"The heart of love beauty, everyone has it", for girls beauty is a kind of self-brought, for the degree of beauty is higher than that of boys, whether it is dressed everywhere to reflect the form of beauty. Especially in ancient times, people have had a different understanding of whether they have been, and they are unique.
In the face of The Great Poet Bai Juyi in China's ancient history, he wrote a poem "Time Makeup" on the makeup of ancient women of official women, describing the popular makeup of women at that time. In this poem, Bai Juyi is a little helpless about the fashion makeup of women in Yuan and Nian, because they paint their lips black, their eyebrows painted figure-eight, and their faces are painted with reddish-brown makeup powder, a sad look. It has become the so-called contemporary makeup, if placed in today, it will certainly be said to be "non-mainstream", but in ancient times it is not surprising.
In addition to the "time makeup" in Bai Juyi's poem, the Tang Dynasty also had these common "net red makeup".
Elegant floral makeup
Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" said: "The flowers are not collected, and the green and jade are scratched." "When Yang Guifei died, the flowers on her head fell to the ground but no one cleaned up, and the scene was very bleak. HuaDian is a flower-shaped ornament on the face of ancient Han women, attached to women's sideburns, eyebrows or cheeks, also known as flowers and face flowers. According to research, it has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was very popular in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many materials for making flowers, and the patterns of the flowers were various shapes. The flower is attached to the forehead, so that the woman adds a bit of grace and luxury.
Radiant forehead yellow makeup
Forehead yellow, also known as crow yellow, paste yellow, flower yellow, it is a kind of beauty makeup in ancient China, it is the yellow pigment painted or pasted on the forehead. The production of yellow makeup is closely related to Buddhism. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism was brought into China and developed rapidly, so women imitated golden Buddha statues and dyed their foreheads yellow, which gradually became a fashionable makeup. In the Tang Dynasty, whether it was a lady or a commoner woman, everyone took the yellow forehead as a symbol of beauty.
Feminine and moving wine smudge makeup
Alcohol smudge makeup is also known as drunken makeup. Ancient women in the makeup, first use white powder, and then rouge in the palm of the hand to mix well, rub on the cheeks, thick is called wine smudge makeup, light called peach blossom makeup.
In Bai Juyi's "Peony Fang", he vividly depicts the wine smudge makeup: "Yingye is amorous and shy, and lying in the bush is powerless to contain drunken makeup." "The wine smudge makes the woman a little drunk, and her cheeks are like red plums in the snow, which is charming and moving."
The reason why the well-known "Guifei Drunk" has been prosperous for a long time, in addition to the love between Emperor Tang Ming and Yang Guifei, the delicate state of "wine smudge makeup" presented by Guifei when she was drunk is also a place that people talk about!
Oblique red makeup similar to scars
Oblique red is a special kind of face decoration in ancient times. This kind of makeup is more peculiar, it is generally painted in the area between the temple and the corner of the eye, on the cheeks are painted two oblique red marks, like blood marks, and later some people painted it as the state of the morning sun, so it is also called Xiaoxia makeup. Oblique red makeup was popular for a long time in the Tang Dynasty. In the poem "Some Teachings" by Yuan Shu, it is said: "Mo draws long eyebrows and draws short eyebrows, and oblique red wounds are vertical Mo wounds hanging." "Oblique red makeup may be an imitation of scars.
5. Sweet and cute face makeup
Face makeup is applied to the dimples of the cheeks, also known as "smiling", "jing ornament", "makeup". It is shaped like a bean, also like a peach apricot, like a crescent moon. It is generally vermilion, or yellow or ink. This kind of makeup already existed in the Han Dynasty, there is "drunken round double-sided Jing" in Yuan Shu poems, and Wen Tingjun's "Flower Collection" has "Baopao Someone Red Double Jing", which shows that a pair of beautiful smiling jing leaves a sweet and lovely impression in people's hearts.
The makeup culture of the Tang Dynasty is also a valuable cultural heritage, and now it seems that it still has high aesthetic value and academic value. Modern makeup is also gradually evolved from ancient times, and ancient makeup has a high reference value, such as modern smoky makeup and Bai Juyi's "contemporary makeup" have common characteristics. The "net red makeup" of the Tang Dynasty also had considerable academic value. For example, we can use it to understand the current state of social development at that time.