The concept of utilizing tea leaves in order to tell fortunes is a fairly old one, but became extremely popular in fortune telling systems (including those compiling multiple divination methods) in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This particular work is fairly thorough, with about seventy pages just devoted to figures and their meanings- with twenty illustrated examples- and various explanations for the use of divination both generally and solely tea-related. It explicitly recommends the Nelros cup, which is designed especially for fortune telling by the tea leaf method.