When and how did fortune tellers appear ~! ! ! ! !

The history of physiognomy can be traced back to the time when Zhou Wenwang played Zhouyi. There is a record of "meeting people" in pre-Qin classics. Since the Han dynasty, physiognomy has gradually become popular; During the Six Dynasties, Xiang Jing, a book devoted to physiognomy, appeared. The most popular reading of physiognomy is Ant Physiognomy. According to legend, Qian Ruoshui, a man in the Northern Song Dynasty, visited Huashan Mountain in Chen Tuan when he was a teenager, and the physiognomy book made by later generations is called physiognomy. At present, the popular Ma Zheng Fa (referred to as Ma Yi Xiang Fa for short) by Mr. Song Taizu (called Chen Tuan) completely refers to the 64 hexagrams in Zhouyi with 30 hexagrams in the upper classics and 34 hexagrams in the lower classics. In "Jin Ping Mei Hua Ci", the fortune teller who is good at counting posted a sign on his door, saying, "Copy the innate easy number, and each divination has three gold stars" to prove that he has his own reason.

Fortune-telling refers to a superstitious way of arranging a person's date of birth into eight characters according to heavenly stems and earthly branches, and then inferring a person's luck and fate according to the five elements to which the branches belong, commonly known as "batch of eight characters". In the old days, the "eight-character posts" exchanged by the two sides at the time of engagement had to be counted by the fortune teller first, and it was impossible to set them. According to legend, fortune-telling originated from Guiguzi in the Warring States Period, and fortune-tellers in all previous dynasties respected it as their ancestor. A fortune teller gives a person eight characters, that is, he infers his six relatives from a person's eight characters. The so-called six relatives are ancestors, parents, brothers, wives, children and grandchildren. Fortune-telling pays attention to infinite Tai Chi, which gives birth to two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip, which determines good or bad luck and personnel can be broken. Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, I was very particular about divination and had my own unique numerology theory. After the end of the Qing dynasty, it developed into a situation of spreading divination everywhere. Most fortune tellers sell dog meat by hanging sheep's heads, and they don't know much about it at all. They just shake their mouths, say irresponsible things and earn something to eat and wear.