Four major misunderstandings of modern physiognomy

Physiognomy is the art of predicting fortune or misfortune, status or early life span based on a person's appearance, facial features, bone structure, complexion, body shape, and palm lines. Physiognomy is an important way to predict a person's fortune. Nowadays, many people also like to use various physiognomy techniques to look at a person's character or destiny. As a branch of predictive science, physiognomy now has a tendency to be turned into entertainment and stereotype, which is really regrettable. Some people even believe that one can know a person's past life, predict his present and future by looking at his face, and even predict his fortune by a pimple on the tip of his nose. This is really destructive and laughable. Below we will sort out the four major misunderstandings that the public currently has about physiognomy, and teach everyone how to treat physiognomy with the correct attitude.

1. Using physiognomy in isolation, not seeking a comprehensive understanding

The factors that influence human destiny summarized by the ancients can be generally summarized as "one is fate, two is luck, three is environment, four is accumulating merit, five is reading, six is ​​reputation, seven is appearance, eight is respecting gods, nine is making friends with noble people, and ten is maintaining health. Eleven is choosing a career and a spouse, and twelve is seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster." In other words, a person's time of birth, fortune, living and growing environment, knowledge, name, occupation including spouse and other factors will affect the direction of a person's fortune. In the rhyme summarized by the ancients, "appearance" is only ranked seventh, which means that there are six other factors that influence human fortune before that.

Therefore, some physiognomists now claim that they can predict a person's life destiny through various physical features, including face and palmistry, etc. This is obviously an isolated way of looking at the problem.

2. Only physiognomy is respected, and the focus is on the trivial.

For some reasons, some people advocate the magic of physiognomy, but deliberately ignore other factors, such as the four pillars, name, yin and yang house mentioned above. In physiognomy, an important criterion for judgment is "virtue comes first, appearance comes second". In other words, the ancients looked at a person's character first, then his appearance.

In other words, if a person has good morals but an ugly appearance, it will not prevent him from becoming a humble gentleman, accomplishing great things, and becoming famous throughout the ages; if a person has a good appearance but bad morals, he will eventually end up infamous for all eternity. Therefore, when judging a person's wealth, fortune and misfortune through physiognomy, one must not only look at his appearance, but also pay more attention to his moral character. If you only respect physiognomy and ignore other predictions, the results will naturally be greatly discounted.

3. Absolutizing physiognomy and lacking development perspective

The classic Chinese literature book "I Ching" talks about the word "Yi" throughout, telling us that everything is constantly changing. Therefore, a person's fortune can be predicted through physiognomy, but it is not absolute and unchanging. Here I would like to remind everyone that when you predict your fortune through physiognomy, you must not be too excited because of good fortune, or be negative and pessimistic because of bad fortune. In fact, people's fortunes will change. For example, if a person has a high nose bridge and a straight, fleshy nose tip, according to physiognomy, it is a sign of wealth and prosperity. However, if your nose is scarred or deformed due to an accident, your good fortune will be affected. Your facial features when you were a child will be very different from your facial features when you are middle-aged. Therefore, even if you can tell from a person's face that he has good fortune, he should not be careless or get carried away. We should also look at the changes in people's fortunes from a developmental perspective, "30% is determined by fate, and 70% depends on human effort."

4. Make physiognomy entertaining and use points to represent the whole

Nowadays, physiognomy tends to become "entertainment to death". Whenever a celebrity gets involved in a scandal, extramarital affair or car accident, someone will come out and interpret the reason through his or her face, and then generalize it. Although it is said that "every person has a different face", people's appearances still have many similarities. For example, moles at the corners of the mouth are not only found in celebrities. For example, peach blossom eyes cannot be the only celebrity with peach blossom eyes, but why don't other people with similar facial features have similar situations? Therefore, it is not appropriate to use a point to represent the whole.

Ziwei Mansion Warm Reminder: The above summarizes the common misunderstandings that people currently have when understanding and applying physiognomy. As a branch of predictive science, physiognomy has its own reasons that have been passed down to this day, but it is really not advisable to exaggerate its role, have a one-sided understanding of it, or use it as a tool to entertain the public.

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