Drawing lots is a Chinese folk custom and one of the forms of divination. Nowadays, most Taoist temples, temples and folk temples put out sticks for people to draw sticks for divination. Drawing lots, like the Eight Diagrams, is a popular prediction method used by ancient Chinese people to judge the good or bad luck and misfortune of issues. The basis for judging good or bad luck is the number of signed poems obtained and the allusive content of the signed poems.

Of course, the lottery has a strong mysterious color, which contains the subjective conjecture of the drawer. It is an idealistic thing, and we don’t need to talk about it here. But each lot's poem is an allusion, and these poems and allusions were created by ancient literati. The content is rich and colorful, and it contains many theological, literary, historical, religious, and philosophical truths that we must explore and study. Therefore, in order to explore and study the "lottery culture" more deeply, it is necessary for us to briefly talk about the prediction methods and related issues in the "lottery". Basic introduction Chinese name: Lottery Country: China Definition: One of the forms of divination Nature: Metaphysics English: Kau Cim or Lottery poetry Crosstalk terminology, lottery culture, basic principles of lottery, Crosstalk terminology lottery - a small number of audience members leave the venue and draw lots, first Write several lots, fold them one by one, shuffle them, and let one or several people draw them. 1. The superstitious activity of cutting bamboo sticks into sticks, matching them with sentences, and drawing them in front of gods to predict good or bad luck. "Xing Shu Ji" by Jubai of the Tang and Song Dynasties: "At the beginning, I prayed to Zhang Aizi in the temple, and the four characters "Whoever defies heaven will be in trouble" were drawn by lot." 2. Cast lots. "Yuan and Ming Shi Lei Chao·Guanpinmenyi" written by Yao Zhiyi of the Qing Dynasty: ""Wanli Annotation": Sun Piyang was the official department, and he changed the selection method and drew lots in person. People at the time mocked the Quan Department as the lottery department." Hong Shen's " Act 1 of "Bao De Xing": "Every man who has passed the age of eighteen and has not yet reached the age of forty-five has the obligation to serve as a soldier. Whoever goes first will be drawn by lot. Whoever is drawn first should go first." The modern way of drawing lots no longer uses wooden sticks, but generally uses paper. A glance at the mentality of those who seek fortune-telling in fortune-telling culture 1. Those who seek fortune-telling mostly come from the four words "praying for good luck and dispelling evil" and the questions they ask are the following categories; (1) Asking about physical health and life expectancy ( 2), love, marriage, family (3), asking about gains and losses in wealth (4), asking about official luck (5), asking about academic progress (6), asking about the success and failure of children and daughter-in-law 2. The contemporary "lottery craze" "The origin of the contemporary "lottery craze" has both historical and practical reasons, including political and economic influences as well as ideological and cultural factors. This requires an in-depth and detailed analysis that is realistic and realistic. 3. The impact of the contemporary "lottery fever" This is another issue that requires objective and calm analysis. The correct analysis results are important for cultivating national sentiment, improving national quality, building national civilization, and consolidating social stability and stability. Not without benefits. 4. Preliminary diagnosis of “lottery fever” “lottery fever” should at least be regarded as a contemporary social and cultural phenomenon. Is this a normal state or an abnormality? Is it an accidental phenomenon or an inevitable phenomenon? Or a combination of all these? This needs to be determined through consultation. The culture of drawing lots can be said to have a long history in the history of Chinese culture and is an oceanic evolution of its history, which requires academic research. The "lottery craze" emerged in the late 1980s, but "lottery craze" has existed in China since ancient times. In Chinese history, "lottery craze" has been continuous and continuous. This is also a cultural tradition. Today's "lottery craze" "It is just a continuation of this cultural tradition under new historical conditions. This is both a historical existence and a realistic objectivity. This is an unavoidable fact. The key lies in how to treat and deal with this fact. Chinese cultural system - Yang culture and Yin culture What is "Tao"? "Laozi" said: "Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao." "Yi" said: "One Yin and one Yang are the Tao." People can do whatever they want with this sentence. We can come up with self-explanatory explanations from different angles, and we might as well try to give another explanation.

From the perspective of system theory, "Tao" is a large system. Under this large system, there are two opposing systems, one is the "Dao" system, the yang system, and the other is the "very Tao" system, the yin system. This proves that in the study of Chinese cultural history, "Tao" can be regarded as the overall system of the entire traditional Chinese culture, and the yang system of "Ke Dao" is a subsystem under the overall system. This subsystem refers to the "manifest" system. "Sexual culture" and "WTO culture" refer to a series of contents such as administration, law, military, economy, science and technology, ethics, literature, art, etc. that directly affect the livelihood of the people and the governance of the country, such as the Confucian ethics of character, sincerity, sincerity, The set of rectification, repair, rectification, governance and peace belongs to the category of this sub-system. Then the "extraordinary" Yin system is another subsystem under the general system. This subsystem refers to "hidden culture," "outer world culture," which generally does not directly affect people's livelihood and the governance of the country, but it does It has been playing a subtle role. In the history of Chinese culture, this system is probably fingernail divination, Yi divination, elephant divination, Chu divination, star divination, fortune divination, dream divination, miscellaneous divination, Taiyi, Qimen, Kan, and Zeji. , astrology, astrology, internal and external elixirs, qigong health preservation, a series of contents such as taking food to avoid grains, seduce gods, spells, witchcraft, Fangzhongshu, Taoism, Buddhism, worship of gods, totems and gods worship, etc., with mysterious culture . The relationship between the yin culture system and the yang culture system is a dialectical unity of opposites. You have me in you, and you have me in you. For example, in traditional Chinese medicine, there is yin within yang, and in Qi Men Zeng, there is yang within yin, which means that yin and yang meet each other.