xian is exempted from pernicious influence, but it doesn't matter that Hanzhong Prefecture didn't give gifts.

Coincidentally, Zhang Zhou, the only Suizhou native named in the Han Dynasty, made the same choice.

At that time, Zhang Zhou worked in Nanyang County, and followed the prefect of Nanyang to inspect this place.

In the manor of the top scholar Hou, the satrap is going to visit Dou Xian who is thinking behind closed doors at home.

Zhang Zhou resolutely opposed it, and the satrap refused to listen. When he got into the carriage, he wanted to leave.

I was so angry that Zhang Zhou pulled out his sabre and cut off the reins that the satrap could not go on the road.

Later, Dou Xian was punished, and all the people who had contacts with him or her were dismissed from their posts, so that the Nanyang satrap was spared.

The satrap is very happy. He thought Zhang Zhou was a talented person, so he valued him and praised his filial piety. Later, he made Jiuqing.

But Dapeng thinks that this Zhang Zhou may be just loyal to the monarch and patriotic, and he doesn't know divination.

In A.D. 107, Yin Qin was a courtier of Zhang Zhou's generation, ranking first among courtiers and occupying a prominent position.

At that time, Empress Dowager Deng made her adopted son Liu Long emperor on the grounds that Ping Yuanjun Liu Sheng had an incurable disease, which caused dissatisfaction among ministers.

After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Long, ministers wanted to hold Liu Sheng as emperor, but Empress Dowager Deng took the lead in making him emperor.

This made Dai angry, so he planned to close the palace gate and make a palace coup.

Kill the Deng brothers and eunuchs Zheng Zhong and Cai Lun, and abolish the Empress Dowager,, and become emperors.

Unfortunately, after Zhang Zhou was still in series, he wanted to rebel and was fired. Suicide.

If Zhang Zhou really knows divination, he should understand that Emperor Liu Hu of Han 'an has been lucky for more than 30 years and won't make a move.

Although divination was an official thought in the Eastern Han Dynasty, many Confucian scholars rushed to learn divination in order to be an official.

However, some people are not interested in this and think that the theory of divination is the theory of deception. Cheat if you can, cheat if you can, and cheat if you can.

Zhang Heng, who invented the seismograph, wrote to the emperor and revealed that many divination materials were fake and shoddy products.

He said that the book Life Package in the Spring, Autumn and Yuan Dynasties tells the story of a bus class and Mo Zhai.

However, how to keep your mouth shut about Yizhou was only established in the Han Dynasty, but it did not exist in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Therefore, this book must have been forged by later generations to promote Fu Lu Rui Ying in the name of ancient sages and sages.

We should ban all divination books, such as divination books, and do not allow them to continue to defile Confucian classics!

Zhang Heng's wish certainly didn't come true, because it was the official thought and national ideology of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that the rulers discovered that everyone liked to use the knowledge of divination to create momentum before they rebelled.

Finally, I made up my mind to abolish the divination theory. But there are still sporadic rumors in the world, such as pushing back.

Refer to Purple Tongzhi Sword