Introduction ~

This is a "face reading dictionary." It describes what the cumulative human wisdom has discerned are the meanings of various aspects of long-standing facial structures, in terms of their psychological and destiny implications.|n||n|The ancient Chinese system for doing this is called Siang Mien (pronounced SEE-ahng MEE-un), which means investigating spirit. The contents of this dictionary include the utilizable contents of Siang Mien, plus the best of the West and the author's own experiences over the last 40 years of study of this subject. The references at the back of this dictionary are some of the sources of data for this resource. There were many other very old books which are not listed.

However, it is crucial to be aware that while this dictionary contains information that extends back thousands of years, and that is based upon millions of people's lives, the fact of the matter is that it is only a relatively small part of the process that has been aptly titled "Wholistic Facial Analysis" (Rosetree, 1988).

For the reality is that on the physical level, the real information residing in the face is composed of the CONFIGURATION of the facial features, and most of the information lies in the fine-grained characteristics of the face and their inter-relationships, not in the large facial structures per se, It is also true, though, that the large structural features do provide their own information. And it to these structures that this dictionary will be devoted.