As part of the Taoist tradition, 50 dried stalks of Yarrow flowers are tossed, and the patterns are read as divination. It was said to grow around the grave of Confucius, the founder of the ...

Many of these have existed since ancient times, including dice, coin flipping, the shuffling of playing cards, the use of yarrow stalks (by divination) in the I Ching, and many other techniques.