Unscramble auspicious choice

As a traditional custom of the Han nationality, choosing good luck has a long history. As a mathematical skill, choosing good luck has a history of more than two thousand years.

Broadly speaking, all numerology techniques, including Zhouyi Bagua, Taiyi, Liu Ren, Daoism, Bird Star, Chen Cong, fencing, geomancy, wind angle, astrology, loneliness, etc., can be collectively called fortune telling, all of which provide people with good or bad luck information through certain methods.

In a narrow sense, choosing auspicious days refers to a method of choosing auspicious days and auspicious hours according to the calendar, calculating according to the numerical values of year, month, day and hour, and comprehensively referring to determine the avoidance methods. To put it simply, the so-called auspicious day of the zodiac is to choose a auspicious day of the zodiac according to a certain method, so the Han people directly call it choosing a day, watching a day and picking a day. In ancient times, it was also called Ji Juan and Ji Jiao.

The art of choosing good luck was formed in the Han Dynasty, and there are many schools. According to the biographies of Japanese historians and Han Shufang's books, the technique of choosing good luck in Han Dynasty includes five elements, integrity, building and moving, Chen Cong, calendar, heaven and man, Taiyi, Feng Jiao, Qimen, Zheng Qi, Yuan Qi, six days and seven minutes, various trades and Japanese styles, and it is quite specialized.

The characteristic of choosing good luck in Han dynasty is "divide". The theories of various factions are self-contained. The technique of choosing good luck in later generations is characterized by combination. Various theories are integrated, and the Gregorian calendar is the form of expression. Therefore, the auspicious technique we see and the Gregorian calendar are a complex synthesis of auspicious choices.