From ancient times to the present, women have been unable to stop on the road of pursuing beauty. Very early, ancient Chinese women have learned to dye their nails with hydrangea flowers, and the verse has clouds: "Ten fingers are delicate and jade shoots are red, and geese line obliquely cross the green clouds." Dai Luo will also be used to draw eyebrows and draw eyes, and there is also a verse recorded: "Give the king a thousand daisy snails, and the green color can be swept away in autumn." ”
Other things about the pursuit of ancient women in jewelry and splendid robes are innumerable. But not all the pursuit of beauty is so beautiful, so poetic. Nowadays, in order to maintain a slim body, some girls do not eat food to stomach problems, only a skeleton appearance, ancient times also have some deformed aesthetics, which now seem to be not only harmful to health, but also not good at all.
Many modern women choose to use a belt in order to keep the waist slim and slender, and it is actually very panicked to wear it, and if it is tied too tightly, there will be a feeling of chest tightness and shortness of breath. But this corset became a treat compared to the medieval European corset. Medieval European women, especially aristocratic women, often used belts made of whale bones and leather to tie their waists to the brim.
This corset is on the one hand to show the female posture, on the other hand, to show the jewelry worn by the upper body of the noble woman, but also to appear more upright, even if the poor women will use the belt, if any woman dares to take off the corset, it will be considered immoral. This custom comes from Queen Josephine of France, who unintentionally became pregnant, but did not dare to let others go, and could only tie up her abdomen fiercely. This kind of dress was particularly beautiful in the eyes of other noble ladies, so it became popular.
But behind such beauty, it is at the cost of health, the ancient European corset is very tightly wrapped, the more high-status women the more they pursue a slender waist, they must have to pull hard with the help of the maid to wear the corset, the famous film "Titanic" has the heroine clutching the railing, wearing the corset with the help of the maid. The price of this is that their abdominal cavity internal structure will be deformed, seriously endangering their health and even leading to death.
If the European corset is still the shackles imposed on them by women, then the small feet of ancient China are the tears of the times. Influenced by Confucianism and feudal society, the status of women in ancient China gradually declined, and in the Song Dynasty, there was a saying of "three from four virtues", and foot binding also became popular from this time.
Foot binding is a woman from a very young age to fold the soles of the feet from the middle, and then with a cloth wrapped feet fixed, until adulthood can not be untied, some even lifelong can not be untied, the reputation is known as "three inches of golden lotus". The purpose of this is only one, that is, to restrict women from going out, so that women can abide by the rule of "no door out of the door".
Fortunately, with the progress of science and the development of the times, the overly deformed waistband of ancient Europe and the foot binding in ancient China have been abolished, but there is a strange aesthetic in ancient Japan, which has been preserved, that is, white face and black teeth. White noodles are actually derived from the customs of the ancient Chinese Tang Dynasty, which coincided with the Heian period of Japan, which was a period of comprehensive introduction of Chinese science and technology culture, and the custom of women applying white powder was passed down.
Japan because it felt that the Tang Dynasty was rich and the best at that time, so the makeup was even more exaggerated to the Chinese Tang Dynasty, and it has been passed down to this day, if there is any big gathering in Japan, the women dressed in traditional costumes will paint their faces white.
As for black teeth, their origin is no longer available, but before the Heian period when white powder was popular, black teeth were already popular among Japanese aristocrats. Although with the development of the times, black teeth have ceased to be the mainstream of Japanese costumes, when performing some geisha performances, the actors still blacken their teeth, two aesthetics that seem strange to us today as a culture, which have been passed down in Japan to this day.
After reading this, Xiaobian can't help but think, what is female beauty? Is it beauty to torture yourself into strange appearances? A netizen once said such a sentence: "The beauty of women lies in the ten thousand styles displayed by a healthy body." Fat is beauty, thin is beauty; long freckles are beautiful, small curly hair is beautiful; tall people are beautiful, short people are also beautiful. As long as you are confident, any woman is beautiful. ”