Toddlers subjected to palm-reading assessments in China

StephenW

Toddlers subjected to palm-reading assessments in China       




                BEIJING |         Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:05am EST        
   
(Reuters) - Several kindergartens in a province in northern China are charging parents 1,200 yuan ($190) for a palm-reading test that they claim can predict their toddlers' intelligence and potential, state news agency Xinhua said.

Many parents have flocked to palm readers for the test, used in kindergartens in northern Shanxi province and designed for children above the age of three months, the report said.

According to the company that designed the tests, Shanxi Daomeng Culture Communication Co, the reading of palms helps "determine the children's innate intelligence and potential," Xinhua reported.

In Communist Party-ruled China, a one-child policy has raised the stakes for parents who place great emphasis on educating their children in the expectation that the offspring will support them when they grow old.

Some experts, however, have dismissed the idea of the palm-reading technology.

"This technology remains unaccounted for," Xinhua quote a pediatrics expert as saying.

Fortune-telling, including palm-reading, has deep roots in Chinese tradition, although China's leaders have discouraged and punished devotees of the practice which they brand superstition.

Many people, including government officials, seek geomancy masters' guidance on financial, career and personal matters and many Chinese couples go so far as to plan the timing of a child's birth to fall within auspicious times in the lunar calendar.

(Reporting by Sabrina Mao and Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Ken Wills)

music000

PALM READING  .............

IS THERE ANY SCIENCE BASIS? HOW DO YOU THINK IT STEPHEN?

StephenW

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According to my palm, I should be very famous/notorious. But here I am. So I don't believe in palmistry, anymore. What happens if you have a hand transplant?

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China bans toddler palm-reading assessments       
Tue, Jan 31 2012








                BEIJING |         Wed Feb 1, 2012 2:38am EST        
   
(Reuters) - China has banned kindergartens in a northern province from offering palm-reading tests that the schools had claimed could predict toddlers' intelligence level and potential, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

Although many parents in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province, eagerly brought their children to be tested, some later complained about the high cost and raised questions about the testing method, which test-givers said could reveal the children's aptitude in music, mathematics and languages.

"We have issued a circular to criticize the three kindergartens that offered palm-reading tests for 1,200 yuan ($190) per person," Xinhua quoted Ma Zhaoxing, the local education bureau chief, as saying, adding that the practice had been banned.

Authorities were investigating whether the company that designed the tests, Shanxi Daomeng Culture Communication Co., Ltd., had violated any laws, Xinhua said.

Fortune-telling, including palm-reading, has deep roots in Chinese tradition, although China's leaders have discouraged and punished devotees of the practice which they brand superstition.

(Reporting by Sabrina Mao and Ken Wills,)

music000

I THINK PALM READING IS TOTALLY TRICKS, WHO DO THIS JUST WANT TO GET MONEY FROM YOU.

BUT I HAD A FRIEND WHO COULD DO THIS THAT WE ALL LOVED, BECAUSE HE ONLY TELL WHO IS GOING TO HAVE LUCK ON DATING

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In my dating days, girls/boys used to pretend to know how to read palm and used it as an excuse to hold the hand of their boy/girl friends.   These days, they read something else....

music000

THERE AER FORTUNE TELLER IN AUSTRILIA TOO HUH?

PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE MONEY SHOULD FOLLOW SOME RULES, IN CHINA SOME PEOPLE TEND TO BE CRAZY. WE KNOW IT TAKES TIME AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE THEMSELVES HAVE TO PAY FOR WHAT THEY DO NOT DO.  

IT IS SAD, BUT THIS IS  WHAT WE HAVE HERE, SURVING IS MORE IMPORTANT, ISN'T IT, MOANING OR FIGHTING, LIVE OR DIE..........

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Of course we have fortune tellers here in Oz: tarot card reading, financial advisers, salesmen...They can all tell you how easy to make a fortune.  

Seriously, there are crooks everywhere, some are petty, but the bigger ones wear a "respectable" face, especially in the financial and corporate world.

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this is a people-eat-people world, just the eating way is different, our world like animal world, one of my male friend said so, I would not rather to believe this, but the fact i had been through told me that i was wrong........

why ppl with cruel heard can climb high? everything happen for reason.......... i remember a science study explained this.

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Ah........you do ask the most profound of questions. I wish I know the answers.

Sometime ago, I ask this question on the Internet: What is the purpose of life? Why are we here?  A man replied:"There is no purpose of life. We are just an accident of evolution."

I used to be religious, but now I am not, partly because of the same questions you raised. So, where will evolution take us? The correct answer is of course - it depends on circumstances.

I think I will go and have a cup of coffee.