But as well as these calculatory and analytical methods, there were also the very different chenyu--prophetic statements with the character of divine predictions--which were common for a period in ancient times but which have almost disappeared today, and the qianshi or divination poems which for the last thousand years have been looked down on as rather unrefined, but which in their popularity far outstrip any of the other methods of divination.
而除此之外，還有一套迥異於統計歸納、類似神諭的預言，便是在古代曾經風行一時、如今已幾乎絕跡的讖語，以及千年來被認為不登大雅之堂、但普及程度卻居所有算命術之冠的籤詩。