I believe that people who have seen costume dramas know more or less about Daoism and the five gossip. In ancient times, due to the limited scientific level and people's cognition, many things could not be well explained, so many people would use the knowledge of metaphysics to understand.
Liu Ji's portrait
Daoism was almost a science in ancient times, and many people would follow some metaphysical masters to learn Daoism. Among them, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen are the most famous people who have mastered and used it.
Liu Bowen was an adviser and military commander under Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty. After the founding of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen was named the founding hero. Liu Bowen was very clever since he was a child. He learned a lot of knowledge and the true meaning as soon as he learned it. Liu Bowen was not only proficient in politics, military affairs and literature, but also made great achievements in Daoism.
Liu Bowen is often called "the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang", not only because Zhu Yuanzhang invited Liu Bowen to come out of the mountain, but also because Liu Bowen, like Zhuge Liang, has many extraordinary talents and is proficient in Zhuge Liang's magical powers. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that Liu Bowen is "Zhuge near-re-embodiment".
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Liu Bowen was familiar with Taoism. He often asks about this knowledge and sometimes tests Liu Bowen. On one occasion, when Liu Bowen entered the DPRK, Zhu Yuanzhang covered the baked wheat cake he had eaten. Liu Bowen court, let Liu Bowen guess, Liu Bowen snapping his fingers to guess. Zhu Yuanzhang especially admired him.
Zhuge Liang predicted the content of Liu Bowen.
Zhuge Liang is a legendary wizard who plays with mountains and rivers in middle school. We expect him to pass on his skills to future generations. According to the history books, no one can inherit, even Jiang Wei doesn't have this ability, but Zhuge Liang once predicted that the next wise man like me would be Liu Bowen.
There are many records in unofficial history that Zhuge Liang teased Liu Bowen many times. He left a stone tablet a long time ago and made a joke. The time and place have been appointed, and Liu Bowen will definitely come to see what he wrote. The most obvious thing is that Liu Bowen wants to dig Zhuge Liang's tomb, but Zhuge Liang predicted it as early as 1000 years ago, and he also carved words like Liu Bowen don't open my tomb, which scared Liu Bowen to dare not have such an idea so far, and he also respected Zhuge Liang as his teacher. There is also a version of this series of anecdotes, saying that Liu Bowen has opened a grave, only the pelvis, and there is no ashes in the pelvis. There is only a yellow letter, which says, "Liu Bowen started the Millennium". How dare Liu Can Bowen open such a mysterious thing and keep it for later reading? Until he retired from the mountains, he couldn't stand the temptation of his heart many times. He opened the envelope and appreciated what he wrote: I expected you to live in seclusion before you dared to read it.
These are legends. Perhaps Zhuge Liang is not so legendary and mysterious, so how can the world predict future generations? But Zhuge Liang wrote the lesson before the horse, and his prediction of the future is still accurate, so it is not necessarily nonsense that he can expect the future of Liu Bowen. Their predictions are all classified as China's four great predictions, which need to be verified by later generations.