测字术在古代和卜卦、占星、算命、看相诸行诸式一样,被视为方术、方技,是占卜法的一种。测字,早年称作拆字,至隋朝被称作破字,在宋代又称为相字,其后以测字、拆字之称居多。测字通常有两种形式:一是测字先生自摆一个摊位,放上笔墨和写好了字的纸签等物,让求测者自行拈取,拈到什么字就测什么字;二是求测者自己写字,让测字先生就字拆解求测之事。第二种形式在宋代以后出现得较多,它要求测字先生具有丰富的阅历和随机应变的本领。 测字中涉及的内容很杂乱,上到军国大事,下到家庭琐事,诸如改朝换代、国祚、年号、官司、命运、谋官、出行、生意、疾病、婚姻、农事、生育等等,无所不包。在我国古代,测字十分盛行,成为人们行事的指南之一,并且一直延续到20世纪。虽然就整体而言,测字是迷信的东西,但它在一定程度上反映我国古代人类的文化走向和心态,故能出没于社会上层和民间;它有着自己的活动轨迹和承传路线,故其内在规律是可寻绎的;它在千百年的发展和变异中,形成了自己怪诞迷离的“理论体系”和纷纭繁芜的解拆模式,故包含着丰富的内涵;它在历史长河中时而泛起, Proverb in ancient times and divination, astrology, fortune-telling, look at all kinds of lines, like, is considered a technique, technique, is a kind of divination method. Measure the word, called the early years of dismantling the word, to the Sui Dynasty is known as the broken word, also known as the word in the Song Dynasty, followed by measuring the word, split the word mostly. There are usually two forms of measuring words: one is measuring a word by setting up a stall, put on the pen and writing the word paper sign and so on, so that the examinee picks it up, Testers to write their own, so measured word dismantling the word judge things. The second form appeared more after the Song Dynasty and required the character-measuring teacher to have rich experience and adaptability. Proverbs involved in the content is very messy, on the military affairs, down to the family trivialities, such as the reform, national emblem, year number, lawsuit, fate, plot officer, travel, business, disease, marriage, farming, childbirth and so on, Not included. In ancient China, measuring the words was very popular and became one of the guidelines for people's actions, which lasted until the 20th century. Although measured as a whole is superstitious as a whole, it reflects to a certain extent the cultural orientation and mentality of ancient Chinese people and thus can be found in the upper classes of society and in the private sector. It has its own track of activity and its transmission line, The inherent law is traceable; it has formed its own “obscurant” theoretical system and diverse and dismantling demolitions in the course of thousands of years of development and variation, and thus contains rich connotations; Occasionally,