How did fortune telling originate?

Legend has it that fortune-telling originated in Fuxi. Fortune-telling was originally called fortune-telling, and "fortune-telling" is just a popular name. Fuxi was inspired when he saw the patterns on the old horse in Luoyang. He drew the gossip of Yin and Yang according to the positive and negative changes of the pattern. Later, Zhou Wenwang "Jichang" was placed under house arrest by Shang Zhouwang. Bored, he improved Fuxi's gossip. Sima Qian wrote "Wang Wenju Zhouyi" in his book Bao Ren An, which is what later generations call the acquired gossip.

Innate gossip, founded by Fuxi, is used to measure astronomy and time, and can measure phenomena such as astronomical phenomena and climate change. However, in Zhou Wenwang's era, people not only wanted to know the astronomical phenomena and climate, but also wanted to know their own destiny and future events. Therefore, the acquired gossip founded by Wen Wang is used to measure the fate changes of people's lives. Now fortune telling is a gossip created by King Wen.

After the founding of New China, fortune-telling was banned as a feudal superstition. However, there are still many fortune tellers in the street, who make a living by looking at people's horoscopes. Objectively speaking, fortune telling is not completely superstitious. Some fortune tellers are really hard to predict, just like fortune tellers. Perhaps, they are just good at observing the development of things and summing up the laws.