During the Tang dynasty, poets often played a divination game in which they picked out poems by choosing page numbers, and later, after divination poems developed, they were common among the literati and in elegant society. Many literary sketches of the Ming and Qing dynasties contain references to divination poems.
唐朝時，詩人們就常常藉著翻頁數抽詩句玩預卜遊戲；後來籤詩發展後，也流行於文人雅士之間，很多明清筆記小說中都曾提到籤詩。