Fortune-telling in Sui Dynasty _ Fortune-telling Master in Sui Dynasty

What is the relationship between Yuan Shoucheng and Yuan Tiangang?

Yuan Shoucheng and Yuan Tiangang are uncles.

Yuan Shoucheng is Yuan Tiangang's uncle. Yuan Tiangang was a metaphysician and astronomer in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties.

In The Journey to the West's ninth "Yuan Shoucheng's Unselfish Music", there is a passage describing Yuan Shoucheng, who was born "grotesque and beautiful as a flower", and was good at breaking yin and yang. Because he could figure out the location of Weihe aquarium and let fisherman Zhang figure out when he could catch fish, King Jinghe was very angry and scared, so he went to Chang 'an to find trouble and asked him to calculate the time when it rained.

Relevant records of Yuan Shoucheng.

In the 13th year of Tang Zhenguan, there was a divination teacher named Yuan Shoucheng in Chang 'an, who was a fortune teller. It is said that he knows Yin and Yang and can tell the difference between life and death. This man's background is not simple. He was the uncle of Yuan Tiangang, the imperial supervisor of Qin Dynasty, and Yuan Tiangang, a famous astrologer in Tang Dynasty, invented the fortune-telling method that has been passed down to this day.

Yuan Tiangang's introduction:

Yuan Tiangang is a little lonely and poor. Sui dynasty served as an official order, and Tang dynasty served as a fire pit order. In the eighth year of Zhenguan (634), Emperor Taizong heard his name and called him to the DPRK, which was comparable to Yan Junping, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty.

Yuan Tiangang is an expert in physiognomy. According to the Records of the Old and New Records of the Tang Dynasty, he once visited the young Wu Zetian and said that he was "the master of the world".