Why do many rural people believe in birthdays and fortune telling?

First of all, I think this is a long-standing custom in many rural areas, and it still exists in many places now. I have known this since I was a child, because there are many fortune tellers at my grandmother's place, and they all say that they are very accurate, so my family will tell my fortune every year. My family still believes this, but I have always had great doubts about this matter. Why do so many people believe, why do so many people choose fortune telling?

But I think there must be a reason why this custom has lasted for so many years. Many people in this line of work are almost old people. I think people in the past were more willing to believe in fate and thought that many things were predestined. It's not unreasonable, but not everything can be known from fortune telling. Some people in rural areas don't believe in fortune telling, and some people believe in fortune tellers' words too much, which affects their normal life. It seems that they know their future in advance, and sometimes they are scared, so,

I have to say that many people still believe it, especially the older generation. I think the fundamental reason is that when China's economy was backward in the past, these people living in villages were constrained by economic and other reasons, which led to the rural areas becoming the hardest hit areas of feudal thought. Many rural people have worked hard all their lives and can't save any money. Therefore, some people will tell their children's fortune after giving birth and want to know whether their children will live well in the future, so they will choose to let them go.

But in fact, our own destiny is controlled by ourselves and the way we choose, so in my opinion, some things are really destined, just like you are destined to be your parents' children now, but how to live your own life depends on you.