The Comprehensive Guide to Chinese Face Reading
Chinese face reading is the art of reading people’s facial features to determine their personality, fortune, fate, health, and character. You can tell if a person is sexually strong, lucky in business/marriage, or will be taken care of in old age by looking at their face.
Your face is the representation of who you are from inside. Your mind manifests your face, just as your face manifests your mind. Trees bear fruits, and fruits also bear trees.
If you have good moral principles and do many good deeds, your face will resemble your inner beauty. This is based on the Law of Correspondence.
Therefore, if you want to change your face to be more attractive, you need to change who you are from within. This is proven to work because I’ve personally gone through my “facial transformation” by merely changing my character.
You really don’t need cosmetic/plastic surgery to make you look more charming. You just need to be more genuine, helpful, and kind to have the desirable face you want to have.
Some common applications of face reading are:
- Relationship: To see whether a person is fertile, sexually strong, loyal to their partner, lucky in marriage, able to raise good children, etc.
- Business: To know if a person is fair, disciplined, hard-working, smart, lucky in business, etc.
- Personality: To determine a person’s inner constitution, attitude, character, personality traits, etc.
- Life: To see whether a person’s life is generally lucky or unlucky.
- Career: To understand which career opportunities/prospects are best suited for the person.
- Fate: To recognize where a person’s good fortune is.
1. Face Shapes
In Chinese face reading, your face shape is like the frame of the picture rather than the picture itself.
The face shape may be quite difficult to interpret because most people’s faces are a combination of shapes. Your face shape can also be changed easily just by gaining or losing weight.
Therefore, when we determine the shape of the face, we need to look at the bone structure of the face for the best results.
There are 8 common face shapes:
When you look at a person’s face, you should draw a horizontal line in the middle and look at both the left and right sides. The left side of the face represents the past while the right side of the face indicates the future. They could also mean the private face and public face respectively.
If you see these 2 sides of the face are balanced, then the person is genuine with their feelings.
However, if you see an asymmetrical face shape, such as the left is more distorted than the right, then the person is not happy from the inside while showing a happy face to the public.
2. Foreheads
The forehead is regarded as the Heaven Palace and the Parents House in Chinese face reading. It is also called the Career House, indicating your career fortune, prospects, and luck in general.
With the forehead, we can determine topics related to childhood, inheritance from parents, intelligence, perception, and the thinking process.
It’s important to know parental inheritance is not only limited to material things, but it is also related to ability, skill, and manner.
The ideal forehead is a forehead that is equally domed and rounded while protruding a little. This kind of forehead belongs to people who are highly intelligent, analytical, and imaginative. People who have this forehead are likely to be successful in the future in areas that require high mental processing.
If you see many horizontal lines on the forehead, it’s not a bad thing at all. Instead, if these horizontal lines are also deep lines, they represent knowledge, wisdom, and profound thinking.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Forehead
3. Hairlines
The hairlines have similar meanings to the foreheads.
That is, the hairline also shows what happens in childhood and adolescence. It corresponds to the maternal influence rather than both father’s and mother’s influence as in the case of the forehead.
The more even your hairline is, the less trauma you had in childhood.
A rounded hairline belongs to people who are kind-hearted and love donating to charity while a square hairline is a sign of reliability and sticking to the principles.
Messy hairlines belong to people who have faced many difficulties at an early age.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Hairline
4. Ears
The ears are correlated to the water element in Chinese alchemy, indicating risk tolerance, longevity, fertility, sexuality, the strength of the reproductive system, the basis of physical health, and the amount of kidney Jing.
According to professor Lillian Bridges, the founder of the Lotus Institute, the bigger the ears, the more risky a person is.
Hence, a big and large ear often belongs to gamblers/entrepreneurs who have a great tolerance for risks, especially with money.
The smaller the ears, the more cautious the person is about taking risks. People with small ears are often very well-mannered and prefer to live safely.
The ears are one of the most important features of the face. You can even tell the entire life story of a person only by looking at their ears because each location is associated with a specific age.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Ears
5. Earlobes
The earlobes represent longevity, health, wealth, and wisdom. The lobes also reveal a person’s ability to hold on to investment and good health in later years.
The longer, thicker, and larger the earlobes, the more wisdom, health, and security in old age. People with large earlobes tend to plan far ahead for the future. Many prominent investors have long and large earlobes, which indicates their ability to grow and win in the long term. These people can delay pleasures to attain bigger payoffs in the future.
In contrast, people with small earlobes are more present-oriented. If they want something, they will want it NOW. Therefore, these people don’t usually plan ahead but are interested in instant gratification. Patience is the main lesson for people with small earlobes throughout life.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Earlobes
6. Eyebrows
The more prominent the eyebrows, the higher the tolerance to alcohol a person has. In fact, people with weak eyebrows often can’t handle alcohol well at all!
Generally, the eyebrows indicate the overall constitution and ability to express anger, hopes, and goals of an individual. As it corresponds to the alcohol tolerance level, the eyebrows show our current state of health and potential sickness as well.
Large, bushy, and thick eyebrows belong to people who have a great amount of liver Qi. These people often find it easy to express themselves emotionally. However, they are prone to being too aggressive and stubborn.
People with small and thin eyebrows are usually shy and passive. They seem to lack the needed energy to carry out their work, so they often do not fish what they start.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Eyebrows
7. Brow Bones
Brow bones are the bone structure under the eyebrows. This is the feature that some people have while others don’t.
In face reading, brow bones indicate issues with control, dominance, leadership ability, and authority.
If someone has prominent brow bones, they will not like to take orders and will automatically resist authority. People with strong brow bones are very independent and ambitious. They are blessed with great leadership ability.
