Rural proverb: "Short and thick fingers will keep you busy all your life"! What do you mean by that? Does this make sense?

This sentence means that if a person's fingers are short and look thick, it undoubtedly means that this person can only be busy all his life, that is, he can't stop all his life. In fact, this sentence is completely nonsense in my opinion, because how people's fingers are often related to their own genes, some people are slender, and some people are short and thick, which is normal. People used to think that if the fingers were slender, then this person would.

This explanation is a joke to people today, but it is understandable if we look at the background of the past society, because in the past, there were only a handful of people with power and influence, and most of them were at the bottom of society. Therefore, in order to survive, people at the bottom of these societies need to engage in manual labor, and hands are an important part of their work. If you look at people who often do manual labor on weekdays, you will know that their hands are short and thick.

For those ladies and gentlemen who are pampered, or some scholars, these people don't have to do manual work, so their hands are not burdened, so their palms will be more delicate. In the past, such people often belonged to a few people. In the past, girls also needed to work, so basically working long hours will make their palms rough. Therefore, in the past, people would regard people with short and rough palms as hard work.

However, for modern society, this sentence actually seems completely nonsense to people, because it is unreasonable to easily evaluate a person only by the length of fingers, because the structure of each part of everyone's body is determined by genes, and people actually depend on themselves all their lives. For example, in today's society, as long as you work hard, you can succeed anyway.