两汉时期之相人术与汉代社会

汉代相人术对先秦既有继承,又育发展,其中两项最重要的发展则是相面术中流年部位与带普遍性的相手纹方法的出现。汉以前尚无相工。汉代相人者上至皇帝、下至囚徒,遍布各阶层,而被相者多为位尊者,这种现象的产生有一定的社会原因。汉代相人术比较流行,对汉代社会发生了种种影响,对中华民族的思维方式和文化心理结构也产生了比一般民俗更为深远的影响。

Telling sb.'s Fortune by Observing His Body during the Two Han Dynasties and Han Dynasties' society

From the angle of history of folklore, the author opens out that the method of telling sb.'s every - year - fortune by observing his face and the method of reading ordinary palm lines should appear during Han Dynasties, and researches there was no xiang" gong before Han Dynasty; discusses the fact that the people who told sb. 's fortune by observing his body were from emperor to prisoner, and most of the people's status who were told their fortunes were noble, and why it was so: argu ments the specialized books of telling sb. 's fortune by observing his body appeared no later than Han Dynasty, and the meaning of those books in the thought history; demonstrates various influences of telling sb. 's fortune by reading his body on the socie ty; discusses the popularization degree of telling sb. 's fortune by observing his body at that time, and analyses the psychological cause why sages had peculiar bodies. At last he demonstrates the thought traits of the Chinese nation through the practice of telling sb. 's fortune by observing his body.