Yesterday, a colleague said that finger-fan fortune-telling began in the Northern Song Dynasty, and another said that it began in the Qing Dynasty. Which one is right?

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.

The history of fortune-telling began with Guiguzi in the Warring States Period. Another legend is that it originated from Li in the Tang Dynasty, but was later renamed Guiguzi. People who want to tell fortune often turn to some people who have studied numerology or are respected to seek guidance and solve problems for themselves. In ancient China, such figures were also called "fortune tellers". 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.