We are all familiar with the word "heart-to-heart communication", which means that a person's character and inner quality are usually expressed through his face. In ancient China, there was a profession called fortune teller, who predicted people's fortune and future by observing their appearance and date of birth. In this cultural atmosphere, in fact, in addition to physiognomy, even ordinary people have summed up some common methods of recognizing people, such as "blessed with big ears and crooked eyes."
The meaning of this sentence is easy to see, which means that people with big ears are more blessed than ordinary people. They either have money or live a long life, and those who squint or like to squint at people are likely to be wrong in their thoughts and actions. This typical view of judging a book by its cover is obviously wrong for modern people with broad horizons, but many times our unconscious ideas are quietly affecting our judgment.
Many rural elderly still believe that they are blessed with big ears, but when asked to explain why people with big ears are more blessed, they can't come up with convincing reasons. They will answer that this is the experience handed down from the older generation, and then give some typical examples in life. In fact, the formation of the cognition that "big ears are blessed" is completely rooted in the social environment at that time.
Ancient times was a typical small-scale peasant society. For an ordinary small-scale peasant family, land resources are very limited. Limited land has to support a family. If it is a tenant farmer, most of the output should be paid to the landlord as rent tax. When encountering natural disasters and accidents, the family's resilience is very low. Therefore, it can be seen that the living conditions of most people in ancient times were very bad, and with long-term work, farmers were usually bony.
For wealthy families, they have superior material conditions and comfortable daily life, so their physical quality is much better. They are white, fat and healthy. Ears refer to fat ears and earlobes to some extent. Such people are of course either rich or expensive. Coupled with the influence of some historical figures in traditional culture, such as Laozi, the founder of Taoism, and Liu Bei, the "Big Ear Thief", this impression has been deepened.
Say the next sentence. Eyes are evil, eyes are the windows of psychology, and the expression in eyes is an important signal of communication between people. Everyone thinks that people who have done something wrong will have the performance of dodging their eyes, so they think that their eyes are "unhealthy".