The Jianghu deception of Zhuge Shenshu

There are 384 hexagrams in Zhuge, and the number of hexagrams is 384 according to strokes. Oracle divination has different syntactic lengths and profound meanings, which greatly inspires the thinking of fortune tellers, especially those who are in a confused state, and have a feeling of being suddenly enlightened and seeing the light again. Therefore, it can be used as a compass to judge good and bad luck, decide to advance and retreat, and choose to pursue good luck and avoid bad luck.

Zhuge divination comes from early divination, which is a kind of foreknowledge and comes from shamanism. Religious scholars call early religion shamanism, but this shamanism is not Manchu shamanism. Its significance lies in helping people prepare and refer to possible future events in advance. Not decisive. But it plays an auxiliary role.

Zhuge's divination belongs to fortune telling, which is "foreknowledge" rather than "determinism". There is no accurate and inaccurate statement. Predicting is to prepare people for what may happen in the future. Shamanism believes that the pursuit is the unity of heaven and man and the integration with nature. Fortune-telling prediction itself violates the laws of nature, so fortune-tellers need to pay a corresponding price to make up for the behavior that violates the laws of nature. Many fortune tellers tell their masters that they are lucky or rich, but it will take three or four years to get better. This is because the price of fortune telling in recent years is bad luck, so there is an ancient saying that "people who are very easy don't predict." Fortune tellers who also help others predict also violate the laws of nature, so they need to pay a price in exchange. So some people are blind and deaf, and some fortune tellers die suddenly. In ancient times, the cost of fortune telling was clearly recorded. Several articles in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" wrote that "in this life, I went to the temple to seek witches, so I got more and more diseases."