Ancient Chinese astrology through long-term development, to the tang dynasty has been a important qualitative change: astrology before that astrology has always been simple, whereas in the tang dynasty and fortune tellers, combining to form a new star: star life art, which is astrology and birth horoscope and power god evil spirit, the combination of factors, such as to analyse the fate of a person's life.Astrology is used to predict the country's social or natural calamity change theory and technology, it is not for one person, but life is totally different from the operation, it is not concerned about the state, society, natural understanding not only personal affairs such as a specific character of the fate of the future.Not only the object of the two completely different, and also has a bigger difference in prediction time.Astrology to predict the recent incident in the future, only commonly also involves only years after the incident, and most rare cases to predict the result of a few decades.The star life art is to predict a person's entire career matters, is generally going to predict a person from birth to death during various fate.Due to the star's life, so we say that astrology so far has had the qualitative change, a new breakthrough.At this point, two major part of ancient Chinese astrology and all form, make the development of astrology.

In the tang dynasty, astrology has developed an unprecedented complex detailed, have reached the degree of being felt the extreme, so to speak.The concentrated expression of star of magnum opus "kaiyuan accounted for by the advent of.Extremely the tide, however, the development of things all so, astrology is no exception.Astrology after the crest of the kai yuan accounts for the actual self and social reality from the past that kind of close relationship, rather than by society and scholar's attention, its social function and the impact on the academic thought, astrology is absolutely not han dynasty and their works.This table star of art has been decline, lose their vitality, its status gradually for the rising star of the life.

In the Ming and qing dynasties, China's ancient astrology, astrology and star life) has developed very rich mature, become a complicated academic and cultural phenomenon.In modern times, astrology is in decline.Astrology decline, however important reason mainly lies in the Chinese history to modern times, has had the unprecedented change, and to adapt themselves to the historical period, one of the cultural phenomenon of astrology, failed to update from their own adjustment to adapt to the new historical conditions, the incompatibility with the time environment have caused its decline.Especially after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the social system and ideology and social customs have changed dramatically, the popularization of marxism and scientific thought, effectively eliminate the astrology is based.After decades of materialism and atheism education, people long been threw the astrology outside the cloud nine.The decline of astrology is historically inevitable.