Chinese astrology in the Ming dynasty, once lost, to the late Ming dynasty introduced by western missionaries astronomical calculation technology to posterity.Ming the founding emperor zhu yuanzhang, ordered the ban xi folk astronomical number, joint astronomical calendar is also unknown, and several into JueXue astrology.Beginning in the late Ming dynasty, such as the present people from the western Christian missionaries to study astronomy, Chinese astrology just now.

When the qing dynasty, emperor kangxi hobby ancient cultural relics, for an interest in astronomy calendar, besides appointed scholar with western missionaries to study astronomy knowledge, more for ancient Chinese astrology, and collected "ku", "integration of ancient and modern books such as ancient encyclopedia.Chinese people on the basis of western technology, integrated predecessors' astrological ideas, began the development of native Chinese astrology.Although after the qing generation scholars efforts, astrology and not in the folk popular, cut off from the main reason is that astrology inheritance a quite long time, unique folk know astronomical observations, and ancient astrology books more errors, generally one way of advocating Confucianism, so only kun in the palace institution study astrology.If not banned by government, astrology in ancient times is also a very professional knowledge, ordinary reader rarely study.Folk popular, on the other hand, the son of eight, easy hexagrams divination life, to a certain extent, meet the needs of people never doubt to reassure, it just substitute the social function of astrology, therefore people for astrology to predict the future is not high.

When in the early period, the vast majority of practising fortune-teller odd fortuneteller understand only eight words, easy hexagrams.In the second world war, began to some people advocate like astrologyChinese bucket number.Easy to learn, because Chinese bucket number than eight words is quite attractive for people.During those decades, Taiwan and Hong Kong and published several books emerge in endlessly, Chinese fight prevalence than horoscope and the way.

Mainland after the baptism of the cultural revolution, Chinese old learning difficult to survival, astrological numerology as superstitious color knowledge more not circulated.Mainland China for Hong Kong and Taiwan pop feng shui and Chinese bucket number is strange, but keeps a development space for western astrology.Since the 1980 s, China is gradually opening to the outside world, the western culture are both novel and unfamiliar, while a large number of absorbing foreign culture knowledge, astrological subsequently introduced into China again, but to popular shape: this is horoscopes.Entertainment newspaper, website will regularly published a different constellation of fortune, a comparison between different constellation way of doing things.There are many signs of the zodiac believers in especially after 80.