The story-telling method is also called Ce Zi and is a traditional Chinese method of fortune telling by analyzing the parts and number of strokes in Chinese characters of personal names. If the fortune-teller finds that the combination of characters, number of strokes, etc. used in your name is unlucky, then you should think of changing it!

Ce Zi was prevalent in ancient China and this way of augury is still practiced in some rural areas in China nowadays. In the augury, a fortuneteller breaks a Chinese character down into smaller, simpler components, analyze them and then tell the fortune or misfortune of the person who wants to know his/her fate through Ce Zi.

There is another augury related to Chinese characters. It is a fortune telling tool that is able to predict whether you are born with a fortunate life (living comfortably) or a poor and hard life. It uses your date of birth and hour of birth to generate eight characters using four Celestial Stems and four Terrestrial Branches. With the eight different characters many different readings can be performed to check for wealth, marriage and so on.