Traditional culture is broad and profound, and folk sayings, as part of traditional culture, are the most valuable experience and knowledge left to us by our ancestors. As the saying goes, "a person cannot be disguised, and the sea is incomparable", the ancestors believe that understanding a person from his appearance is very easy to deviate.
Recognizing people from their appearance is an act of peeping into the leopard in a tube. However, the folk people are not tired of this kind of knowledge, and the ancestors have also summed up a lot of popular sayings for this purpose, such as the folk saying that "men look at the nose and women look at the mouth, and there is little right and wrong in life", as well as "men are afraid of the waist of the water snake, women are afraid of small pouts", "marrying a wife does not marry a high cheekbone, marrying a man does not marry a man with a raised eyebrow" and so on.
In addition, there is also such a folk saying that "the face is thick and thin, and the face is thin and the body is poor." What does this sentence mean?
Literally, the old ancestor believed that if a person's face is relatively rough, then with a relatively thin and weak figure, it is a symbol of relatively blessed. And once a person only looks delicate and delicate in appearance, but the body is rough, it means that the person's life is generally not good.
So, why did the old ancestors have such a statement?
In Xiao Nian's view, there are actually two reasons for such a statement.
First, it is related to the past living environment and life mode of the ancestors.
In ancient times, the vast majority of people mainly lived on manual labor, and farming was the most important and important mode of production of the ancestors. And this sentence "the blessing of the person with a thick face, and the poor person with a thin face" may be related to the living environment of the ancestors.
Generally, people who work hard must be people who often blow and sun. Unlike now, even hard-working people don't have to be outdoors. Therefore, even if those who have a lot of assets in the family and the delicate skin and tender flesh of the body can still suffer from wind and frost every day, then his wealth will surely continue like flowing water, and will not sit on the mountain and eat the sky. Since it has been weathered by wind and frost, it is bound to leave traces on the face. Therefore, there is a saying that it will be "the blessing of a person with a thick face".
And the phrase "thin and thin and poor" means that if a person is of ordinary origin, but he is not hard at work, he stays at home all day and has nothing to do. Then it must be a lifetime of poverty.
Second, this sentence is related to the old ancestor's concept of mandate of heaven.
The so-called concept of mandate of heaven is that the ancients believed that as small as a person's misfortunes, life and death, and as large as a country's misfortunes and deaths, they are all doomed and unchangeable. Ancient rulers used this concept to consolidate their rule.
People believe that their fate is predestined, so they will look for the characteristics of each person to link with fate, and want to explore their own destiny, so as to avoid evil.
As a result, the characteristics of each person will be given different meanings by people. For example, the nose, in people's eyes, is associated with wealth. Even, people also take into account the geographical factors, so there is a saying that "the southern people are heavy in the heavenly court, and the northern people are heavy in the earth pavilion".
However, as mentioned above, some folk sayings often lack rigorous scientific guidance, and are generally the life experience of the ancestors. Therefore, many sayings are more one-sided. We often say that "the fate is in your own hands", no matter what kind of appearance, there will be its own place to shine.