Does fortune telling often used by the ancients refer to horoscope fortune telling or palm reading fortune telling?

Statistics of the same person's life, whether it refers to eight-character fortune telling or palm reading fortune telling, the results are basically the same, so the two kinds of fortune telling often mentioned by the ancients are included.

Strictly speaking, fortune telling refers to reading palms, faces and horoscopes.

Finger-fan fortune-telling is a kind of behavior that uses personal information, such as the lines of face and hands, the eight characters of birth, the strokes of names, etc., to predict or judge good or bad luck and seek guidance.

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. While 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 attached great importance to the seal of bad luck, because small things can change the fate of the future. Finger-fan fortune-telling can be traced back to Xia and Shang Dynasties, and it can be confirmed that most of the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions are Oracle Bone Inscriptions. At that time, before the ancestors held major activities such as sacrifice, conquest, marriage, etc., they all burned tortoise shells or made a trip to the grass, and made pious divination on the matter to judge good or bad luck. This was probably the bud of early fortune telling. In the Zhou Dynasty, Duke Zhou and others compiled Zhouyi on the basis of predecessors' experience, and the art of divination rose to the theoretical level. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius and his disciples added an annotated article called Ten Wings to the Book of Changes, and from then on, the Book of Changes was also called the Book of Changes. Almost at the same time, Zou Yan, a doctor of the State of Qi, founded the theory of five elements, which was combined with the theory of yin and yang in the Book of Changes and became the theory of yin and yang and five elements. In the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, Jing Fang and others carried forward and gradually formed a set of theories and methods of divination. However, the divination and fortune-telling system at that time was still superficial, limited to the accounting level, and the accuracy of fortune-telling was not very high.

The history of fortune-telling began with Guiguzi in the Warring States Period. Another legend is that it originated from Li in the Tang Dynasty, but was later renamed Guiguzi. People who want to tell fortune often turn to some people who have studied numerology or are respected to seek guidance and solve problems for themselves. In ancient China, such figures were also called "fortune tellers".

Fan fortune-telling types refer to:

physiognomy

It used to be called a magical method to predict good luck or bad luck by observing the shape of people or places. This is one of the five technologies. Generally speaking, the so-called "phase" includes five types: seal phase, name phase, human phase, house phase and tomb phase. Observing the image existing in the phenomenal world is a kind of divination. This paper mainly analyzes the ancient fortune-telling in China from the perspective of national culture and philosophy.

astrology

Also known as astrology. A method of predicting world events by observing and explaining the positions and changes of the sun, moon and stars. It was very popular in ancient countries. Astrology has a certain influence on the development of ancient astronomy. It is a system that uses the relative position and motion of celestial bodies (especially the position of planets in the solar system) to explain or predict people's fate and behavior. It tries to explain people's character and destiny by birthplace, birth time and celestial position. All cultures in the world have very different astrological systems and theories. Astrologers also have different views on the scope of application of astrology. Some astrologers think that astrology can objectively predict events that can be verified in the future, while others think that the explanation of astrology is only tendency, and it cannot make predictions.

Eight characters

China's fortune-telling method. Superstition holds that the year, month, day and time of a person's birth have their own heavenly stems and earthly branches. If each item is replaced by two words, four items will have eight words. According to these eight words, we can calculate a person's fate. In the old customs, men and women must first exchange eight-character stickers when they are engaged, also known as "Geng stickers" or "Eight-character stickers" for short.

Tell someone's fortune by analyzing the components of Chinese characters.

Also known as "split character" and "phase character". A superstitious method of divination. Disassemble or merge the radical strokes of Chinese characters, and attach their meanings to infer good or bad luck.

divine

In ancient times, tortoiseshell, yarrow, etc. It was used, and later generations used copper coins and dental cards to infer good or bad luck.