Emperor: How long can I live? The Taoist priest held out three fingers, and the emperor was overjoyed: It seems that I can still live 10 years.

Zuo Zhuan recorded such a story: During the Spring and Autumn Period, the King of Chu planned to make Shangchen a prince. As a result, Yin Zi said that Shang Chen was a ferocious and cruel man, and he couldn't stand it. King Chu Cheng didn't listen, and as a result, Shang Chen really killed his father fiercely.

Later, in the Warring States period, it was very popular to look at a person's character and even fate through his face. For example, there are many similar records in Historical Records: Tang Ju visited Li Dui's fortune teller and said that he would "hold the country in 100 days". Later, Li Dui really took the position of fortune teller in Zhao Guoquan within one hundred days, and plotted to force King Wuling of Zhao to death.

Tang Ju accurately predicted the fate of others through physiognomy many times during the Warring States Period, so later generations used the word "Tang Ju" to refer to people who were good at physiognomy. We often say that it is scientific to look at a person's joys and sorrows through his face, but if you look at his face, you can see a person's future destiny, even the geometry of his life span, which always feels a bit "feudal superstition".

But in ancient times, people's cognition was limited, and many things were attributed to the arrangement of heaven. They believe that people's fate is determined by mysterious external forces, so fortune tellers' predictions are very popular.

Among them, calculating people's fate is relatively simple, because it can be reasonably speculated by the information obtained. For example, if Cao Cao becomes the prime minister, it can be predicted that his descendants will become emperors, because Cao Zhi had already raised the Liujiajiang Mountain at that time, and it is very likely that the next generation of Han Dynasty will become the emperor. Secondly, you can rely on "Meng". For example, when Liu Bang didn't make a fortune, some people said that he was "expensive". "expensive" itself is an ambiguous word, and any explanation makes sense.

The most difficult thing about physiognomy is to calculate people's life span, because it is a quantitative thing, which is not accurate at all. But in ancient times, there were still strange people who could predict their life span, even to the sky, but this person was not a professional fortune teller, and his main business was the emperor. who is it? Levin

Gao Yang was the first emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the seventh year of Wuding in the Northern Wei Dynasty (549), Gao Cheng, a powerful minister, intended to be the emperor on behalf of Wei after completing all preparations for meditation. As a result, he was accidentally assassinated by a chef at home on the eve of his accession to the throne. It was in this situation that his younger brother Gao Yang succeeded to the throne and became the founding king of the new dynasty.

According to the convention, successive kings of new countries in past dynasties will ask ministers to offer several auspicious titles to choose from, and different titles have different meanings. For example, when Zhu Youjian ascended the throne in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Rites gave him four titles: Gansheng, Xingfu, Jiaxian and Chongzhen, while Zhu Youjian changed the word "Zhen" to "Zhen" and named it Chongzhen, meaning that soldiers expected good luck. When Gao Yang ascended the throne, the minister also came up with a title called "Tianbao", which means God bless and is also very auspicious. But Gao Yang saw fate in it. He said, isn't it "only ten for one adult" to demolish natural forests for protection? This means that I will die after ten years in power. The minister was stunned on the spot, but Gao Yang said happily: Ten years is not bad.

The more sacred is yet to come. After Gao Yang succeeded to the throne, he took Li Xinyu Zu E to visit Mount Tai and met a familiar old man. Gao Yang asked him: How long do you think I can be the son of heaven? Without thinking, the old man stretched out three fingers and said, Thirty. As a result, Gao Yang said to the Queen, I really only have ten years to live.

The queen asked inexplicably, didn't Lao Dao say he was thirty? Gao Yang replied: When he said thirty, he meant three tens, that is, October 10th of ten years. Sure enough, Gao Yang, who was only 34 years old, died of sudden illness on1October 10 in the tenth year of natural forest protection.