Qiu Zhijie

‘All Living Things Series I: Typology’ includes maps created using palm lines and facial structures complemented with commentary notes, discussing historical laws using various identities and roles, such as A Fatuous Ruler, An Imperious Official, A Hermit, A Flood Preventer, A Confucian Businessmen, A Sentimental Person and so on.

In ‘All Living Things Series II: Realism’ all characters and events portrayed were real.

‘All Living Things Series III: Ought to Be Like This’, the second stage of this series, speculates the possible palm lines of real historical figures based on their life events.

The historical figures include Zhang Juzheng (Grand Secretary during the Ming dynasty, credited with bringing the dynasty to its peak), Jin Shengtan (an editor, writer, and critic), Li Hongzhang (Qing dynasty general, politician, and diplomat),Yuan Shikai (a senior general of late Qing, subsequent warlord, and self- proclaimed emperor of China), Xuan Tong (the last Qing emperor), Sun Yat-Sen (the first president of the Republic of China), Zhang Xueliang (senior general of the Nationalists and subsequently the People’s Liberation Army), Lin Biao (Chinese army leader at the time of Cultural Revolution), etc.