What does divination mean?

The things used to throw in temples when asking for fortunes are called divination cups, and the divination method used to throw divination tools to obtain hexagrams is called divination.

Detailed explanation

(1) An old superstitious activity. Throw two clam shells or two pieces of bamboo and watch their pitch to predict good or bad luck. The wedge of Yuan Mingshi's "Pen'er Ghost": "The child bumped into a Jia Banxian in the Changjie Market, a fortune teller."

The fourth chapter of "Awakening of Marriage": "Chao Dashe panicked. Asking for fortune-telling in the Yue Temple, performing fortune-telling in front of the palace, and asking the blind man to tell fortunes. "Qu Youyuan's poem "You should tell the enemy clearly": "There is no need to tell fortunes, and there is no need to ask God to predict."

(2) Jue. Joking, joking. Chapter 99 of "Dream of Red Mansions": "I told my aunt a joke to relieve her boredom, but my aunt made a fortune-telling about me instead."

Extended information:

The origin and origin of fortune-telling Method:

The fortune teller hangs a cup on his shoulder, holds a bamboo pole with an iron hook in his hand, and throws the cup at the upper door of every house in the countryside while muttering something, which is also a skill of begging.

The art of old sociology is also a branch of the Book of Changes and Bagua has corresponding categories. However, some fortune tellers still draw the gourd, and after learning a few hexagrams that they can recite, they go out to beg and get by. To perform divination, you need a set of divination tools. For the divination cup, the root of a small moso bamboo should be sawed in half, and six pieces should be used like a small field fish. A small hole is drilled in the top of each piece, and the two pieces are strung together with a fine hemp rope in pairs.

It is divided into front and back, called Yin and Yang, front and back. There is also a thin bamboo pole about 2 meters long, with a small iron hook on the top of the bamboo pole. After the cup falls to the ground and after reciting the hexagram words, the bamboo pole is used to hook two hexagram ropes in series with three to calculate the scene. The hexagram is completed.

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