What does the saying mean: "Pockmarked face and green beard cannot be crossed, cheeks are fleshless and bent over"? Does it make sense?
This is a saying related to "knowing people's wisdom". In ancient times, both at home and abroad, people had insufficient knowledge of science and were superstitious about divination and fortune telling. For example, the earliest oracle bone inscriptions were a kind of divination divination. The ancients believed that everything in the world heralds the fate of a country, a family, and a person, ranging from the changes in the stars in the sky to the facial features and limbs of a person. Therefore, people invented physiognomy to predict an individual's fate and bad luck through their birth date, limbs and five senses.
Pockmarked face and green beard are not acceptable
Pockmarked face: refers to the pockmarked face. There is a saying that "pockmarked knocking on the door will lead to a trap", because in ancient times, people who had pockmarked due to medical treatment If the condition is not good, many pits (scars) will be left on the face. People think that a person with a face full of pits has as many evil intentions as there are pits on his face.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, diseases such as pockmarks or nettles are all related to excessive liver fire, and people with strong liver fire often have bad tempers. When we describe people who are angry, they say that when a person is angry, he will be angry. Sometimes, you will lose your mind, so you should always be careful when interacting with people with bad tempers.
Green beard: A man does not have a beard, or has a sparse beard. The ancients regarded beards as a reflection of male beauty. When Guan Gong had a long beard, he was praised as a beautiful man with a well-known beard. Su Dongpo was one of the two Song idol, also known as Su Big Beard. In ancient times (except for special periods), men would grow beards from a young age.
In addition to beauty, not having a beard is also regarded as one of the "Five Unmanly", which is the five unmanly characteristics, also known as Tianhuan. Huan is an eunuch, which is an innate shortcoming. In ancient times, Because the eunuch's body is not intact, his voice is high-pitched and thin, and he cannot grow a beard.
"He who has a heavenly eunuch...the deficiencies of this heaven are that his impulse and responsibility are not strong, his tendons are not developed, there is qi but no blood, and his lips are not prosperous, so the whiskers cannot grow."
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Insufficient qi and blood, in modern terms, means insufficient male hormones. Therefore, men who do not grow beards are considered to lack masculinity.
In physiognomy, people with pockmarked faces and green beards are considered to be selfish, greedy for money, irresponsible, and like to lie. In addition, they are easy to have a bad temper and are not masculine and domineering enough, both in terms of aesthetics and personality. , are not suitable to be friends. Therefore, the ancients used the saying "You can't make friends with pockmarked faces and green beards" as a warning to interact with others.
Two cheeks have no flesh and are bent over
Two cheeks have no flesh: It is easy to understand. There is no flesh on both sides of the cheeks and they are sunken. In layman's terms, they are pointed monkey cheeks.
On the one hand, people with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks give people the external impression of being cunning, bitter, and scheming. On the other hand, meatless cheeks may be due to malnutrition and hunger, and they also give people a sense of poverty and haggard. feeling.
So, in physiognomy, cheeks without flesh represent acrimony, scheming, unsociable, and pessimistic in character. In life, it is also considered to be a life of hard work and poor health. It won't be too good either.
Hunchback: It is a hunchback. Scientifically speaking, hunchback is a deformation of the spine and is a disability. Bad sitting and standing postures can cause hunchback. Mild hunchback can be treated with surgery.
Psychologically speaking, severe hunchback will inevitably be discriminated against and ridiculed in life, which will cause harm to people's psychology and lead to excessive behavior.
Here, hunchback and straightness give people different feelings. For example, if you are high-spirited in life, you must hold your head high, and when a person is frustrated, he may be very tired. Sometimes, I will stoop unconsciously.
In literary works, hunchbacks often appear as treacherous villains, giving people a sense of vulgarity, but there are exceptions, such as Prime Minister Liu Luoguo.