Xie Yiwu's mastery of divination

In the history of China, the composition of alchemists is very complicated, ranging from knowledgeable intellectuals to uneducated charlatans. There are not only scholars engaged in traditional science and technology research, but also ordinary farmers and businessmen, as well as politicians who go in and out of the court, and most of them are hermits and Taoists.

Xie Yiwu, the secretariat of Jingzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was influenced by martial arts literature since he was a child. The Biography of Xie Yiwu in the Later Han Dynasty records that he "wrote six books, pushed the stars, made comprehensive school records, explored the sacred secrets, observed the calendar, occupied the heavens and the earth, combined with God, and learned the king's affairs according to his virtue."

Xie Yiwu's own prediction of his own death date is quoted from the Record of Huiji Hall, which is very accurate. Before he died, he said to his son, "In the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, bones will be found. Burying a hanging coffin, the tomb can't afford a grave. "