What does divination mean?

Divination is to judge luck with tortoise shells, yarrow, copper coins or tooth cards.

Divination refers to the method of inferring good fortune and bad fortune in the future with tortoise shells, yarrow, copper coins, bamboo sticks, cards or astrology, analyzing problems and pointing out the maze for the parties. Primitive people lacked sufficient knowledge of the development of things, so they used natural signs to show their actions.

However, natural signs are not common and must be tested manually, so the method of divination came into being. Divination is to inquire what you want to know from the movement and change of external things to non-human spiritual bodies. It is different from prophecy, because there are usually ambiguous answers, so that the occupier can find a reasonable explanation.

If you want to do something with fortune telling, fortune telling has ritual or social characteristics, usually related to religion; Relatively speaking, fortune telling is mostly a daily activity for personal service. Divination is often questioned, but it is only a superstition. But advocates will say that there are many anecdotes to prove the effectiveness of divination.

Divination is a universal cultural phenomenon. Anthropologists have found that divination can be found in religion and culture from ancient times to our 2 1 century. However, the Christian Bible says that divination is forbidden by God, and Buddhism has a similar expression, but the wording is not as strict as the former; But in fact, divination and similar activities in the name of religion are common in society.