Face Reading Past, Present & Future

For a brief introduction, face reading also named as physiognomy. In fact, it has different historical background from different parts in the world. From Greece, there had specialists researched gradually into this specialty. In India, there was also having its own methodology on face reading which relates to astrology. However, physiognomy had been developing from very ancient dynasty to nowadays in China. Thus, there are many referencing books go around widely in the nation. Some of the most welcomed books are ‘MaYi’, ‘DatMo’, ‘LiuZhuang’ and etc.

( 'DatMo' )

In the past, people used to start reading all the reference books in order to navigate into this knowledge. They will memorize it hardly, analysis it thoroughly and verify through daily reading other faces. Until one day, they had cumulated certain level of experiences, they were then proclaiming themselves as Face Reader.

The way they walked in the past is difficult for current application. The first reason is most of the ancient references are prose written in classical literary style and I believe very few people able to understand it at present. Secondly, physiognomy has direct relation with Tradition Chinese Medicine and not all of us study such subject beforehand. Thus, the true definition is tough to comprehend although you can memorize. The third reason is the evolution of human structure from past to present. As those physiognomists take ancient human as their study object and human in modern day is totally pole apart in term of face features, body size, temperament and others. Nevertheless, you may able fluently repeat the lessons from books but you will never perfectly interpret the face in the correct manner. When all these social science development, society structuring and human relationship evolution take place, you will sooner come to realize that both ancient & modern are absolutely unlike. We can’t judge people marriage, fortune, career or achievement by using ancient way as the contradiction is beyond you and my comprehension level.

Ancient DNA suggests that at least some Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin. Neanderthals' pigmentation may even have been as varied as that of modern humans, and that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were likely redheads. (Credit: "Illustration by Knut Finstermeier; Neanderthal reconstruction by the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim")

Nowadays, if we would really like to study physiognomy, we should learn and possess researches from varied perspectives like Tradition Chinese Medicine, Physiology, Psychology, Genetics, Sociology and Modern Science. The combined study of subjects above is now cited as the ‘True Physiognomy’ or ‘Modern Physiognomy’. It is partially taking over the traditional education manner and become the mainstream of oversea physiognomy research subject.

Driving in the trend of science development, physiognomy will receive much more recognition and proven by science in the coming future. For example, the face features and personality can be influenced by the inheritance from ancestor of above 5 generations. Birth in winter may be smarter than baby born in other seasons. Single eyelid people will easily own blissful marriage than double eyelid people and people with longer eyes, longer face, longer ears, longer eyebrows and longer philtrum are going to have vitality and longevity. All these examples are going to be clarified in perfect explanation via genetics. At that moment, I believe physiognomy will be recognized by the mass similar to Tradition Chinese Medicine. Moreover, it will soon gain its status and value in educational field.