What are the ancient fortune-telling schools?

The origin and evolution of fortune telling

Divination metaphysics has a long history in China, and its origin can be traced back to Fu. After Zhou Wenwang played gossip, fortune-telling began to develop gradually, and the specific development process was relatively long, with each generation contributing more or less. Fortune-telling is a method to predict the changing law of life trajectory by using the principle of "the unity of man and nature" in China's traditional Yi-ology culture. The year, month, day and hour of birth are arranged into four pillars and eight characters according to heavenly stems and earthly branches (called "four pillars and eight characters"), and then the fate of people is calculated by using the five elements of the branches and branches to judge their good or bad luck. According to the Voice of China News Night, fortune-telling may have started in the pre-Qin period. When the ancient Egyptians took notes with papyrus paper and the Babylonians made books with clay tablets, the ancient people in China cut bamboo into strips, thinned and polished it, baked it with fire, and wrote the most vivid historical facts on bamboo slips, which were handed down to future generations.

According to legend, it began in the Tang Dynasty with Li, a famous guiguzi. Tang Hanyu's "Epitaph of Li Jun, the Imperial Commissioner in the Temple": "Li Jun's name is empty, and the five elements are the deepest in the book. It is based on a person's date of birth, and it is better for the other person to die than for the king. It is not conducive to considering the improvement of life span, and it must be in its first year. " The formation of "four pillars of year, month, day and time" began in the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning, Nianzhu was the main body, and Nianzhu was the main life, supplemented by Yinna method. In the Tang Dynasty, Li changed it to year-based and used four pillars: year, month, day and hour. In the Five Dynasties, Xu Ziping changed the practice of taking daily work as the master of the sun, emphasizing the restraint of the five elements between the four pillars and the meeting of punishment and impulse. The ancients were obsessed with divination and fortune-telling because of the Book of Rites: "The Book of Changes said,' A gentleman should be cautious at the beginning, and if it is a tiny difference, it will be a thousand miles away. The ancients believed that small changes would have a great impact on the future.

Fortune-telling is also called "Zi Ping Ming Xue", "Zi Shuping", "Four Pillars Xue Ming" and "Birthday". Numerology, commonly known as fortune-telling, is a science that takes heavenly stems and earthly branches, the representative of a person's birth date, as the horoscope, takes the Book of Changes as the theoretical basis, and uses the restraint of Yin and Yang and the five elements as the means to predict a person's good or bad life. It is a theory of blending philosophy and natural science, and it is an important category of Zhouyi prediction.

Fortune tellers are Li, Li, Yuan Tiangang and Xu Juyi in the Five Dynasties, Sang Daohong in the Song Dynasty, Liu Bowen in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Shen Xiaozhan, Chen Su 'an, Wei Qianli, Yuan Shushan and Ren Tieqiao in the Qing Dynasty. There are also the blind eight-character theory, the secret of blind quick fortune telling, the secret of golden mouth and iron broken fortune telling, and so on.

In ancient times, fortune-telling usually used personal information, such as the lines of face and hands, the eight characters of birth, the strokes of names and other collocation skills to predict or judge good or bad luck and seek guidance, also known as guessing boxing fortune-telling. For thousands of years, through people's continuous development and improvement, a relatively complete theoretical system has been formed, which has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and lasted for a long time, showing strong vitality. Also take the life palace, fetus, Universiade, Universiade, and fleeting time, and cooperate with the five elements of old age and moon order to restrain blame.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, in the upper class, the atmosphere of talking about life as elegance increased to the Ming Dynasty. As Amin Song Lian said in On Ming Road, all modern scholars like to talk about and enjoy Taoism. This has reached the point where every scholar-bureaucrat can talk about it, and people talk about his life every day ..., and a large number of books on numerology are filled with Fu Zi, which gives people an entry-level way to become self-taught, so exchanging and discussing numerology often becomes another elegant pastime for scholar-bureaucrats in their spare time. In addition, from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, the numerology craze moved from the upper class to the folk, which made the people fascinated by numerology. People are familiar with life science, which has become a generation of fashion.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the upsurge of numerology in China has spread from the emperor to the people, and various schools and portals of numerology have also been flooded, which is bound to form a situation of mud and sand, and some magicians do not have a deep understanding of the classics of numerology, and their arguments are contrary to the essence of numerology; Some don't work hard on numerology at all, but use grandstanding. There is no head image of flowers and fists, dazzling and confusing. Some machines apply the numerology model, arranging the ever-changing numerology in a dead format and sitting in the right position (today's computer fortune telling and software fortune telling), so that they can't justify themselves; Some of the above situations are completely inaccurate.

What's more, some people claimed to be their own inventions by slightly changing the prediction mechanism, and the things pulled out of ancient paper piles also came to Fu Zi, which was really colorful and filled with smoke in the domestic Yi altar. Therefore, there is a crisis of faith lurking in this vigorous upsurge of looking at fate. In order to consolidate and improve their social status and further realize their own development, we must systematically sort out the numerology culture, which began in the early Ming Dynasty.

China culture is extensive and profound. As far as fortune telling is concerned, it is the crystallization of wisdom summed up by the ancients after years of practice. The theoretical system is complex and profound. Most people may never understand it, but now some "masters" in society not only think they have realized it, but also love to invent and create new fortune-telling academics. For thousands of years, the recognized numerology masters in later generations only explained the original theory and did not invent anything new. This shows that the classical theory has its rigorous rationality, and it is not easy to invent and create new theories. However, "invention" is as easy as eating lettuce for some "masters" now. In just over ten years, newly invented fortune-telling skills abound.