Liu Bang once said to Liu Bi, if you have the opposite face, there will be war in the southeast in the next 50 years. Although Liu Bi has followed him to fight in the south and north since he was a child, made great achievements, and is also his second brother's own son, he has not changed his position because of this.
In desperation, he could only say this meaningful sentence to him, and still named him King of Wu, but this did not stop Liu Bi's rebellion fifty years later. Why was this brave and warlike young general, a man full of blood, given the title of anti-thief by Liu Bang?
This may be related to the ancient physiognomy in our country. This skill was very popular in the court, but only those high-ranking officials and nobles could afford to hire a physiognomy master, so how should the poor people use physiognomy?
"Fleshless cheeks are not credible" is a popular saying among the people, but the second half of its classic sentence is little known. Fleshless cheeks are not credible, and if a person has no or very little flesh around their cheeks, they may not be a good friend of all.
But this is only a superficial judgment, should we make a more accurate judgment based on the actual situation?
The backwardness of ancient science and technology limited the economic development of the country, making it difficult to maintain a state of self-sufficiency, and even in times of economic prosperity, it was often seriously affected by natural and man-made disasters.
Due to the lack of advanced ** and rapid recovery capabilities, a disaster often affects many people. For the common people, they themselves are oppressed by the landlords or **, and it is difficult to have enough food reserves even in a good harvest year, let alone face the blow of disaster.
In such an environment, the life of ordinary people is extremely difficult, and they can only rely on wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and the food is both nutrient and coarse, and the lack of sufficient nutrition leads to the emaciation of the cheeks and no meat.
People have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, in order to avoid making friends with poverty and spending their own financial resources, they choose to judge the other party's wealth before making friends, so as to decide whether to associate with them.
Although this kind of behavior seems too arbitrary and ruthless in the eyes of many people, who can really care about the world when it is difficult to protect themselves?
The ancients used the term "bitter and mean" to describe people's appearance, which shows that they believed that people's physiognomy and character are closely linked. Hence the saying that the heart is born. Physiognomy has become a part of life, and this culture has subtly influenced our future generations.
If there is a person with horizontal flesh on the face, they are usually considered to have a fierce appearance, while a person who does not have flesh on the face, but pleats huddled together, is considered difficult to get along with and needs to be kept away.
In ancient society, if people could eat and dress warmly, and have normal fat on their faces, it was already a rare happiness. If you can still eat a lot of meat, then this person must be very rich.
Although some people will stay away from them because of poverty, those who are rich in face will not miss the opportunity to improve their social status. So, why stay away from them?
Although a lot of flesh on the face may be a symbol of wealth or power, it does not mean that the face is full of horizontal flesh. In fact, people with fleshy faces usually give people a cute and innocent feeling, while people with fleshy faces appear fierce and seem to be in a constant state of rage.
This kind of horizontal meat actually represents ** and violence, so it's best to keep your distance. Historically, many murderous criminals have had this look. Although the ancient society was a society of the rule of law, in some hidden places, darkness still existed.
And the possibility of finding hope in the darkness is very little compared to what it is now.
When you meet such a person, it is better to keep your distance. After all, people value life very much, and if you conflict with them, it can lead to unpredictable consequences, and it may even affect the life of your family or even the entire family.
Moreover, most successful people are cunning and ruthless, and they are able to gain a foothold in society, not only because they are powerful, but also because they know how to use various means to give themselves an advantage.
Although these two proverbs, "You can't have flesh on your cheeks, and you can't have a flesh on your face", may have originated in ancient society, there is still some truth in today's society, after all, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors over the years.
With the passage of time, modern society has entered a whole new phase, and although it has been influenced by the old society to a certain extent, it has developed entirely new ideas and systems.
In the past, the aesthetic concept was fat as beauty, but now the mainstream aesthetic is thin as beauty, and thinness to the extreme has become the ideal body pursued by many women. As a result, some people who are born with large cheeks risk bone reduction surgery, while some people with higher physiques also lose weight by strictly controlling their diet and increasing exercise.
Although some people strive for beauty** and may even lose their cheeks as a result, they are not poor compared to these people, and may even have a lot of money.
However, in modern society, this pursuit of beauty does not necessarily work. At the same time, there are also some people who are unable to control their appetite, or indulge in food in order to relieve their mood, or even resort to overeating to solve the problem.
Irregular eating and drinking not only causes great harm to the body, but also may cause obesity, excessive obesity will lead to sagging of the face**, the formation of unsightly horizontal meat. Moderate obesity will add cuteness, but if you are too fat to control it, and there is so much flesh on your face and body that there is nowhere to put it, you will lose this cuteness.
People who can't control their weight have poor self-control, but that doesn't mean they have a ruthless personality and often have nothing to do with it.
Of course, this phrase can still only be applied to the society of that era. After all, societies are all evolving rapidly, and each society has a different picture of prosperity, and the various cultures and slang they adapt to are naturally different.
You can't just apply some slang to today's society, otherwise it will only have the opposite effect. In the end, under the influence of feudal thinking, many emperors and magnates believed in physiognomy very much, and even relied on it for many major decisions.
The folk saying that "the cheeks cannot be crossed without flesh, and the person with the flesh on the face is a wicked person", although it was very practical in the context of that era, there is no scientific basis to support it.
Some people think that if we prematurely characterize a person as a "bad person", then his subconscious mind may develop according to this setting, and eventually if this person does become a "bad person", will this in turn verify the accuracy of physiognomy?
This seems to be a paradox. However, what the ancestors left behind, even if it is not scientifically verified, is derived by them through accumulated life experience, and it is not for nothing.
It's just that today, we need to look at these theories from an objective perspective in light of the actual situation.