Huang Yu-fu, an instructor at the Yi Jing (Book of Changes) Society and an author of well-known columns about physiognomy (fortune-telling based on people's facial features), points out that apart from "skin-deep beauty," the ancient Chinese also had a set of standards about "fate beauty," which have frequently been employed to select sons-in-law and apprentices.
長期在報上為文談面相的易經學會易數理主講教授黃友輔表示，有別於「色相美」，中國古來有一套「命理美」的標準，是大多數人品評人物、與選婿、選徒的基準。