Zeng Guofan's formula of knowing people: it is certainly right to teach you to know people.

Zeng Guofan, the author of Zeng Guofan's Letters, was known as the "first minister of ZTE" in the late Qing Dynasty.

As one of the four famous ministers in the late Qing Dynasty, he was honest and upright, brilliant and knowledgeable, and had unique views on many issues.

Among the many reasons why Zeng Guofan was praised by later generations, one is his formula of knowing people. Now, let people's knowledge take us to understand.

Zeng Guofan wrote in his diary on November 13th, the fourth year of Tongzhi: I made a formula because I recalled the methods of asking for help in the past. This formula is the formula of knowing people, and it can also be said that Zeng Guofan summed up physiognomy. Some of its contents obviously go beyond the scope of traditional physiognomy and incorporate some new methods of investigating and observing people. His diary reads like this: "evil is looking at the eyes and nose, and true and false look at the lips." Fame depends on spirit, wealth depends on spirit. Ideas depend on claws, storms depend on tendons. If you want to see the order, it's all in the language. "

The first sentence is "evil is looking at the eyes and nose". Loyalty and betrayal are the two most important aspects of China people's outlook on people. If you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys, what about employing people? Therefore, Zeng Guofan defined the first sentence in the formula of knowing people as "evil eyes and nose". If the nose and eyes are not straight, that is, as the saying goes, the eyes are crooked and the nose is crooked. In Zeng Guofan's view, this person must be evil.

Just like when people watch Beijing Opera, they know whether this person is a traitor or a loyal minister as soon as Facebook appears. Physiologically, a seven-foot body is not as good as a foot head, and a foot head is not as good as an inch eye. Therefore, looking at a person, in addition to the whole, the first thing to look at is whether the nose and eyes are straight. This is also the most basic aspect of looking at people.

The second sentence is "true and false look at the lips." Being a cashier is not too big. Mouth virtue and mouth thief are completely different poles. A square, wide and thick mouth is the most important. There is also "big desires and small desires." Lips: Two lips are a good article. The upper lip can't cover the lower lip, men are more deceptive, and women are guilty. A beak like a bird's beak is the hardest thing to make friends. After fan Li assisted Gou Jian, the king of Yue, he decided to break up with him, that is, the long-necked beak, and he could not share joys and sorrows.

The third sentence is "fame depends on spirit". Whether a person is famous or not, Zeng Guofan said, depends on his spirit. Some people just come out to bring everyone together. Just like when people fall in love, they fall in love at first sight, are awed by each other's temperament, and have a feeling of following.

The fourth sentence is "Wealth depends on spirit". The "spirit" here means vitality. Can a person enjoy wealth forever? Zeng Guofan said that some talents, even if you deliberately cultivate them, may end up drawing water with a sieve because they can't enjoy wealth forever.

We usually say that people live a long life and a short life. This qi is essence. Essence is tangible, while Qi and God are intangible, but such intangible things as Qi and God are supported by essence, regardless of men and women. The essence comes out of the kidney again, so a person has renal failure, and the essence of the person is gone, and the qi and spirit are also scattered.