Du Qiong

Post-mortem events Qiao Zhou used what he learnt from his exchanges with Du Qiong and came up with his own ideas of divination. He once made a prophecy based on Du Qiong's style:

In 262, when the eunuch Huang Hao was in power in Shu, a big tree in the imperial palace suddenly collapsed. Qiao Zhou became worried but he could not find someone to talk to, so he wrote a 12-character mantra on a pillar which foreshadowed the conquest of Shu by Wei a year later. After the fall of Shu, when people praised Qiao Zhou for making an accurate prediction, he said, "I may have thought about this myself, but I only came up with it after expanding and deriving from the sayings of Du Qiong. I didn't use any special power or ability to predict the future."