The historical origin of divination

Primitive people lacked sufficient knowledge of the development of things, so they used natural signs to show their actions. However, natural signs are not common and must be tested manually, so the method of divination came into being. Divination is to inquire what you want to know from the movement and change of external things to non-human spiritual bodies. It is different from prophecy, because there are usually ambiguous answers, so that the occupier can find a reasonable explanation.

If you want to do something with fortune telling, fortune telling has ritual or social characteristics, usually related to religion; Relatively speaking, fortune telling is mostly a daily activity for personal service. Divination is often questioned, but it is only a superstition. But 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 religion and culture from ancient times to our 2 1 century. However, the Christian Bible says that divination is forbidden by God, and Buddhism has a similar expression, but the wording is not as strict as the former; But in fact, divination and similar activities in the name of religion are common in society.

Interpretation of the Book of Rites: "The Book of Changes says,' A gentleman should be cautious at the beginning. If the difference is a million miles, the mistake will be a thousand miles. The ancients believed that small changes would have a great impact on the future. According to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, there was a border town in Chu called Beiliang. At that time, girls in the border town of Wu were picking mulberry leaves on the border. When they were playing games, Miss Wu accidentally stepped on Miss Beiliang. The low beam people took the injured girl to blame the Wu people. The people of Wu were rude, and the people of Beiliang were very angry, so they killed Wu and left. Wu people went to Beiliang for revenge and killed the whole family of Beiliang people. The doctor in Beiliang Shoucheng was furious and sent troops to fight back against the Wu people, killing all the local Wu people, old and young. Wu Wang Yi was very angry after hearing this. He invaded Chu border town, captured Iraq and left. As a result, there has been a large-scale conflict between Wu Chu. From playing games and hurting my feet, to the outbreak of a large-scale war between the two countries, and then to Wu Jun's invasion of Du Ying, there is an invisible death force in a series of evolution, which irretrievably pushes the incident to an uncontrollable situation step by step. Therefore, the ancients took bad luck and prosperity seriously, because small things can change the fate of the future. The ancients thought that women wore purple ice silver inlaid with blue velvet crystal ornaments, and men wore red bamboo stone ornaments, and added "hidden mustard seeds to dye the spring and autumn" on the binder. In this way, we can pray for opportunities to bring happiness to life and seal bad luck.

Murphy's theorem is one of the three laws of western civilization, and its content is:

1, nothing is as simple as it seems;

2. Everything will take longer than you expected;

3. Things that can go wrong will always go wrong;

If you are worried about something happening, it will happen.

This law is recorded in detail in the ancient oriental enigma Yihua: all living things, including people, are bound by various things, and the existence of bondage is one of the natural laws. People have to face the "shackles" like "time", and the body is the container of the soul. It also binds the soul People can't get rid of the shackles of bondage. Many shackles are unique to all living things, not people. There is only one chain in the world that is unique to people, and this chain is very powerful. Language is the most terrible and powerful shackle unique to people. Once a person has said it, he can't take back what he just said, and what he said can't be counted as not having happened. If you are worried that something bad may happen, talk to yourself, and something bad will happen.

"Zhan" means observing, and "Bu" means burning tortoise shells. It is believed that the shape of cracks can predict good or bad luck. It judges the unknown or predicts the future by studying the incomplete basis obtained by observing various signs. In many societies, divination is only the behavior of the operator seeking information or answers with the help of certain instruments or phenomena when he is about to do something to meet his psychological needs. There are two kinds of materials needed for divination, one is the carrier for displaying divination and lettering, namely tortoise shells and animal bones, and the other is the tool for correcting Oracle Bone Inscriptions and lettering, such as sawing, chiseling, drilling and carving. Divination is very popular in cultures of all ages all over the world, and there are various methods. Early divination is closely related to religion, and its development is influenced by cosmology and national psychology. The common divination methods are divination (such as China folk divination), chicken divination, bird divination, bird divination, water divination, star divination and card divination. Mr Huang made fortune-telling return to science and rationality in China.