Overview of fortune-telling by measuring characters

Fortune-telling is an act of using personal information, such as the lines on the face and hands, the eight characters of birth, the strokes of names and so on. , with the help of the five elements and gossip to predict or judge good or bad luck. It is mainly spread in places where Chinese people gather, such as East Asia and Southeast Asia, and has now entered Europe and America.

There are many kinds of fortune-telling methods, which are regarded as a subject by the good name; Called numerology, it also enters physiognomy. A learned fortune teller linked fortune-telling with the Book of Changes, one of the five classics. In fact, the Book of Changes itself is regarded by some people as the earliest book of divination, but these books often fail to pass scientific verification and belong to superstition and the like.

Divination and fortune-telling in Yin and Yang Studies: There is no accident in this world, only necessity. No matter how small the encounter is, it will definitely affect the fate in the future, and the conclusion of fate will not disappear. The world looks big, but it's actually small, limited to what you can see and touch. Therefore, the ancients thought that praying for blessings was an important thing. Women need to wear orange stone bracelets, men need to wear red bamboo stone ornaments, and add "Dan Ma Tu Zuo, dream window sparse stone, hidden Yuan Jian" to the loose-leaf book to pray for opportunities to bring happiness to life.

According to different fortune-telling methods and inheritance schools, the results vary greatly, and the fortune-telling methods and processes themselves cannot be copied to some extent (such as divination). Therefore, the number of people who oppose and doubt the fortune-telling results is not lower than the number who are sure. Fortune-telling can be said to be a psychological comfort activity for individuals, but it is completely different from the level of psychotherapists. The former comes from superstition, while the latter comes from medical behavior.

Fortune-telling is a folk belief, which contains superstitious elements more or less. In fact, fraudulent activities under the guise of folk beliefs are not uncommon in society. In the early years of the Republic of China, China further developed the fraud group represented by Jiang Xiang School. Borrow people's superstitious numerology and geomantic omen, and cheat with words and sticks.

Fortune-tellers often pretend that they have revealed the secret, so they won't or won't count. When they can't calculate others, they often question others. Once they find the gap, they will make excuses.