NDLI: An Overview of Chinese Fortune Telling in Traditional Times

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An Overview of Chinese Fortune Telling in Traditional Times

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Author	Smith, Richard J.
Copyright Year	2019
Description	From earliest times, fortune telling has played an important role in Chinese history. One obvious difficulty in discussing Chinese divination in Western languages is the wide variety of possible translations for Chinese terms. Shang dynasty divination practices reveal patterns of conceptualization and categorization that lasted for several millennia in China – for example, the early use of sexegenary cyclical characters for marking time. The interpretation of dreams has been a prominent feature of Chinese divination since the Shang dynasty, and by the Qing period it was highly refined in both theory and practice. A heightened attunement to physical forms and symbolic images, whether perceived in the sky, on earth, in writing or even in the shape of everyday objects, influenced many Chinese divination techniques, including geomancy, or “siting” – the art of selecting auspicious locations for tombs, houses, and other structures. Book Name: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture
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Ending Page	320
Page Count	24
Starting Page	297
DOI	10.4324/9781315453491-17
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2019-12-06
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture Chinese Divination Structures Dynasty Earliest Times Fortune Telling
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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