Ice guide: Skull head can also see a person's character and destiny.

The Jiangnan Yilin mentioned before, Zeng Guofan's "Ice Guide" wrote at the beginning: "The mountain does not collapse, the stone is the town, and the bone is also called." This means that the mountain will not collapse because it is supported by stones. The same is true of human bones, which are as important to human body as reinforced concrete to houses.

When it comes to the five senses, I believe many people can casually name a bunch of nouns, such as the sky, the Fiona Fang in the ground, the nose hanging like gall, the lips like red ink, the nose hanging like hell, and the strange bones. These words often appear in cross talk, storytelling, novels or TV.

About "physiognomy", such as the strange bone mentioned above, it is actually an abstract word, which is an overall evaluation of the human skeleton shelf, probably saying that someone's skeleton shelf looks strange. Many times it is even an adjective that has nothing to do with face.

Everyone remembers a classic scene in Stephen Chow's movie Kung Fu, in which an old beggar with messy hair solemnly said to the innocent children passing by, "Young man, I think you are a strange-looking martial arts wizard. Maintaining world peace depends on you. I have a Tathagata as my secretary, and I will sell it to you for ten yuan. "

It's actually hard to look at each other, especially those strange bones on the top of your head. In ancient books, if you think that a person has vision in his bones, he often has extraordinary fame. According to China's illustrations, people have some strange bones on their foreheads, heads and sides, which are actually some special bone protrusions. In modern fortune telling, unless there are obvious advantages, the bones at the top of the skull are not the focus of fortune telling. Besides, if you look at your women's faces, you won't lift their thick hair to look at their bones.

However, facial bones, such as forehead, cheekbones, bridge of the nose, etc. , plays a very important role, Jiangnan Yilin will talk about it slowly in the future.

History of phrenology: A forest in the south of the Yangtze River first looks at the history of phrenology. Many people in China may not know much about phrenology. In fact, phrenology is a theory of brain functional orientation, which was founded by French anatomists Gar and Putzheim at the beginning of19th century. The main point of this theory is simple: phrenology believes that people's temperament and ability, such as music and painting, correspond to different parts of the brain, and the skull is closely related to different areas of the brain.

Needless to say, let's take a look at the picture below. Phronomics divides the human skull into many different small regions, starting with 35 regions and then up to 42 regions. Different regions correspond to different personalities and abilities, for example, a certain region corresponds to "passion", "ambition" and "carefulness". They draw various conclusions according to the degree and characteristics of uplift or depression in these areas. The most important thing in phrenology is whether a certain area is uplifted or not, and it is considered that uplift is good, so phrenology is called "reading uplift".

In France, Britain and the United States in the19th century, osteopathy was once very popular, and various societies, colleges and magazines related to it appeared, which gradually disappeared until the beginning of the 20th century.

To what extent were some people in Europe and America fascinated by phrenology at that time? Some companies even specialize in producing the best skulls in line with phrenology. The hood is divided into various areas, and these areas are convex. Let the newborn children wear this hood and let the immature skulls grow according to the shape of the hood, thinking that this will give them various advantages in personality and ability. I don't know how many innocent children were killed by this hood at that time.

Of course, modern people can refute this theory with a little common sense. Skull, to put it bluntly, is a helmet made of human bones, which mainly protects the brain. It is not a highly complex organ like the brain. How do different areas correspond to different functions?

Speaking of the skull of phrenology, Jiangnan Yilin has one thing to remind everyone. Some parents, especially in rural areas, sleep on hard wooden beds after their children are born and don't know how to use soft pillows for their children. As a result, the back of their child's head is very flat, like a knife, and it feels steep after a long time. This kind of shape, not to mention the good or bad of bones, is not very good-looking from the shape alone. It is necessary for parents to flatten the back of the head, which should be * * *.

In short, western phrenology has no scientific reason, which has long been denied by medical and psychological theories and research. However, we should understand that although the skull is not divided into so many areas as phrenology, the overall shape of the skull still has an effect on the face. Generally speaking, China's physiognomy advocates prosperity, roundness and depth, and dislikes depression, pointedness and thinness.