Name: フォーチュンクッキーの秘密の歴史｜無修正版チャイナ (The Secret History of the Fortune Cookie | China Uncensored)
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To know the future, you must understand the past.

If you've been to any Chinese restaurant in the United States,

A lovely little saying, some lucky numbers,

Yes, fortune cookies are a beloved Chinese restaurant tradition all around the world.

But why can't you find fortune cookies in China?

In fact, the ancient art of fortune cookies was nearly lost forever.

So today, we bring you a China Uncensored exclusive investigation

into the secret history of the fortune cookie.

The origins of the fortune cookie stretch back to the roots of recorded Chinese history--the

In a grand ceremony to determine the fortune of the nation for the coming year,

the emperor would toss oracle bones into a bronze "ding" vessel that would then be lit.

A mystic would interpret the cracks that formed on the bones as predictions for the future.

That's why, during the Cultural Revolution,

when Mao Zedong began destroying the Four Olds

--a systematic campaign to wipe out traditional culture--

"That was the official reason Mao gave for the

'Smash Confucius, Smash the Cookie' campaign.

But there were actually much more sinister reasons behind it."

Dr. Iris Wolsey is one of the world's foremost experts on fortune cookies.

People started putting their own spirit tablets with fortunes and charms written on them

in steamed rice cakes to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Whoever ended up with the cake with the tablet would have good fortune for the coming year."

"At a certain point, they switched to paper."

fortune cookies were more than just feudal superstition.

the making of fortune cookies became part of esoteric rituals,

dominated by secretive clans with occult practices

rooted in geomancy, fengshui, and fortune telling based on the Bagua and I-ching.

One of these clans had a charismatic leader

who convinced his followers that he had the will of Heaven,

That led to the Le Zaohua, or Happy Good Luck, Uprising of 1629,

and later the 1633 Chang Fu, or Everlasting Fortune, Rebellion.

but they greatly weakened the Ming Dynasty.

And they were partly responsible for the dynasty's collapse and conquest by the Manchus in 1644.

Mao Zedong was afraid the fortune cookie could threaten his rule.

At least that's the accepted scholarly interpretation.

But it turns out, there might be more to the story...

That's not why Mao turned against fortune cookies at all."

I went to Manhattan's Chinatown to interview Jing Fong.

He's a seventh generation fortune cookie master from the southern Har Gow school.

His was one of only a handful of fortune cookie families

that left China before the Cultural Revolution,

and have carried on the tradition overseas.

"I've been making fortune cookies for nearly 40 years."

"My mother put a fortune cookie in my hand before I learned to walk."

His fortune cookie factory now supplies nearly one quarter of the Chinese restaurants in

"Mao was a secret believer in the power of Fortune Cookies.

when the Communists were fighting the Nationalists,

Mao had his troops use fortune cookies to deliver secret messages between Revolutionary cells.

He believed it was the fortune cookies that helped him win the war."

But according to these memoirs written by Mao's doctor,

Mao later became obsessed with fortune cookies.

Especially after several predictions proved eerily correct.

'When metal is depleted, the earth will become weak.'

That's based on the Five Elements theory.

The five elements theory is a profound skill that Chinese people use to predict the future.

Mao was using a skill that he didn't completely grasp."

Mao thought this prediction meant that unless he increased steel production,

the “earth,” or China, would be weak and vulnerable to foreign invasion.

he drove the entire population into steel production.

Even in rural areas, entire forests were leveled just to fuel the furnaces.

They couldn't get the temperatures high enough and so the metal was brittle and useless.

In fact, that was one of the contributing factors to the Great Famine.

The Earth element correlates to the stomach."

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