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Commonly known as fortune telling, it refers to all kinds of tricks to calculate personal destiny. The ancient Han people were very good at keeping their promises.

"Biography of Sima Ji in Historical Records" says: fortune tellers talk a lot to gain human feelings, while empty people talk a lot to express their aspirations. "History of Han Dynasty, Art and Literature" also said: On the theory of the stars' destiny, there were books such as Taiyi Xing Zi in the Han Dynasty to infer numbers, but what they did was to talk about bad luck. Judging from the available data, people in the Han Dynasty and the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties mainly used the divination and birth stars in the Book of Changes to infer their life fortune, and the method was relatively simple. About the late Six Dynasties, the five-star astrology based on astrology and calendar was formed. This technology gave birth to Yao's Bing Ding, and Zhang, who still lived in the Tang Dynasty, was the first teacher, so it was also called Shu. When it comes to five stars, it doesn't just mean Venus; Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn refer to the whole astronomical system related to astrology. Mainly according to the birth control theory of the sun, the moon and the stars, different stars are endowed with various meanings of evil spirits, and people's fate is calculated according to the position of the stars at birth. This technique was quite popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it has been circulated among the Han people so far. In the later period of the Six Dynasties, while the five-star life-pushing technique was popular, another time-pushing technique based on China's traditional theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements was developed. It was originally called Sanshengshu. It mainly judges people's wealth according to the fact that people born in different times are endowed with yin and yang. Through the efforts of Li and Song Dynasties in Tang Dynasty, the "Three Fates" technique developed into an academic number that combines four pillars of a person's date of birth into eight characters to calculate good or bad luck, which was called "Zi Ping" by the world.

Since then, Five-Star Art and Ziping Art have become two major schools of star art in China ... Because it is convenient and easy to understand, Ziping Art has been more popular than the former since it came into being. Later, with the prosperity and spread of astrology, magicians also combined Yi-ology, Heluo-ology, Buddhism and Taoism with Five Elements and Zi-ping to create various new divination techniques. For example, the innate number of emperors, the number of ranges, the number of achievements, the number of fights, the eight diagrams to push people's lives, the escape of the nine palaces and eight diagrams, the merits and demerits, the tigers on the ground, and the tongs of the two sessions are all difficult to describe. But its influence is not as good as Ziping based on eight characters. At present, the majority of folk warlocks in the Han nationality are Zi Ping.