From ancient times to the present, people have been obsessed with the metaphysics of fortune telling, according to the "Book of Rites and Tables": "Yin people respect gods, lead the people to serve gods, first ghosts and then rituals." It can be seen that from the Yin Shang period, people began to use divination and pray to ghosts and gods to deal with large and small affairs, which was confirmed by a large number of oracle bones unearthed in modern China.
Oracle bones from more than a thousand years ago, is the earliest recorded system of writing in China's history, more than 3,000 years ago, from 1899 when first discovered, in the past hundred years, there have been about hundreds of thousands of pieces of oracle bones have been excavated, of which there are more than 120,000 pieces in China, but now only about 2,000 deciphered texts. Most of the above records are the divination records of the Yin Shang royal family.
Including weather, farming, life, sacrifices and other major events, experts have found that the oracle bone part of the font and the ancient architectural shape is very similar, so experts speculate that from the glyph of the oracle bone, you can understand the ancient period, the development and form of the building structure, such as the oracle bone in the "palace", is a representative font, can be seen as under a large house, covered with two or more indoor space of the house, experts believe that this is the ruling class at that time only have a tall building, unique shape.
For the emperors after Yin Shang, divination and interrogation are also very common things, such as the Tang Dynasty's most famous xiangshu master Yuan Tiangang, his "Push back map", which has not been deciphered until now, in the eighth year of Zhenguan and Wu Zetian's childhood, they saw the two of them, the most famous is that when he saw Wu Zetian in his infancy, he asserted that he could be the lord of the world" and proved that Wu Zetian really overthrew Li Tang, established Wu Zhou, and established himself as emperor.
In the Ming Dynasty, The Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang also let xiangshi calculate his fate. According to the records, when he was a teenager, Zhu Yuanzhang traveled around because of his family's poverty, and at the age of 17, he traveled all over the famous capital of Huaixi, all the way from Haozhou to the south, passing through Henan, Faith, Chenzhou and other places, and finally returned to the Huangjue Temple, in these three years of experience, he not only saw the world, but also understood the current situation of social life, which had a great impact on the rule of his emperor.
In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, with the outbreak of the peasant uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang also resolutely joined the rebel army, after Zhu Yuanzhang joined the army, he was shrewd and capable, brave and strategic, righteous and righteous, and soon established a good reputation, Guo Zixing, who was the leader of the rebel army at the time, was very appreciative of him, promoted him all the way, regarded him as his confidant, and took Zhu Yuanzhang with him for discussion on all major matters. Guo Zixing had a daughter with the surname Ma, and seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was a rare talent, he promised the Ma clan to Zhu Yuanzhang one by one.
Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige in the army has been higher, in 1353 AD, the internal contradictions within the rebel army are continuous, Zhu Yuanzhang feels that he has established a force of his own, in June, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown to recruit troops, the old playmates Xu Da, Zhou Dexing and other people heard about it, they joined Zhu Yuanzhang's Red Turban Army, and it did not take long to gather more than seven hundred people, in this way, Zhu Yuanzhang became the leader of a small force in the rebel army, and after Guo Zixing knew, he promoted Zhu Yuanzhang to be a townman.
In the winter of the thirteenth year, zhu Yuanzhang left Guo Zixing and went south, passing through Dingyuan to Chuzhou, and collected 20,000 people, and also met the celebrity Li Shanchang, who was instructed by him. Zhu Yuanzhang was good at employing people, and he was close to his subordinates, and he had feelings and righteousness, so his prestige in the army was extremely high, if it were not for Guo Zixing's promotion grace, zhu Yuanzhang's ability would soon be able to replace him, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not do this, just after Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Chuzhou, Guo Zixing also came to Chuzhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately surrendered his military power.
At this time, he had thirty thousand rebel troops in his hands, strict discipline, Guo Zixing was greatly pleased after he got the military power, and he trusted Zhu Yuanzhang even more, in 1355, after Zhu Yuanzhang attacked another county, Guo Zixing appointed him as the chief military officer, zhenshou and zhou, in the middle of the year, Guo Zixing died of illness, Zhu Yuanzhang became the left deputy marshal of the rebel army, said to be a deputy marshal, in fact, his actual power was already equivalent to the commander-in-chief.
Since Guo Zixing's death, Zhu Yuanzhang basically did not have to be subject to people, but considering that the Han and Song dynasties were powerful and could help them establish their might, this was the time to replenish their strength and secretly expand their strength. Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was stationed in western Zhejiang, one day, Zhu Yuanzhang met a Xiangshi, and that Xiangshi saw Zhu Yuanzhang until his temperament was extraordinary.
Then he said a lot of flattering words, who knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was not moved, but asked: Since Mr. Zhu Yuanzhang can look at the face, then I don't know if I can live long? Zhu Yuanzhang, a Xiangshi, believed his words, and immediately pretended to pinch his fingers and calculate, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: You can live one more day than me.
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed on the spot, and directly let this Xiangshi be put to death, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang's cronies around him were dissuaded, for this kind of superstitious thing, everyone was adhering to the psychology of preferring to believe in what he had and not have, and persuaded him to give up, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to let the man go and insisted on beheading him. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had traveled in all directions when he was young, and he had seen a lot of knowledge, and naturally knew the deception of these so-called Xiangshi and was not at all moved. After the death of the beheaded Xiangshi, Zhu Yuanzhang remained alive and even soon after, established the last Dynasty in Chinese history ruled by the Han Chinese.