Wind divination is an ancient Chinese form of omen reading. Practitioners observed the wind's direction, stren…
Wind divination is an ancient Chinese form of omen reading. Practitioners observed the wind's direction, strength, speed, its color and other visible signs, and the time it rose, to predict good or ill fortune.
In classical cosmology, wind is born of the interplay of yin and yang. Some reasoned that powerful spirits could disrupt that balance, so the arrival of fierce winds might be taken as an omen of a divine presence.