Hong Pimo and Jiang Yuzhen’s “Ancient Chinese Fortune Telling” 228 pages PDF download. Contents Preface Chapter 1 The origin of fortune-telling Section 1 The emergence of the concept of destiny and the concept of destiny of pre-Qin scholars Section 2 The origin, development and maturity of fortune-telling Chapter 2 The basic theory of fortune-telling Section 1 Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Section 2 Festival Yin Yang Five Elements

Hong Pimo Jiang Yuzhen “Ancient Chinese Fortune Telling” 228 pages PDF download.

Contents

Preface, Preface, Chapter 1, The Origin of Fortune-telling, Section 1, The Origin of the View of Destiny and the Pre-Qin Philosophy of Destiny, Section 2, The Origin, Development and Maturity of Fortune-telling, Chapter 2, The Basic Theory of Fortune-telling Section 1 Stems and Earthly Branches Section 2 Yin-Yang and Five Elements Section 3 Coordination of Stems and Earthly Branches and Five Elements of Yin-Yang Section 4 Five Elements and Four Seasons and Five Directions Chapter 7 The Twelve Zodiac Signs and the Earthly Branches Chapter 3 The Specific Methods of Four-Pillar Fortune-telling Use God’s fourth horoscope related to the stars, gods, evil spirits, fifth numerology, analysis of the five elements and stems and branches Viewpoints Section 8 Calculation of wealth and poverty, longevity and disease Section 9 Look at people’s temperament and appearance from the horoscope and five elements Section 10 Look at the horoscope and discuss the six relatives Examples Section 13 Views on Women’s Fate Section 14 Prohibition of Marriage Section 15 Two fortune-tellings in “Jin Ping Mei” and “Dream of Red Mansions” Tong’s fortune-telling method of bones Chapter 4 Criticism of fortune-telling Section 1 Mozi’s view of “non-fate” Section 2 Did the ancients believe in fortune-telling? Section 3 The symbolic law of mirages and precarious deductive methods in fortune-telling Section 4 Academic, superstitious? Postscript

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