Chinese culture is broad and profound, has a long history, and is all-encompassing, and one of the branches is the colloquialism. From ancient times to the present, the ancestors handed down a lot of sayings, most of these sayings are easy to understand, catchy to read, at the same time concise, hidden, of course, due to the limitations of ancient scientific civilization, the ancients left behind the sayings, some have not been in line with the development of the times, therefore, the treatment of the sayings to take its essence, to get rid of its dross of the objective attitude.
The old ancestor's art of knowing people is "the head is small and fluttering, and the feet are long and bitter", what does it mean? Is it still accurate?
The saying is taken from life, acts on life, and the fields it involves are naturally extremely extensive. Because the Confucian concept of "Mandate of Heaven" is preconceived, the ancients' concept is more in favor of "fate is determined by heaven, and manpower is difficult to change", so the ancients believed in fortune telling and appearance.
This proverb "The head is small and fluttering, and the feet are long in the bitter road", it is obviously a sentence about the face of the face of the person, the face is also known as the face of the art, is the old ancestor of the knowledge of the people, the ancients have studied this deeply, but also left many related classics, such as "Mai Xiang Fa", "Liu Zhuang Xiang Fa", "Ice Jian" and so on.
First, the head is small and fluttering
The meaning of the first half of the proverbial sentence is also very simple, it refers to the head if it grows small, it is a bad face, and the fate of its life, like a lotus, floats uncertainly.
Why did the ancients say that?
First of all, from the appearance point of view, if the head grows small, and the overall proportion of the body is not in harmony, it looks like a lotus canopy, as we all know, the lotus canopy is on the water, blown by the wind, it will flutter, and eventually the lotus will wither and become very ugly.
Secondly, the ancients also believed that human intelligence is related to the size of the skull, and a small head is considered to be relatively low intelligence.
Finally, let's see if this statement of the ancients makes sense. The size of the skull, and the brain capacity, and the level of intelligence is not much correlation, the typical example is the gorilla and humans, the head of the gorilla is several times that of humans, but the intelligence level of the gorilla, the brain capacity is not as good as humans.
Of course, the fact is not absolute, there is a situation, the size of the skull is related to the level of intelligence, that is, congenital underdevelopment, the head in the development, premature closure, resulting in small skull, this situation is in line with the "head small fixed fluttering"
Some people also interpret the "head small top puff" from another angle, which refers to the incongruity of the proportion of the person's head and the body, the overall appearance is not beautiful, and in real life, some people "take people by appearance", the appearance is not good, relatively speaking, will miss a lot of life opportunities, and then lead to fate drifting.
This explanation also has some truth, many so-called facial techniques, in the final analysis, are "taking people by appearance", and the generally accepted appearance of the public is called "good appearance", and vice versa.
Second, the feet are long in the path of suffering
Compared with the first half of the proverb "the head is small and fluttering", the second half of the saying "foot long bitter road" is easier to understand, it involves a kind of scum of ancient feudal society - foot binding.
Foot binding, also known as foot binding, is the oppression and destruction of women in ancient feudal society.
Ancient feudal society, the hierarchy is strict, people are divided into three, six, nine, etc., and the women of the peasant family, need to do farm work, and can not wrap their feet, ancient women, it is difficult to have the opportunity to change their fate, and women at the bottom of the society, many of their fate is sad, so as the saying goes, "feet are long in the bitter road"
Third, the summary:
Today, this saying has largely become unusable, the concept of "mandate of heaven" does not conform to the reality of reality, the fate of people, to a large extent, is in their own hands, in real life, there is no lack of good looks, but the fate of the bad, there is no lack of bad looks, but there is no shortage of people who look bad, but have made great achievements. Instead of believing in looks, believe in yourself.
What do you think about that? Comments are welcome.