The development course of plum blossom art

After Zhouyi, China's divination gradually developed into a huge specialized research field. In the Han Dynasty, Fang Jing invented yarrow divination according to the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. This method is still very influential. In the Tang Dynasty, with the high development of economy and culture, people became more intelligent, so they simply invented an extremely simple divination method: the method of "replacing divination with money", which used three copper coins to predict good or bad luck. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shao Yong invented a more flexible divination method, which can be based on the year, month, day, strokes, words, size, people and still life. Shao Yong insisted on the principle of "no occupation without reason" because he got these methods for a reason. The book "The Change of Plum Blossom Numbers" is divided into five volumes, which mainly tells the story of the change of the number of images, the creation of grams with the body, the determination of the total, the mystery of calligraphy and painting, and the separation of characters.