April
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/ 2017
面相 (‘miàn xiàng’, or less accurately as ‘mien shiang’) is a type of Chinese divination that relies on the observation of a person’s facial features. Apart from divining an individual’s future, practitioners and advocates of Mian Xiang believe that this practice may be used to determine a person’s character. Due to this, it has been widely used in the past, from parents seeking brides for their sons, to the selection of suitable candidates for Imperial positions. Furthermore, Mian Xiang has been employed in traditional Chinese medicine as a diagnostic tool. Mian Xiang is still used by the Chinese today, and has also become popular in the West over the last few decades. The First to Use Mian Xiang The word
