Reading has a long history in China.Dating back to the 7th century BC during the spring and autumn."Article in the" zuo: once buried, sun ao and heard about the murder sent to a funeral service uncle suits will visit fortune-teller, then let his two sons, uncle served to sun ao and said: "the valley can sacrifice for you, and difficult to bury you.Valley of mandibula plump, their offspring will be prospering in lu."

Such as in "historical records", "wu yue chun qiu" in the history books are about gu zi qing, wu city more early phase is activities such as records, to the warring states period popular visit fortune-teller, han period, microscopy has been developed rapidly, only the deeds of liu bang a visit fortune-teller, shiji has a variety of detailed records, han dynasty,.more specifically to Li Tang, visit fortune-teller become important social class, XiangShu up to more than 30 species, more than one hundred and thirty volumes.Since the song and Ming dynasties, visit fortune-teller atmosphere to the peak.Many fortuneteller become dignitaries, many intellectuals, upper celebrities interest theory study reading, a lot of XiangShu full ShuSi, Ming, convinced it gradually to the folk.Become a kind of prediction method for the masses to predict the fate.