Excuse me, how did fortune-telling come about? Which dynasty are you from?

Fortune-telling is a common name. The academic title is prediction, and the study of fortune-telling is called Yi Xue, also called Shu Shu.

The core of this theory is heavenly stems and earthly branches's Yin-Yang, Five Elements and Eight Diagrams Yijing, and its theoretical system is complex and profound.

Fortune-telling in a narrow sense is a prediction of the date of birth, while fortune-telling in a broad sense includes reading numbers, palm reading, eight diagrams and six hexagrams, Taoism, geography, geomancy and so on.

Ancient divination and divination belong to fortune telling.

Fortune-telling, China's prediction has a long history, and its origin can be traced back to Fu, the highest city. Then Zhou Wenwang began to play gossip, and fortune-telling began to improve gradually.

But the name fortune-telling first appeared in the Song Dynasty, and fortune-telling originated from Neo-Confucianism in the early Song Dynasty. It has nothing to do with ancient divination, but it also comes from ancient astronomy.