What does this rural saying mean: "If your little finger is short, you will lose your job; if you have a long middle finger, you will be a bully". What does it mean? This is a way of saying "fortune telling". This is to "tell fortunes" to people based on their palmistry. For example: If you see a lot of dustpans (circular fingerprints) on your fingers, it means you are a wealthy person. There are also predictions of a person's future fortune based on their birth date and horoscope, etc.
I saw these statements in a book called "Qi Men Dun Jia" very early on. Because my neighbor used to be a fortune teller, and he actually made a fortune by relying on this "ability" while working in the south. It seems that many people believe in this thing, and now he has turned to a physical processing factory. This aroused my curiosity, and during the Spring Festival, I took the time to ask him whether this "doctrine" was true or false! What do you think he told me? He said that for this "skill", you need to have two basic abilities: one is proficiency in memorizing relevant books, and the other is being able to speak well (to facilitate deceiving people). With life experience, Ma Mahuhu can read people's fortunes according to the contents of the book. . If you understand psychology, know a little about looking, hearing, asking, sensing, and listening in traditional Chinese medicine, and have strong microscopic abilities, then you will be a master-level "calculator." When he finally left, he told me: Many people go to see fortune tellers just to gain peace of mind. As for whether it is true or false, you have to verify it yourself.
Did you see it? Wanting to be a great-level "fortune teller" is not that simple, and there are very few in the world. To sum up, you need to have relevant knowledge, good eloquence, psychology, Chinese medicine theory and microbiology. To be honest, it is not that simple for a person to possess this knowledge and master it. A true "fortune teller" is a person who is very knowledgeable, and even ordinary people cannot do it. People with such knowledge would not even bother to be a "fortune teller". To put it bluntly, ordinary fortune tellers use these theories and life experience summaries to understand people's psychology and have a clear understanding of the purpose of your "fortune telling". They will tell you what you want to hear. Understand people's psychology and make judgments based on microscopic factors. For example, Chinese medicine can judge a health problem by looking at a person's complexion and hand color, and fortune tellers will also use it. In fact, these people have learned a little bit about it, and add extravagant words to fool some people into believing it. Their ultimate goal is to obediently let you pay for it and say thank you. If you can really turn stones into gold and save people, you will have more meaningful things to do. Why do you need to be a fortune teller for "entertainment"?
Please understand the main meaning. There is a rural saying: "If your little finger is short, you will lose your job; if you have a long middle finger, you will lose your job." The first sentence of this saying: If your little finger is short, you will lose your job. It means that a person's little finger is short, but it does not clearly indicate how short it is. For example, if the short finger is not as long as one section of the ring finger, then eating and working will be affected, so there is a saying that one will lose one's job; while if the middle finger is long, the little bully is based on a saying learned in horoscope: the tendons in the palm of the hand originate from Middle finger. Then, this person had relatively strong hands and good health when he was a child. He is usually a little bully among children. By extension, he has more resources and better financial luck. In fact, no matter how you say it, people's destiny still depends on themselves to a large extent. All "divine will" is essentially caused by oneself and has little to do with others. As the old saying goes: destiny comes from the heart.
As for the meaning of this old saying, we should treat it as a story, not as truth!