Classification of bone phase

Nine kinds of bones that have a great relationship with human destiny.

The photo album "The Story in the Moon Cave" says: The so-called nine bones are cheekbones, post horse bones, general bones, sun horn bones, moon horn bones, dragon palace bones, seven rhinoceros bones, eight ministers bones and Kowloon horn.

Xiang Xue thinks this nine-boned man is your photograph. The biography of Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty refers to Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu: seven feet three inches long, with beautiful eyes, big mouth, long eyes and sun horns. Sun angle is one of the nine bones.

To determine the nine bones and distinguish people's wealth, we must also refer to people's nine lines. The so-called nine lines, that is, people's spirit, soul, appearance, color, movement, freedom, foresight, wisdom, morality and other nine spiritual temperament characteristics. Nine bones and nine rows are combined to form 90%. Everything is bright 10% brilliant, 20% generous, 30% steady, 40% bright, 50% peaceful, 60% loose, 70% sincere, 80% intelligent and 90% virtuous. The number of scores also represents the level of life and wealth. Generally speaking, 98% of ministers are honors, 56% are middle ministers, 34% are good people, and 12% are slight honors. Some are not white, have no bones, and sink forever. In physiognomy, this method of determining a person's life level by matching nine bones and nine lines is called nine successes.

Based on this idea, Gail divided the skull surface into 27 parts in 1796, and marked the psychological characteristics of each part. This is the origin of osteopathy. Co-researcher Spitzham (1776 ~1832) made further research, improved its system, and divided the skull into 35 parts. However, the Austrian government believes that this theory implies that human fate is determined by nature, so it is forbidden to publicize this theory in Austria in 1802. Therefore, the two traveled all over Europe to publicize their theories. Later, Gail settled in Paris, while Spitzem lobbied in Britain and the United States. George Qom in Edinburgh, England, O·S· Fowler in America and others supported and further developed this theory, so osteopathy became popular all over the world.

However, in many places, there have been people who claim to be osteopetrologists but know little about osteopetrology, and swindlers who try to make money from it. They travel around, attracting men, women and children, fiddling with skull specimens, giving speeches and fooling the audience. In addition, they also give skulls to people who want to see each other, draw personality maps, calculate occupational adaptability, male and female characters, and have good or bad luck in life. Osteography is very popular, especially from 1840 to 1850, reaching its peak. However, since then, the interest of the masses has dropped sharply, and the study of osteopathy has gradually declined.