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The ancients usually divined the fate of the country by observing the astronomical phenomena, but how did they judge the fortune of the country?
In fact, the theory of night sky observation has been produced in China for at least thousands of years, and now it is generally called astrology. It can be seen in many literary works and folk circulation. It is even said that there are many excellent ancients who can predict the changes of world events by observing the astronomical phenomena. The most famous ones are Sean in the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi in the Three Kingdoms, Li and Yuan Tiangang in the Tang Dynasty and Liu Bowen in the Ming Dynasty. And there is a saying that the stars correspond to the national luck, which is involved in many books, such as:

1. It is recorded in the Book of Changes: "The sky hangs like an elephant, and saints like it when they see good or bad luck."

2. Lao She's Teahouse also has this prediction: "I watch the sky at night, the purple star shines, and soon there will be a real dragon son of heaven." Needless to say, what MSI stands for.

Sima Yi of the Three Kingdoms looked at the sky at night and saw a dim star, so he predicted that Zhuge Liang had passed away.

4. The most famous is "Pushing the Cup" by Li and Yuan Tiangang. People have been talking about it to predict how many dynasty events will happen next.

5. And Liu Bowen's Pancake Song, too.

Some books say that using astronomical phenomena to predict good or bad is to look at "five stars, seven houses, three walls, four elephants and twenty-eight nights". Five stars are the five planets visible to the naked eye in Jin Mu, and seven governments are based on the moon and the sun. The "Three Walls" are divided into three walls: upper wall: Taiwei wall, middle wall: Wei Zi wall (where Emperor Wei Zi is located) and lower wall: Shi Tian wall. As for four images and twenty-eight stars, most of you are familiar with them, namely:

The seven lodging places of Oriental Qinglong are horn, sound, rafter, room, heart, tail and dustpan.

The seven nights in Xuanwu in the north are fighting, cattle, women, air, danger, houses and walls;

The seven houses of Xibaihu are Kui, Lou, Stomach, Zan, Bi, Gou and Shen.

South Suzaku's seven nights are well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and bird.

Dong Zhongshu established the system of heaven-man induction in the Western Han Dynasty, which linked the changes of astronomical phenomena with personnel and formed a relatively systematic theoretical system. With the help of this theoretical system, people began to predict some major events that will happen through the changes of astronomical phenomena, such as:

1, "I am worried about attacking the law enforcement star on the fifth star of the month."

2. "In the third year of Jingdi, there were red people in the north, more than ten feet long, or the sun was red, or the sky was split, and then there were seven soldiers."

In fact, I personally think astrology can predict climate change at most. As for the combination with personnel, it feels ridiculous today with advanced technology. Of course, I can't refute it. After all, there are so many so-called examples in history that I personally think they were invented by later generations.