Chinese Palmistry

Palmistry with the meaning of palm reading or hand prediction is to learn a person’s personalities, fortune and future by analyzing his/her hands. It is also called Chiromancy. In fact, palmistry not only refers to the reading of one’s hand or palm, it also includes the reading of arm, finger and fingernail. By reading one’s palm lines, hand shape and size, finger length and flexibility, fingernail…, we can predict his character traits, health, wealth, wisdom, career, marriage and many more aspects.  

Origin of Palmistry
The palmistry has its roots in Indian, Chinese astrology as well as Roma fortune-telling. From the ancient remaining record of the frescoes in ruins of India and words passed down from Brahmanism, we can find palmistry was very popular in India at that time. In China, palmistry also has a long history. Since the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC) which is about three thousand years ago, it has been prevailed. The first comparatively complete and systematic palmistry work in China appeared in Western Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD) which was written by Xu Fu. In this article, we introduce how the Chinese people read palms in general.

Before reading your palm, you should choose the right hand to read. There are different schools of thought on this matter. Some people think the right for female and left for male. As a matter of fact, both of your hands play great importance in hand reading. But one is dominant and the other is passive. The left hand usually represents what you were born with physically and materially and the right hand represents what you become after grown up. So, the right hand is dominant in palm reading and the left for supplement. 
→ Which Hand to Read for Male and Female in Palmistry, Left or Right?

How to read your palm? It starts from the reading of palm lines. In palmistry, there are mainly three major lines to read which are Life Line, Head Line (also Wisdom Line) and Heart Line (also Love Line). Besides, there are also some minor lines which are also important in palm line reading such as Marriage line, Fate line, Sun line, Children Line, Money Line, Health Line, Travel Line, Bracelet Line, Line of Mars, Ring of Solomon, Ring of Saturn, Girdle of Venus, Ring of Apollo and Ring of Mercury. 

Please find the position of each line from the pictures below and interpretations by clicking the following links. 

→ Moles on Hand
→ 'M' Sign on Palm
→ '川' Palm in Palmistry
→ Bad Signs in Hand
→ Auspicious Signs and Symbols in Palmistry

Mounts, which are bumps of flesh on your palm play a very important role in palm reading.

According to the Chinese palmistry, there are seven mounts for a person with each named after a planet and stands for different characters. Also, the features of the planets are revealed in the corresponding mounts.

Learn to read the seven mounts of the palm (Mount of Jupiter, Saturn, Apollo, Mercury, Luna, Venus, and Mars) and get to know their locations, meanings, and significances by clicking the following links:
→ Palmistry Mounts
→ How to Know If You Are Healthy Through Checking the Palm Mounts? 

Hand Types, Size and Colors:
→ What type of hand do you have?
→ What does the size of your hand say about you?
→ What do your hands color say about your health and destiny?

Finger Palmistry: Fingers' length and shapes have close relationship with a person’s character in palm reading. From them, you could find out what kind of person in personality you are. Fingerprints are also very important to help you understand yourself better.
→ Fingers' Length Meanings and Personality
→ The ring finger and the index finger, which is longer to you?
→ Space between Fingers in Palmistry
→ What does your fingerprint say about you?

Fingernail Reading: Fingernails are the essential parts of human body. In terms of palm reading, a person's fingernails can tell his character, luck and health. The pink, glossy and smooth fingernails which are unlikely to be broken and have moderate thickness and hardness, with the lunula (being found in the five fingernails is the best) accounting for one fifth of the fingernail length, are the signs of good health.
→ Fingernail Shape and Personality
→ Fingernail Lunula Meaning and Health

Kind Notice:
The palm lines are usually not fixed. It changes as you get older or you experience more and more. Whether you could have a good future, a happy marriage, a good job, a perfect health condition... is not solely decided by the palm line. It mostly needs your own effort and wisdom. Keep a positive outlook on life, learn more about how to relate to other people well, and develop a good personality are what you should pay much attention to.