Tang Chen was stunned at first, and then said with a wry smile: "Old Zhou, I think you made a mistake......

Zhou Deqing was stunned: "Mistaken, what is wrong?"

"It is understandable that the elders are concerned about the marriage of the younger generations. Generally speaking, many people think that fortune-telling, physiognomy, divination and so on are all considered feng shui, but in fact, this is a big fallacy. Feng Shui is also a good person. Feng Shui is the force of nature and the great magnetic energy of the universe. Wind is the energy and energy, or 'aura' for short, and water is the flow and change of the aura. Feng Shui is the art of the earth, that is, the method of on-the-spot inspection of geography, also known as the physiognomy of the earth, the ancient name of Kanyushu, it is a philosophy that studies the laws of the environment and the universe, since man is a part of nature, nature is also a part of man, to achieve the realm of 'unity of heaven and man'.

What is 'Feng Shui'? From ancient times to the present, there are countless people who have defined Feng Shui, but the earliest definition of Feng Shui in history was Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty, and there is a cloud in his famous book "Book of Burials": "The mourner, take the breath and take the air to disperse, and the boundary water will stop, the ancients will not disperse when they gather, and the line will stop, so it is called Feng Shui, the law of Feng Shui, the water is the first, and the Tibetan wind is second." It can be seen that the art of feng shui is also the art of the earth, and the core is the choice of people's living or burial environment and the treatment of the laws of cosmic changes, so as to achieve good fortune and avoid evil. ”

After a pause, Tang Chen continued: "The eight-character numerology was first seen in the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, and people at that time only knew how to use the time of birth to deduce human diseases, and later people slowly discovered that this method could also be used in other aspects. After thousands of years of transmission and reform, the eight-character prediction technique was perfected in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Xu Ziping of the fifth dynasty changed to Rigan as the lord of the day, and the restraint of the five elements between the four pillars and the convergence of torture chong were the focus of his life, and he carried it forward. Today's eight-character proposition is based on the Ziping method as the authentic, so the eight-character numerology is also called 'Ziping method' or 'Ziping eight-character study'.

Legend has it that during the period of the Yellow Emperor, the Emperor's clan made a dry branch, and the Fuxi clan made a calendar, creating the Chinese calendar, which is now the lunar calendar. Since the era of the Yellow Emperor, it has gone through seventy-eight sixtieth birthdays. A sixtieth year, composed of the heavenly stem and the earthly branch in order. Of course, there is also a saying that it is derived from "Zhou Yi", in fact, the "Yi" scripture was compiled by the Xia Shang and Zhou dynasties, but now only "Zhou Yi" has been handed down. Bazi fortune-telling is the belief that the fate of our people is knowable and predictable, and we can predict the direction of the fate of a person's life through the time of birth. It provides a theoretical basis for our scientific revelation of the laws of movement of human life in the natural 'qi' of heaven and earth. This theory has some similarities with Feng Shui, but there are also many differences. ”

Zeng Lao was stunned: "It turns out that it is still so finely divided?"

Tang Chen said with a smile: "That's natural, there is a specialization in the art industry, and there is a precedence in hearing the Tao!"

Zhou Deqing pondered for a while before he said slowly: "Little master, what about appearance?"

Tang Chen took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and continued: "As for the origin of appearance, there are three main ones. First, it is the empirical science handed down from ancient times. Sociology, anthropology, psychology and aesthetics are included.

Second, it is the art of witch doctors in ancient times, in ancient times, witch and medicine is a concept, that the meridians of the human body are also the lifeblood of the human body, not only in charge of the health of the human body, but also show the fate of people, in other words, the meridians not only affect people's health, but also affect people's psychology, so the human body's various meridians in the facial features are expressed, so as to infer the health and psychological conditions of the human body. The so-called black and uneven color of Yintang are the methods of looking, smelling, asking and cutting in Chinese medicine later.

Three, is based on the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the three elements of luck, the appearance of the five senses, this process, in fact, has no real origin, is some later Feng Shui magicians, the principle of other life pushing methods, with experience, rigidly applied to physiognomy, in line with his life pushing techniques.

Ancient physiognomy was originally from the people, that is, the untouchables, the common people, these people's requirements for life, resulting in the law of the person, the earliest is the whole body physiognomy, the man has wide shoulders, long hands and long feet, is a good look, because such people can pick and resist, can do heavy work, not afraid of not being able to support the family. As for women, they have a round head, a thick body, a big buttocks, easy to give birth to, and can smoothly pass on the ancestry, such a woman is worth marrying, and now many ethnic minorities look at women mainly by the thickness of their thighs.

To be honest, the earliest phase people are not much different from phase animals. Later, physiognomy became more and more widespread among the people, and the areas involved also increased, so it flowed into the rich, and from the rich into the nobles and nobles, and from the nobles into the court. Through this inflow process, the methods of different social strata of each other are dissolved into it, and finally it is completed. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Lao couldn't help but smile: "I remember, there was a Soma in ancient times, could it be that this person is similar to Soma?"

Tang Chen also smiled: "As the saying goes, 'people can't look good', but in many cases, looking at a person's appearance, you can often judge how capable that person is...... This ability is what I just said, whether a man is powerful or not, whether a woman is gentle and lovely, can be seen, in fact, this is also a part of the person, and it can often be seen very accurately. Of course, some capable scholars can also grasp some rules and accurately calculate your past. But if you want to see what the future holds, it's still half guessing. ”

Zhou Deqing showed a wise smile: "There are too many unpredictable futures, just like when I was poor and white, I just wanted to set up a tea stall to spend my life, who would have thought that I could have today's life?"

Zeng Lao also agrees with this sentence: "There is a saying in Guangdong Province, called 'Rather bully the white beard, don't bully the slug', the future of young people is limitless, who can predict it?"

"That's right, a bad old man like us can't improve much. Only young people, if they have the heart to do things, it is not a problem to do everything every day. Zhou Deqing smiled, "Little master, what's going on with divination?"

Tang Chen thought for a moment before he said: "Divination, whether in China or in Western countries, originated very early, and almost as soon as it arose from human society, it gave rise to different 'divination'. Even with today's society, there are still horoscopes, tarot card divination, crystal ball prediction and other divination methods in the West, and China's 'gossip divination', lottery drawing, bone fortune telling, name measurement, cup fortune telling, dream interpretation and other divination methods. Through these special means, we can obtain information about earthly things or predict good fortune and misfortune. Divination, the study of incomplete evidence obtained from the observation of various signs, to judge the unknown or predict the future. Like in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the rulers liked to burn tortoise shells for divination, because turtles have a long lifespan, and the ancients believed that the longer the lifespan, the heavier the spirituality. The tortoise is to make a small nest on the tortoise shell, and then put it on the fire to bake it to make it crack, this is the 'omen', the ancients judged whether it was a 'bad omen' or 'good omen' according to the shape of the crack on the tortoise shell. The result of the judgment is engraved on the tortoise shell and preserved, which is the divination in archaeology. ”

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