Historical development of fortune telling

The origin of fortune-telling can be traced back to Xia and Shang Dynasties, which can be confirmed by the fact that most of the Oracle bones unearthed 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 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 relatively shallow, limited to the event level, and the accuracy of fortune-telling was not very high, which was more suitable than the divination and fortune-telling system.