What is the reason why our ancestors said "no meat on your cheeks"?

Ancient human beings worshipped nature, but at the same time suffered from natural disasters, and their medical methods were backward. At that time, people's life expectancy was generally short. Under such circumstances, the ancients wrote many books about astronomy according to the world outlook; According to the observation of people's faces, we have studied the means of looking at faces in rivers and lakes, and produced many proverbs about faces. For example, two cheeks are inseparable. On the surface, the phrase "you can't cross your cheeks without meat" means that a person's cheeks are not worth making friends with without meat.

We can probably imagine that if a person has no meat on his cheeks, his first impression will not be very good, and he looks cunning, giving people a feeling that he is not suitable for deep friendship, and his first reaction is alienation. In the eyes of the ancients, a person's cheek has no meat and looks a bit like a fox. When we think of foxes, our first reaction is cunning. Perhaps this stereotype made the ancients think that people with such faces would have such characteristics and were unwilling to make friends with such people. In that case, the ancients also made the mistake of judging people by their appearances.

In ancient times, the face of a woman with fleshless cheeks and bony bones was usually called Foucault's face. In ancient times, due to economic underdevelopment and perennial wars, sometimes there was a lack of food. In this context, the times have imposed a symbol of family prosperity on women. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, a woman with a round pearl jade was beautiful. Perhaps the ancients thought that a woman with a beautiful pearl could bring revival and prosperity to her family, which is what we often call Wangfuxiang. But this is just an unwarranted responsibility imposed on women by the times and men.

In ancient times, women's status was low. Many times, when a man is obviously incompetent, he blames a woman and thinks that a woman is holding her husband's family back, so his husband's family can't develop. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, people's aesthetics are mostly round and beautiful, and people who are naturally skinny, sharp-tongued and monkey-faced are not liked. But the times are progressing and the aesthetics are changing. Now people are healthy and have beautiful right-angled shoulders. However, there are also some extreme aesthetics. For example, in order to pursue a good figure, some women lose weight for beauty, face-lifting at all costs, and go on a diet to get the so-called "beauty", which is based on the premise of damaging their health. From a rational point of view, it is not desirable.

However, the sentence "two cheeks without meat can't cross" is a negative teaching material left by history, which proves once again that judging people by their appearance is not only an unavoidable problem for us, but also an unavoidable problem for the ancients. After all, human beings are visual animals. Who doesn't love beautiful things? Perhaps it is reasonable to say that "two cheeks have no meat to hand over" to some extent. But we also need to know that it takes a long time to look at people's hearts, and it is not the best policy to judge people by their appearances.