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What's the name of what you lost when you applied for a visa?

What is thrown in the temple when seeking a visa is called a divination cup, and the divination method used to throw possession to obtain divination images is called divination.

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(1) An ancient superstitious activity. Throw two mussels or two bamboo chips and watch them throw to predict good luck or bad luck. The wedge of Yuan Anonymous "Ghost in the Pot": "The child ran into Jia in Changshi, who was a diviner."

The fourth chapter of "Biography of Marriage in Awakening the World": "Chao serpent panicked, Yue Temple asked for a sign, and a hundred birds played divination in front of the palace and asked the blind to tell their fortune." Qu Youyuan's poem "You must make your enemies clear": "You don't have to tell fortune, and you don't have to ask God to predict."

(2) still joking, joking. The ninth time in A Dream of Red Mansions: "I told jokes to amuse menstruation, but menstruation used me as a divination."

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The origin and way of divination;

It is also a begging skill for fortune tellers to hang cups on their shoulders and throw cups at the door of rural houses with bamboo poles with iron hooks.

This old sociological technique is also a book of changes with corresponding categories. But some fortune tellers still draw a gourd, learn a little divination and go out to beg, and get away with it. You must have a set of tools for playing hexagrams. The divination cup should split the root saw of Phyllostachys pubescens and divide it into 6 pieces like a fish in a small field. A small hole should be drilled at the top of each piece, and the two pieces should be strung together with fine twine.

The front and back are called the front and back of Yin and Yang. A thin bamboo pole is about 2 meters long, and the top of the bamboo pole is covered with a small iron hook. The cup falls to the ground, after reading the words of the hexagrams, hook two hexagrams into a string of three strings with a bamboo pole, and the hexagrams are completed.

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