Zigong refers to the fortune telling of fans _ Zigong Fortune Telling Street

What is the historical development of fan fortune telling?

1, origin

The history of fortune-telling began with Guiguzi in the Warring States Period [4]; 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 [5], fortune-telling began in the pre-Qin period. When the ancient Egyptians used papyrus to take notes and the Babylonians used clay tablets to make books, the ancients in China cut bamboo into sticks, thinned them, polished them and baked them with fire, and wrote the most vivid historical facts on bamboo slips, which were handed down to future generations.

2. Development

Interpretation of the Book of Rites [3]: The Book of Changes says:' A gentleman should be cautious at the beginning. If it is one in a million, it will be a thousand miles away. The ancients believed that small changes would have a great impact on the future. According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, there was a border town in Chu called Beiliang. At that time, girls in the border town of Wu were picking mulberry leaves on the border. While playing games, Miss Wu accidentally stepped on Miss Beiliang. The low beam people took the injured girl to blame the Wu people. The people of Wu were rude, and the people of Beiliang were very angry, so they killed Wu and left. Wu people went to Beiliang for revenge and killed the whole family of Beiliang people. The doctor in Beiliang Shoucheng was furious and sent troops to fight back against the Wu people, killing all the local Wu people, old and young. Wu Wang Yi was very angry after hearing this. He invaded Chu border town, captured Iraq and left. As a result, there has been a large-scale conflict between Wu Chu. From playing games and hurting my feet, to the outbreak of a large-scale war between the two countries, and then to Wu Jun's invasion of Du Ying, there is an invisible death force in a series of evolution, which irretrievably pushes the incident to an uncontrollable situation step by step. Therefore, the ancients attached great importance to the seal of bad luck, because small things can change the fate of the future. Finger-fan fortune-telling can be traced back to Xia and Shang Dynasties, and it can be confirmed that most of the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions are Oracle Bone Inscriptions. At that time, before the ancestors held major activities such as sacrifice, conquest, marriage, etc., they all burned tortoise shells or made a trip to the grass, and made pious divination on the matter to judge good or bad luck. This was probably the bud of early fortune telling. In the Zhou Dynasty, Duke Zhou and others compiled a book called Zhouyi on the basis of predecessors' experience, and the art of divination rose to the theoretical level. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius and his disciples added an annotated article called Ten Wings to the Book of Changes, and from then on, the Book of Changes was also called the Book of Changes. Almost at the same time, Zou Yan, a doctor of the State of Qi, founded the theory of five elements, which was combined with the theory of yin and yang in the Book of Changes and became the theory of yin and yang and five elements. In the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, Jing Fang and others carried forward and gradually formed a set of theories and methods of divination. However, the divination and fortune-telling system at that time was still superficial, limited to the accounting level, and the accuracy of fortune-telling was not very high.