Fortune-telling is all about charlatanism, and there are always more fakes than real ones.
However, some methods must be used to make people feel that they are magical, so that they will willingly pay money to be deceived.
It is said that in the old days, there was a fortune teller, known as "Feng Banxian", who would set up a table on the street every day with pens, paper, copper coins, bamboo sticks and other items on it for divination.
Sometimes he actually calculates your fortune based on your birth date and the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes, but he is usually not accurate.
Divine fortune-telling must have used certain methods.
This Feng Banxian mainly used the "Qiankun Bag" to tell fortunes.
A person who uses this method to defraud will place a linen bag next to the stall with a bulging bag of unknown contents.
If someone comes to ask for a fortune, he will first listen to his accent and deduce where the person is from.
Then observe the physical characteristics, place of origin, age, clothing and behavior, and infer that the person comes from a rich or poor family and is studying or doing business.
If the person is in shabby clothes and has no business, Feng Banxian will find an excuse to send him away.
If he meets a wealthy customer, Feng Banxian will confuse and say: "Everyone has a destiny, and everything is determined by fate.
Your destiny has already been stored in my bag of heaven and earth.
If you don't believe it, We can verify it on the spot.”
How to test it is to ask the visitor to write his birth date, place of origin and industry on a piece of paper.
After writing, give it to Feng Banxian.
He will pick it up and read it from beginning to end.
During the period, he will also say some words that everyone can understand or understand.
Don't understand the words.
After he finished reciting, he opened the bag and took out a piece of paper to invite the visitors to look at it.
The contents written on the paper, such as the birth date, the number of men and women in the family, whether there are any heirs, etc., are exactly the same as what the person wrote before.
If you look at the fortune on the back of the paper, you have to collect the hexagram gold.
It varies from person to person, and there is no fixed number.
There are high prices and low prices.
Feng Banxian said: "You are a noble person, at least ten oceans away."
The man didn't understand the meaning and thought he had met a living god.
No matter how much money he asked for, he would pay it without hesitation and asked Feng Banxian to comment on it.
In fact, Feng Banxian's "Qiankun Bag" used a very simple deception method.
In the linen bag, there is often a dwarf boy.
When he recited the birthday and horoscopes written by the customers, the dwarf in the bag would copy them in shorthand on the paper.
During this period, the fortune teller would make comments or comments, or say some slang in the industry, and secretly inform the dwarf in the bag. , he will randomly write some fortune disasters and so on according to what Feng Banxian said.
When Feng Banxian finished reading the piece of paper, the dwarf in the bag also wrote the so-called "fate paper" according to his wishes.
Feng Banxian put his hand into the cloth bag and took out the temporarily recorded "fate paper" for the customers to compare.
If there was any difference, it would be really weird.
In fact, this method is not easy.
First, you need to find a dwarf boy who can not only take shorthand, but also write beautifully, and know more words to be your apprentice.
If you look for a semi-literate person who doesn't know a few Chinese characters, the fortune teller will read half of it, and suddenly the Qiankun Bag will shout: "Master, stop reading it now, I haven't remembered the previous words, what about the other characters so-and-so?"
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