This story is the first mention in historical records of bamboo divination strips, and historians believe that from the story's date we can infer that the practice of divination by drawing lots must have existed at least as early as the late Tang or Five Dynasties periods at the beginning of the 10th century AD.
這個故事是歷史文獻上第一次提到籤，歷史學家認為，按照時間推算，抽籤一事應該最晚在十世紀初的晚唐五代時期就有了。