What are the similarities and differences between divination and finger-fan fortune telling?

About divination and finger-fan fortune telling

Finger-fan fortune-telling is an act of using personal information, such as facial and hand lines, birthdates, name strokes and other matching skills to predict or judge good or bad luck and seek guidance.

Divination is a mysterious activity to explore things with supernatural methods. If you want to do something with the finger fan, divination has ritual or social characteristics, usually related to religion; Fans' fortune telling is more about serving their daily activities. Divination is often questioned by some people. This is just superstition. However, advocates will say that there are many anecdotes to prove the effectiveness of divination. Divination is a universal cultural phenomenon. Anthropologists have found that divination can be found in religions and cultures from ancient times to the present. However, the Christian Bible says that divination is forbidden by God.

In ancient Chinese, "Zhan" of "divination" refers to Zhan Ji, and "divination" refers to tortoise divination. Zhan Ji and Guibu are ancient divination methods in China, among which Guibu has a longer history, but it has been lost. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins is the direct archaeological evidence of its existence. Zhan's method has been preserved since it was recorded in Cohesion.

In China, there has been a philosophy of harmony between man and nature since ancient times, so the rise and fall of personnel can be expressed by natural changes. On the one hand, divination is a kind of mysticism, on the other hand, it is the practical application of various natural science experiences.

Scientific research has been able to successfully predict some future events, such as solar eclipse, weather forecast and volcanic eruption, but these are not divination. Strictly speaking, divination presupposes the influence of some supernatural force or fate, while scientific prediction comes from a mechanized, emotionless world view and relies on the natural laws of experience. Therefore, from the definition of operational research, any activity that uses methods that scientific research considers ineffective to predict can be said to be divination.