As the saying goes, 'Those with a thick face and a thin body are blessed, and those with a thin face and a thick body will be poor for a lifetime'? Ancestor's Knowledge

Traditional culture is extensive and profound. As a part of traditional culture, folk proverbs are the most precious experience and knowledge left to us by our ancestors. As the saying goes, people can't look good, and sea water can't measure. Ancestors believed that it is easy to be biased to know a person from his appearance.

Looking at people from the outside is an act of peeping at a leopard. However, the folks are not tired of this art of knowing people. Their ancestors summed up many popular proverbs for this. For example, there is a folk saying that men look at their noses, women look at their mouths, and they are rich and young all their lives. Men are afraid of snake waists, women are afraid of small pout, marrying a wife but not marrying high cheekbones, marrying a man and not marrying even eyebrows, etc.

In addition, there is such a folk proverb about knowing people: a person with a thick face and a thin body is a blessing, and a person with a thin face and a thick body will be poor for a lifetime. What exactly does this sentence mean?

Literally, ancestors believed that if a person's face looked rougher, matching a relatively weaker figure was a sign of luckier. Once a person just looks delicate and delicate, but the body is rough, it shows that the person's life is generally not very good.

So, why did the ancestors have such a statement?

In my opinion, there are two reasons for this statement .

The reason why the ancestors said this is first and foremost determined by the living environment at that time. Because we are in the era of farming, most of the people have to go to the fields to farm if they want to have a good life. When working, they must go through a long period of wind and rain. Every day, they face the loess in the ground, and their skin is devastated by the wind and frost. The ancients did not have the concept of sun protection, so the skin on the face naturally becomes rough, and sunburn is inevitable. Because of the long-term farming and hard work, the figure has also become slender. Therefore, the ancestors believed that such hard-working people would definitely gain something. After all, there is pay for the reward.

And that sentence is poor in appearance and thick in body, that is to say, if a person is of ordinary background, but does not work hard, stays at home all day long and has nothing to do. Then, it must be a lifetime of poverty.

Second, this sentence is related to the ancestral view of destiny.

The so-called view of destiny is that the ancients believed that the misfortunes and fortunes of a small person, life and death, and the misfortunes and fortunes of a country are all doomed and cannot be changed. Ancient rulers used this concept to consolidate their position.

People think that their destiny is set by heaven, so they will find the characteristics of each person to connect with their destiny, and they want to explore their own destiny, so as to seek good luck and avoid evil.

Therefore, each person's characteristics are assigned different meanings. For example, the nose is seen as being associated with wealth. Even, people also take into account the geographical factors, so there is a saying that people in the south focus on the heaven, and people in the north focus on the court.

But as mentioned earlier, some folk proverbs often lack strict scientific guidance, and are generally the life experience of ancestors. So many proverbs are one-sided. We often say that fate is in our own hands, no matter what kind of appearance, there will be its own glorious place.