What is the origin and theoretical basis of face-reading?

The so-called face fortune-telling refers to the method of judging a person's life fortune by observing his facial features.

The face is the most direct reflection of a person's appearance and appearance, and is a representation of physical health and inner world. Therefore, people have always attached great importance to the face. Fortune-telling by face makes full use of the concept that appearance is determined by the heart to judge a person's personality and future fortune.

Appearance is determined by the heart, which means that whether a person's heart is kind or evil can be reflected in his face. People with a kind personality usually have a kind and merciful face; people with an evil heart usually have a fierce and terrifying face. However, the reverse is not necessarily true. There is a saying that goes "a kind face but an evil heart", which means that a person who looks kind on the outside may have an evil heart. The saying "an evil face but a kind heart" means that the person has an evil-looking face but a very kind heart.

Not everyone can accurately judge whether a person is a good person or a bad person based on his or her face. This requires not only professional face reading skills, but also considerable experience. Although some people with strong insight can roughly judge whether a person is good or bad by looking at his face intuitively, they cannot judge a person entirely by intuition. They still need the help of numerology analysis techniques to improve the accuracy of the judgment results.

It is difficult to determine when fortune-telling based on face reading originated. According to "Da Dai Notes", in the past, Yao selected people based on their appearance, Shun selected people based on their complexion, Yu selected people based on their words, Tang selected people based on their voice, and King Wen selected people based on their character. This is how the five kings of the four dynasties selected people to rule the world. From this we can see that emperors and leaders in ancient times had begun to select talents by observing people's appearance, complexion, language, voice and demeanor. This method of selecting talents can undoubtedly be regarded as the embryo of fortune-telling based on physiognomy in ancient times.

Although Gou Zi of the Warring States Period once said: "Physiognomy was not practiced by people in ancient times, and it is not advocated by gentlemen", scholars have found many records about physiognomy in "Zuo Zhuan" and "Guoyu", and there are also many records in other documents about knowing people by observing their faces, words and deeds, and thus selecting talents. From this we can see that fortune-telling based on facial features had already had a certain degree of influence on society for a long period of time before Gou Zi.

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