Weak brow bones don’t necessarily mean weak. Instead, weak brow bones indicate someone who is easy-going and diplomatic. They don’t want to stand out from the crowd, yet they are very good at dealing with people.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Brow Bones.
8. Eyes
You may have heard this saying: “The eyes are the windows to the soul”.
By looking at the eyes, you can determine a person’s mind and heart nature. One thing very special about the eyes is they reflect the lightness of our spirit, which is called Shen.
When you see someone who has sparkling and large eyes, these eyes correspond to the openness of the heart and the quickness of the mind. They are receptive and can take in emotional information from others.
In contrast, small eyes show someone who likes to use their head instead of their heart. People with small eyes are cautious and rational.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Eyes
9. Cheeks
The cheeks are an indication of your self-confidence level, ability to enjoy life, and function of the immune system.
If you have rosy, chubby, and full cheeks, you have a promise of a good and happy life ahead. You are also confident, sensual, and love having fun.
In contrast, if someone has bony or hollowed cheeks, this is an inauspicious sign as these cheeks can indicate bad luck, stress, and suffering.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Cheeks
10. Cheekbones
Cheekbones are the areas under the cheeks. Therefore, when we read someone’s cheekbones, we also need to determine the quality of their cheeks.
In Chinese face reading, the cheekbones give you basic knowledge about a person’s pride and authority. Large and prominent cheekbones correlate with strong metal energy. Thus, people with large cheekbones are ambitious, independent, and strong-willed.
When someone has a small cheekbone, they often value peace more than confrontation. They want everyone to get along and seek cooperation in most situations.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Cheekbones
11. Nose
The nose is called the “reservoir of wealth” in Chinese face reading. Among the 12 houses of the face, it is located in the Wealth House. By looking at the nose, we can determine a person’s ability to spend or make money, luck in acquiring wealth, sexual power, and leadership ability.
As a general rule, the bigger the nose or nostrils, the greater the ability to make/spend money. The big, large, and protruding nose often corresponds to many positive qualities, such as strong character and drive.
This is the reason why you see many bankers or rich people usually have big noses due to their ability to generate massive wealth.
Small noses belong to people who are less driven and ambitious. These people want to blend in rather than stand out from the crowd. Thus, people with small noses tend to be easygoing and prefer a comfortable life.
A person with a straight nose is devoted, disciplined, and fair. This person is endowed with an elegant and majestic appearance. They are also good at making money and acquiring material possessions.
In Chinese medicine, you can even look at the nose tip to determine someone’s state of health.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Nose
12. Philtrum
Philtrum is the groove lying in between the nose and the mouth. It is a great sign of sexual power, fertility, and creative ability.
When you see a deep, wide, and well-defined philtrum in a person’s face, you are looking at someone who is very creative and sexually powerful. Women with this kind of philtrum can raise a large number of children.
If the philtrum is narrowed and not clear, this often means poor health. They may be good with money, but are not lucky when it comes to children.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Philtrum
13. Mouth
As the mouth is what we use for ingesting food, it symbolizes our appetite level, such as the desire to eat good food. Therefore, the larger the mouth, the bigger the appetite.
Besides appetite, the mouth also shows a person’s intellect, sensuality, ability to give, and health.
Large mouths belong to people who love to give even to strangers that they barely know. In contrast, small mouths do not mean that the person is stingy, but it means there are some conditions related to their giving. They give because others deserve their gifts, not to strangers like people with big mouths.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Mouth
14. Lips
The lips should be interpreted together with the mouth. They are related to your emotional nature, sensuality, and earthly pleasures.
Someone with a bigger upper lip than the lower lip has a strong yearning for emotional experience. They are romantic and fun-loving.
Big, full, and thick lips are a sign of an attractive woman, but it is usually a bad sign for a man. In general, the bigger the lips, the more emotionally expressive a person is. Hence, thin lips are generally regarded as a better sign for men because they indicate their ability to control emotions.
The lips also correspond to our level of sensuality. This is the reason why you see many women using lipsticks to thicken their lips so that they look charming and sexually attractive.
By looking at someone’s lips, we can even tell whether a person will be an excellent playmate in bed or not.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Lips
15. Chin
In Chinese face reading, the chin indicates willpower and character. In other words, the stronger the chin, the stronger the will. People with long, large, and broad chins are very powerful. They can live a long life while being capable of doing many great works.
As the chin is a masculine sign, we will often see large chins in men rather than women.
Small chins often belong to people who demonstrate feminine qualities, such as gentleness and easygoingness. They are cooperative and can be great friends due to their excellent teamwork skills.
This lower part of the face is especially helpful in understanding a person’s courage and willingness to fight.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Chin
16. Jaw
As the jaw is located close to the chin, these 2 features should be read together when we interpret people’s faces.
The jaws represent determination, willpower, and anger.
When someone has a strong, large, and broad jaw, this is a sign of a great fighting attitude. This person will fight for whatever they believe in, doesn’t matter if they are right or wrong. You will see this kind of jaws very common in the faces of soldiers, fighters, and disciplined weightlifters.
On the other hand, small and narrow jaws belong to great mediators who tend to avoid conflict. They can be easily influenced by others. They may face trouble with emotional upheaval and low confidence as well.
Read more: The Meaning of Your Jaw.
References:
- Face Reading in Chinese Medicine – Lillian Bridges (My top 1 recommendation!)
- The Art and Science of Face Reading: Face Morphology in the Western Spiritual Tradition – Jennifer Lamonica
- Face Reading: Keys to Instant Character Analysis – Chi Kuei
- Read the Face: Face Reading for Success in Your Career, Relationships, and Health – Eric Standop and Elisa Petrini
- The Face Reader: Discover Anyone’s Personality, Compatibility, Talents, and Challenges Through Face Reading – Patrician McCarthy
- Face Reading Plain & Simple: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need – Jonathan Dee
