曾国藩 / Zeng Guofan
曾国藩 / Zeng Guofan enters this wiki through Qinji 135 番外篇3 as the reputational center for a traditional person-reading branch. The episode says a physiognomy text circulated under his name, but also notes that the attribution is doubtful; what matters for the source is that Zeng already had a strong reputation for observing and judging people.
The source uses the Qing history image of Zeng to make that reputation concrete: he is described as a stern, heavy presence who could stare silently at visitors, then record and judge their quality after they left. The episode also uses diary maxims attributed to his person-reading practice, moving from facial cues such as eyes, nose, and lips toward language order as evidence of thought order.
This page keeps Zeng’s role source-scoped. In this ingest he is not mainly a late-Qing military or political biography subject; he is a bridge from legendary physiognomy and 《冰鉴》 attribution into 神骨相法 and older personnel-judgment ideas such as 文王官人法.