Abstract：Scholars studying Divinatory Methods of Qinghua slips usually take the examples in large number in that book as real cases. Some even take them as proof to make a statistical study of the probability of each number in the divinatory examples. But this is a misconception. Divinatory Methods used examples to explain “the principle and methods of divination”. The examples used were selective and targeted, and were basically not the examples of real divination cases but hypothetical ones. Some were even perfect hypotheses which were impossible in real divination cases. Therefore, the result from the statistics of the frequency of the numbers in these divinatory examples does not represent the authentic probability of real divination cases.
2016, Vol. 33 
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