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Chinese Civilization Pranctices?
i need some information about the Chinese tradition or whatever you call it, about them praising or consulting or asking the dead people about everyday problems...something like that.....
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- Wa LaoLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
i think what you mean is 擲聖筊 (ZHI SHENG JIAO). this is can be widely seen in chinese praying rituals, to god or to the dead people.
擲 = throw
聖 = holy
筊 = a kind of bamboo device used in divination
this bamboo (or wooden) device is actually a pair of crescent shape block, one side rounded and the other side flat.
when the prayer has a question to ask the god or the dead people, the person will ask the question in his heart, then throw the two blocks on the floor. if both rounded side face up, meaning the answer is negative, if both rounded side face down, means "no answer at the moment", the prayer may ask again. if one of the block face up and the other face down, the answer is positive.
when this bamboo device is unavailable, coins can be used as substitute.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Eh, I do not see how this woul be a main issue for them greater than something else is. If our courting approaches for matters billions of years historic are idea to be unsuitable via them, I see no rationale they could agree on our courting approaches for a couple of thousand years in the past... They threw out all of that technological know-how. As for different files, writing itself is best approximately 6000 years historic all over the place, or even then there were not any annually files surviving... So I'd simply keep on with the dinosaur proof.