Xi Shi, Sable Cicada, Zhaojun, Yang Guifei, the four great beauties of ancient times, are likely to be "foodies". In ancient China, there were many women who were exuberant because of their outstanding appearance. For example, in ancient times, "Xi Shi, Zhaojun, Sable Cicada, and Yang Guifei", known as the "Four Beauties", although they were all born beautiful, how did this beauty come from ?
I believe that science cannot give an answer to this question, but if we combine it with our traditional culture, modern science can give the answer.
As the saying goes, "one side feeds the other". We Chinese, and we have always had a homesickness complex. There is also a lot of "people in a certain place are particularly water spirit", from this aspect, it is easy to draw a conclusion: the four beautiful women in ancient times are likely to be "foodies", but they are also foodies, but they also have their own characteristics:
1. Xi Shi:
Xi Shiben was a Huansha woman of the Yue Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period, where was the Yue Kingdom? That is, the area around Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Jiangnan has produced beautiful women since ancient times, which is worthy of the name. As a poor woman with a raccoon yarn, Xi Shi had to raccoon yarn by the creek every day. After labor, it is inevitable that there will be some sweat, thirst or something, the children of the poor are not so exquisite, there is sweat on the face, just wash their faces with stream water, thirsty, hold a few handfuls of stream water and grunt and drink.
The creek where Xi Shi's hometown is located is the same as the taihu lake, which was a place rich in pearls in ancient times. Modern scientific research believes that the water in this stream contains pearls. If you think about it, pearls are natural beauty medicines, Xi Shi grew up drinking water containing pure natural pearls since he was a child, and it is difficult for this face to be a little flawed. As a result, Xi Shi "ate" and became one of the four beauties.
2. Zhaojun:
Zhaojun was originally a palace maid during the hanming emperor's period, and after entering the palace for three years, he did not even see the shadow of the hanming emperor. Later, the Xiongnu courted, and Emperor Hanming thought to himself, there are so many palace women in the harem, they must choose the ugliest one to marry. So he asked the painter to paint all the palace women's appearances, and Zhaojun refused to bribe the painter, so he was painted ugly by the painter. In this way, Yin and Yang were mistakenly selected by the Han Ming Emperor and gave the identity of a princess to marry a foreign land.
However, Zhaojun's beauty did not grow in the palace, but in his hometown of Hubei. It is said that his hometown is next to Xiling Gorge, one of the three gorges of the Yangtze River, and there is a small stream called Xiangxi next to the village. It is the water in this fragrant stream that is crystal clear all year round, turquoise and crystalline, and even has a faint fragrance. Zhaojun grew up drinking such fragrant stream water from childhood, eating rice, vegetables, melons and fruits irrigated by fragrant stream water, and naturally appearing in the water spirit Peugeot when he grew up, so zhaojun, one of the four beauties, is also related to "eating";
3. Mink cicada:
Sable Cicada was a person of the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to what extent was her beauty? Xi Shi has the reputation of "sinking fish", Zhaojun has the beauty of "falling geese", and mink cicadas are also known as "closed moon shy flowers, sinking fish falling geese". Although her life is also tragic and bizarre, she has served several men such as Wang Yun, Dong Zhuo, Lü Bu, etc., but the beauty of the mink cicada is also the origin of the "red face disaster water", to some extent, it also shows that the beauty of the mink cicada is dusty.
Why did the mink cicada look so beautiful in that era of war and chaos? Her hometown is Shaanxi rice fat, rice fat is a place that "rich" beauty, in terms of the name of "rice fat", the grain produced in this place is particularly nutritious, and even faintly emits the color fragrance of "oil". Modern scientific research has confirmed that the soil in this area contains a large amount of zinc and magnesium and other substances, and the crop food produced by the land contains more trace elements.
Mink cicadas eat this nutrient-rich grain vegetable for many years, zinc helps the body develop, and magnesium is good for the cardiovascular nervous system. Therefore, the mink cicada has become the most beautiful of the four beauties, and it is basically "eaten";
4. Yang Guifei:
Yang Guifei was a beautiful woman of the Tang Dynasty, originally the daughter-in-law of Emperor Li Longji of Tang Ming, and later because she was too beautiful, she was accepted as a noble concubine by Emperor Tang Ming. Since then, "six palaces pink and colorless" can be described as thousands of pets gathered in one.
Why did Yang Guifei let Emperor Tang Ming be so addicted? Mainly because she has a secret of "immortality", after entering the palace, she has the tendency to grow older and younger. One of her favorite foods is "lychees". This is too ordinary for us modern people, but for the ancients who grew up and lived in the north, most people have not even heard of it.
And Yang Guifei eats lychees, but also has to eat fresh. So there is a poem "a red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee coming", from Guangdong fast horse to send fresh lychees to the current Xi'an, so as to ensure that Yang Guifei will not be hungry.
Lychee meat looks crystal clear and flawless, Yang Guifei eats lychees all year round, eating fresh lychees. Modern science believes that lychees contain a lot of vitamins and minerals, and indeed have the effect of beauty and beauty. Moreover, Yang Guifei is famous for her "fullness", which shows the rich nutrition of lychees and has a credit to her beauty that cannot be ignored. And the beauty of Yang Guifei is also inseparable from "eating".
Therefore, the reason why Xi Shi Zhaojun Sable Cicada Yang Guifei has a unique appearance, the name of these four beautiful women, is not lucky, and "eating" has a lot to do with it. In particular, Yang Guifei's "eating" is not something that ordinary people can do.