Strictly speaking, the root of Chinese civilization is tribal civilization, and according to modern people, it is peasant culture. Among them, proverbs are the essence of rural culture.
Proverbs, as a cultural carrier to record the living conditions and ideology of rural people, are still shining today. If we deeply understand its connotation, we will find that proverbs have a great connection with life.
"Marry a wife without cheekbones, marry a man without eyebrows" is one of the classic quotations that have a lot to do with knowing people, knowing faces and marriage customs.
First, marry a wife without high cheekbones.
From a medical point of view, zygomatic bone is one of the facial skulls, and the height of zygomatic bone will directly affect a person's facial contour.
According to modern aesthetics, men or women with high cheekbones often give people a resolute and three-dimensional aesthetic feeling.
Judging from the ancient people's understanding of people, or the five senses, high cheekbones are not necessarily a good thing. Because according to the concept of the ancients, women with particularly high cheekbones are often "punishment masters."
In ancient times, it was absolutely a terrible thing for women with low status and status. In this way, they will be excluded from society, and most women with high cheekbones will either stay unmarried for life or be miserable.
From the perspective of paleography, women with high cheekbones have a strong desire for power and control. In ancient times, how could a woman with the idea of dominating the world be favored by men?
In particular, the word "cheekbones" is homophonic with "power". The high cheekbones indicate a strong desire for power, so any man who marries such a woman will inevitably have the phenomenon that women are strong and men are weak.
Marrying such a woman will not only lead a depressed life, but also be in danger of being "husband". So in the ancient man's idea, you could never marry a woman with high cheekbones.
Of course, according to the concept of modern people, this is actually just a superstition. Although we can see the inner world from a person's face, this kind of thing is not absolute.
In a free and equal modern society, women with high cheekbones have different aesthetic feelings, so they will become the objects pursued by men.
Second, marry Han, not even eyebrows.
There is a saying called "marry Han, marry Han, dress and eat". In ancient society, women's status was relatively low, and they could not appear in public at all, so they could only be attached to men's lives.
Therefore, it is a woman's greatest wish to marry a man who is capable and loves her wife. But there is one kind of man who must not marry, and that is a man with eyebrows.
This kind of eyebrows can also be called crossed eyebrows or single eyebrows. To put it bluntly, eyebrows are linked together, which is also commonly known as "one-word eyebrows".
In Biography of Li He, Li Shangyin once ridiculed Li He's appearance: "He is thin and long, with long eyebrows and long claws". To put it bluntly, "Shi Gui" refers to Li with eyebrows.
There is a cloud in Huangdi Neijing: "The eyebrow is the official of Zhongzheng and decides what to do; Eyebrows and brave seedlings are the center of decision; Eyebrows are the basis of action, and supervisors are diligent and lazy; Eyebrows are persistent stars, in charge of personality and temper. " .
Refers to the style or shape of eyebrows, which can actually show a person's health and reflect his fate.
On the face, men with eyebrows are generally narrow-minded; Or mentally incomplete, confused; Always reckless and unstable in doing things.
This kind of man can't become a "climate" all his life. The most important thing is that he has a tendency to violence. So ancient women would never marry a man with eyebrows.
No matter what a person looks like, he is actually given by his mother's parents, so whether he is ugly or beautiful, there is no need to be proud or inferior.
However, according to the ancient people's ability to recognize people, "born from the heart" is a problem that everyone should pay attention to. The ancients believed that women with high cheekbones and men with "eyebrows" could not be mate selection targets.
There are many women with high cheekbones or men with eyebrows in real life, but they are not as arrogant or distorted as physiognomy says.
In fact, this is the new era and new atmosphere. In the final analysis, the so-called physiognomy is only pseudoscience, and a person's personality or behavior has a lot to do with the acquired environment.
conclusion
Because the ancients lived in a relatively closed society, coupled with the ideological constraints of feudal rulers and people's limited understanding of themselves, some prejudices were produced.
No matter how beautiful and ugly a person is, as long as he is capable and kind-hearted, I believe he will find the most suitable marriage partner.