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In Chinese society, fortune telling is a respected and important part of social and business culture. Thus, fortune tellers often take on a role which is equivalent to management consultants and psychotherapists in Western society. As management consultants, they advise business people on business and investment decisions. Many major business ...
Kau chim, kau cim, chien tung, [1] "lottery poetry" and Chinese fortune sticks are names for a fortune telling practice that originated in China in which a person poses questions and interprets answers from flat sticks inscribed with text or numerals.
Mien shiang (Chinese: 面 相; pinyin: miànxiàng meaning face (mien) reading (shiang)) is a physiognomic and fortune-telling practice in Chinese culture and traditional Chinese medicine which purports to determine aspects of person's character, personality, and (future) health by analyzing their face according to the five phases ("wu xing").
For many people, Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb 10 this year, is a time to consult the stars to find out what lies ahead in the coming months. We asked a top Hong Kong geomancer for her insights.
Days, hours, months, and years are all assigned one of the ten Celestial Stems (Chinese: 十天干) and one of the twelve Terrestrial Branches (Chinese: 十二地支) in the sexagenary cycle. A person's fortune is determined by looking up the branch and stem characters for each of these four parts of their birth time, with relation to the 10 ...
Chinese astrology — also known as Shu Xiang — dates back more than 2,000 years. Similar to traditional Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac has 12 zodiac signs that can determine a person's ...
Ziwei doushu, sometimes translated into English as purple star astrology, is a form of fortune-telling in Chinese culture.The study of destiny (Chinese: 命學; pinyin: mìngxué) is one of the five arts of Chinese metaphysics.
Bidding farewell to the mythical Dragon, the world welcomes the Year of the Snake on January 29 — the first day of the Lunar New Year. For those who celebrate this ancient festival, starting the ...