《冰鉴》 / Bingjian
《冰鉴》 / Bingjian is the conventional page for the physiognomy/person-reading text discussed in Qinji 135 番外篇3. The source transcript renders the title as 《兵剑》, so this page preserves the uncertainty while using the recognized Bingjian key for the attributed Zeng Guofan person-reading tradition.
In the episode, the book matters less as a verified authored work than as a container for 相人术. The host says it is not necessarily written by 曾国藩, but Zeng’s reputation for judging people made the attribution commercially and culturally useful. The text’s method is presented through exterior signs: spirit, bones, facial features, affect, bearing, and speech.
The wiki records Bingjian as a source-scoped method object, not as proof that physiognomy works. Its value in this ingest is to connect older fate-reading stories around 许负 with a later personnel-evaluation frame: 神骨相法, language-order judgment, and the caution preserved by 以貌定德谬误.