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Does your face secretly reveal your creative flair or a talent for business? While not as popular in the West as palm reading, astrology, or tarot, face reading as a form of fortune telling and personality mapping is just as old.[1] In this article, we’ll cover all of the elements involved in a face reading. Use the elements from each section to build a complex, dynamic understanding of where a person is from, where they’re going, and what they’re like. As a note, this article covers the modern version of Chinese face reading with some Indian elements. There are older, more traditional methods that are a little more esoteric and hard to do.[2]
Things You Should Know
- Face reading was popularized in China and India during the pre-industrial period.
- Face reading is similar to palmistry since it involves interpreting physical features to make judgments about a person’s nature, history, and future.
- While there’s nothing scientific about face reading, it is a fun way to pass the time or test your ability to assess someone’s personality.
Steps
Expert Q&A
Tips
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Face reading, known as “mian xiang” in Chinese, goes back over 2,600 years. Ancient Chinese Emperors even used face readings to recruit advisors and choose who to promote.[13]Thanks
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There’s no scientific foundation in face reading. However, people do actually use facial features to form first impressions of what people are like, so it’s not like the idea behind face reading is too out there.[14]Thanks
Warnings
- Face reading is a type of physiognomy—the art of using someone’s head shape and face to determine what kind of person they’re like. Physiognomy has historically been used to justify some racist and problematic ideas, so don’t use face reading to make any assessments about groups of people.[15]Thanks
References
- ↑ https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-03212-002
- ↑ https://www.fox26houston.com/news/the-ancient-chinese-practice-of-face-reading
- ↑ https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=106529
- ↑ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a47100/what-your-face-shape-says-about-you/
- ↑ https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CA101-facereading.pdf
- ↑ https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CA101-facereading.pdf
- ↑ https://www.rose-rosetree.com/blog/2010/01/05/short-lashes-face-reading-long-lashes
- ↑ https://www.amfengshui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CA101-facereading.pdf
- ↑ https://europeantimes.news/2022/04/physiognomy-how-to-read-a-person-by-the-face/
- ↑ https://medium.com/@winroyale/physiognomy-chin-and-character-ae9b05de79c2
- ↑ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a47013/what-your-lip-shape-says-about-you/
- ↑ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/style-beauty/beauty/a8277930/different-nose-shapes/
- ↑ https://www.fox26houston.com/news/the-ancient-chinese-practice-of-face-reading
- ↑ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-we-read-a-persons-character-from-facial-images/
- ↑ https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscience/