Mayi Shenxiang · The Mayi Art of Physiognomy

Ear Forms

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On the Ears Ears govern the great brain and communicate with heart and chest. They are the heart's officers and the kidneys' outward indicators. Vigorous kidney qi gives clarity and acute hearing; deficient kidney qi dimness and turbidity. Thus sound and nature go together. Thick and firm, high and long ears are all signs of longevity. Distinct rims and contours mean intelligence and understanding. Hanging lobes facing the mouth mean wealth and longevity; ears close to the flesh abundant wealth. Fine hairs within mean longevity; dark moles mean ranked sons and intelligence. Broad Ear Gates mean wisdom; red, moist ears high office; white reputation; scarlet-black poverty. Thin ears facing forward mean buying up all fields and gardens in this wording. Reversed, slanting ears mean dwelling without house or home. Unequal size on left and right is followed by a damaged adverse/negative/harm phrase. Bright moistness means fame spreading far. Thick, coarse, scorched-black ears mean poverty and foolish dullness. Firmness like ice means not weeping into old age. Length and height mean stipend and position; thickness and roundness food and clothing. Generally, ranked people have ranked eyes without necessarily having ranked ears; lowly people may have ranked ears without ranked eyes. A skilled physiognomist may first examine color and then form. Formulas: Ears as if lifted bring a name spread among people. Both ears hanging to the shoulders mean rank beyond telling. Ears whiter than the face mean worldwide fame. Game-piece ears establish a household and career. Black ears with flying flowers mean leaving ancestors and ruining the home. Paper-thin ears mean early death without doubt. Peach-red rims and contours mean the most perceptive nature. Rabbit-like ears mean poverty without recourse. Mouse ears mean poverty, low station and early death. Reversed ears without rims reduce ancestral property to dust. Hanging lobes mean food and clothing in surplus. Thin ears without roots mean certain death in youth. Broad Ear Gates mean intelligence and distinction. Formed bones on the ears mean insufficient lifespan. Round bones below the ears mean no spare money yet. Ears above the eyes suit receiving an instructor's stipend. Two cun above the brows mean never being poor. High ear rims and contours also mean peace and happiness. Knife rings on the ears mean high office of the fifth grade. Ear Gates hanging thick mean lasting wealth and rank. Ear Gates like sinews mean a poor household without a master. Fine ear hairs mean longevity, wealth and rank. Beast-like ears mean being settled and stopping of oneself. Large, broad Ear Gates mean intelligence and ample wealth. Thin, small Ear Gates mean short life and little food. Verse: Distinct rims and contours, with hanging lobes, Most suit lifelong benevolence and duty. Wood Star obtaining its ground attracts literary talent; Fame naturally reaches the imperial capital. Reversed ears without affection are most unfavorable; Arrow feathers further mean few provisions. A narrow, small Life Gate permits no longevity; Blue-green-black coarse skin goes away to another region. Ears close to the head, rims and contours formed, With a little red radiance mean wealth and glory. Exposed, reversed, thin and dry are signs of poverty; Long hairs issuing from the ears give a thousand springs of life. Ears whiter than the face give a high name; Unseen from the front, they mean rank and glory. Visible from the front, they often mean poverty; Marks upon the ears mean they do not hear. Hanging lobes below, flesh-colored and radiant, Further facing the mouth, bring flourishing wealth and glory. Wolf ears pointed above mean a heart fond of killing; Pointed below and without color are unfavorable. Another saying: Rims and contours completing each other bring examination success and name. Fine hairs within increase lifespan. Ear lobes facing the mouth bring wealth, rank and long years. Black color upon the ears invites disputes and trouble. Text note: Buying up fields in the opening is retained even though another ear heading later predicts selling them all. The formed-bone lifespan rule and round-bone money rule retain their explicit unfavorable wording. The instructor-stipend term, knife rings, several phrases and marks are not expanded with an invented diagram or medical diagnosis. Historical claims throughout are attributed to the text. Metal Ears The heading predicts wealth and rank, with an old-wife phrase and punitive harm to sons. Verse: One cun above the brows, the Heavenly Rim small; Ears whiter than the face, with hanging lobes. Wealth, rank and fame at court and in the countryside; Only the supplied attracting-sons phrase is disliked, followed by solitude in the final years. Note: The sons wording in the verse differs from the heading's explicit punitive harm. Water Ears The heading predicts wealth and rank, with fame spreading through the seas and realm. Verse: Water ears thick and round, higher than the brows; Further close to the face, with hanging lobes. Hard, firm, red and moist, as if standing prominently; A wealthy, ranked man at the reigning court. Wood Ears The heading predicts poverty, without grain kept overnight. Verse: Flying rims, exposed bones, the Six Kin lacking affection; There is further fear that wealth cannot suffice for the household. If the facial regions are good, life passes in ordinary toil; Otherwise poverty and suffering end in the source's flower-or-spending wording. Note: The final graph is irregular. Fire Ears The heading predicts solitary longevity and a place in the ranks at court. Verse: High ears, pointed rims and reversed inner contours; Even hanging lobes are not enough for praise. If Mountain Root and Sleeping Silkworm respond, The supplied final-or-Wei-year phrase promises no disasters and more longevity. Note: The last line's year graph is retained without inventing a calendar date. Earth Ears The heading predicts wealth and rank, with ease in old age. Verse: Earth ears firm and thick, large and full; Moist red and the supplied settled-color wording are fitting. Long-continuing wealth and rank, the Six Kin complete; Crane-white hair and a child's face in a time of assisting the ruler. Tiger Ears The heading predicts treachery, with imposing authority that should not be challenged. Verse: Small ears, rims and contours deficient and broken; Unseen from the front, with a seal graph here, they become unusual. Those with these ears are often called treacherous and dangerous; They can also have rank and imposing bearing. Pig Ears The heading predicts poverty and low station, ruin and an adverse death. Verse: Behind the ears, fullness arrives; lobes hang to the shoulders. Above the brows, moist and radiant, colors bright and fresh. A round head, moist forehead, an unusual form; The Nine-and-Five sovereign's honor ends in a damaged surpassing/esteeming-worthies phrase. Note: The poor, adverse heading and imperial verse are both retained. Their apparent displacement is not silently repaired by exchanging records. Great-Rank Ears Hanging to the Shoulders The heading predicts great rank and calls the bearer the one person under Heaven. Verse: Without contour or rim, ears hanging thick; Forward or backward, or with hanging lobes. Even wealth and rank—what help can they provide? Later life has many adverse disasters and harms. Note: This verse is adverse despite its imperial heading. Both this record and the preceding conflicting record remain in their supplied order. Mouse Ears The heading predicts ruin, poverty, cold and defeat. Verse: Mouse ears cross and fly, their roots reversed and lost; Even if above the eyes, they are not called worthy. Mouse theft and dog stealing never change; Final-year ruin ends in the source's death/prison/firmness phrase. Note: The final phrase is irregular; its punitive details are not invented. Game-Piece Ears The heading predicts wealth and rank, with founding and developing a household estate. Verse: Round ears favor rims and contours supporting one another; Starting empty-handed, one builds a home and resources become complete. An ordinary ancestral estate is developed through one's own work; In middle age wealth and rank resemble Tao Zhu's. Arrow-Feather Ears The heading predicts poverty, with abundance first and hardship afterward. Verse: The supplied Earth-joint region is more than one cun above the brows; Arrow feathers grow below, without hanging lobes. Ancestral estates and family fields may be vast; Ultimately they are ruined, and one wanders east and west. Note: Earth-joint follows the supplied wording rather than a reconstructed ear region. Low, Reversed Ears The heading predicts early death, depletion, dispersal and the dark realm of the dead. Verse: Low ears, reversed inner contours and open rims; In youth an isolated form and loss of wealth. Whatever household resources exist are ultimately consumed; The final other-person clause fears death without anyone to bury the dead. Note: The final line's subject is uncertain in this copy. Ears Close to the Head The heading predicts fortune and longevity, with blessings and stipend arriving together. Verse: Both ears close to the head, rims and contours firm; Pressing brows and eyes, the person is called a high worthy. The Six Kin and brothers all glorious and ranked; A good name flows through a hundred generations, with natural joy. Note: Pressing brows and eyes is retained here despite unfavorable low-ear rules elsewhere. The source writes a direction graph in the good-name phrase. Ears Facing the Wind The heading's name is written Po-Shi-Ji-Feng in this copy. It predicts total ruin and death away from home. Verse: Both ears face forward and meet the wind; Household wealth and ancestral resources are entirely ruined. Blessings enjoyed in youth, defeat in middle age; The final years endure poverty, suffering and solitary hardship. Note: The irregular name is disclosed rather than silently restored from another edition. Thin Ears Without Blessings The heading predicts a life of rushing about outside, in an irregular phrase. Verse: Rims and contours present, the ears described as thick; Further soft and weak, with hanging lobes. Those with these ears must be poor and suffering; Final-year adversity and ruin leave affairs hesitant and troubled. Note: Thin in the heading and thick in the verse are both retained. Opening-Flower Ears The heading predicts poverty and low station, with all fields and gardens sold. Verse: Ear rims open like flowers, pointed and thin; Even hard bones are of no use. Vast resources are ultimately all destroyed; Final-year poverty and suffering are worse than before.

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