The people involved get an immediate spiritual release, and can face life once again. "This is how Professor Yeh Chi-cheng of Taiwan University's Sociology Department analyzes the way" fate ", plays a" consoling "role in the lives of ordinary Chinese.
當事人在當下即得到心靈的舒緩，而能夠再面對生活」，台大社會系葉啟政教授分析「緣」在中國常民生活中，如何起著「按摩」的作用。