Do you know why physiognomy focuses on face reading?

When talking about physiognomy, the first thing that usually comes to mind is face reading. So why is physiognomy mainly based on face reading? The spirit of a person is reflected in the eyes, and the bone structure of a person is reflected in the face. Facial features are the most obvious and the most abundant. Today I will explain to you in detail why physiognomy is mainly based on face reading.

Among the schools of physiognomy in ancient China, there was the Study School, also known as the Literati School. Among them, "Ice Mirror" is his representative work. Compared with the Jianghu School, the Jianghu School seems to value form over spirit, the strange over the ordinary, and techniques over clarity. The "Bingjian" takes both spirit and form into consideration, emphasizes the ordinary rather than the unusual, emphasizes theory rather than technique, is good at grasping the whole, pays special attention to judging people by spirit, and pays attention to the combination of dynamic and static. It emphasizes the harmony of balance and symmetry.

As the saying goes, when the grains are shredded to become chaff, the marrow remains, which is what is meant by the spirit. The mountains do not collapse because of the rocks that stabilize them. This is what bones are called. The spirit of the whole body is contained in the eyes, and the bone structure of the whole body is contained in the face. Others also discuss the physical form, but scholars first look at the spirit and bones, and get straight to the point. This is the first priority. To put it in simple vernacular, the essence of rice grains after removing the useless outer shell is the rice, which is also called the spirit. Although the topsoil of mountains is often lost, the mountains will not collapse because they are supported by rocks, which is called the bones!

Here, God refers to a person's inner spiritual state, as opposed to form. You are composed of a person's willpower, attention, vitality, action, temperament and demeanor, and are expressed through external form. This is why physiognomy focuses on the face and eyes.

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