In today's society, everyone likes thin girls, and almost every slightly fat girl will clamor that she is too fat to lose weight. There are also many girls who say: "This aesthetic of thin beauty is too harsh on me!" I want to cross over to the Tang Dynasty! Travel back in time to the era when fat was beautiful! ”
As we all know, The famous beauty of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Yuhuan, has a plump body and a rich posture. The emperor's favorite women are all chubby, so isn't the folk custom also the most popular among rounded girls? You can eat as much as you want, and you can get fat while lying down, and you can still be a big beauty, aren't you happy? But is that really the case? Was the Tang Dynasty really fat for beauty?
The authentic aesthetic of the Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty's saying that "fat is beautiful" does not have a representative figure that is actually determined.
The aesthetics of the early Tang Dynasty inherited the aesthetics of the previous dynasty, preferring women to be slender and thin. The specific details can be seen in the famous painting "Step Map", and the maids clustered around Tang Taizong's side are all thin and graceful.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the national strength was prosperous, the people were rich in food and clothing, and naturally they would be plump. But is it really "fat is beautiful"? I'm afraid not. According to the literature, when Tang Xuanzong chose a woman for his son Li Heng, who was still the crown prince, he asked Gao Lishi to "choose five slender white women in the world, who will be given to the prince." It can be seen that the main aesthetic of the Tang Xuanzong period was a slender and slender woman, tall and tall, and fair-skinned.
There are also many Tang poems that use words such as "窈窕" and "thin waist" to describe the beautiful female figure, such as Li He's "will enter the wine" wrote "Hao tooth song, thin waist dance." Bai Juyi's "Ten Ancient Poems" describes that "the two bearded women are like jade." "They all describe beautiful and wonderful women with thin waists and thin waists." Guan Xiu, a very famous poet monk at the end of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem "White Snow Song": "There is no nobility for people, and it is not necessary to learn chicken and dog fat." This also shows that people during the Tang Dynasty did not use obesity as the standard for beauty.
However, according to many existing Paintings and Pottery Figurines of the Tang Dynasty, most of the women's faces are round and plump, and even Yang Guifei, who is most favored by the emperor, is round and fat. If you don't like a woman with a plump body, then why is the rounded Yang Yuhuan favored?
In fact, this is another of their aesthetic styles. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the country was prosperous, the people ate and dressed warmly, and people were easily rounded. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the Emperors of the Tang Dynasty favored fat women. Moreover, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the country was prosperous and powerful, the political civilization was highly developed, and it was a country with a very open society.
According to the historical records, there were many foreigners in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and there were many foreign friends in Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. People from different countries bring cultures of different countries, and the collision and integration between different cultures produce a more civilized and splendid Tang Dynasty culture, and the Tang people's vision is more open, they are no longer stuck to tradition, warm and unrestrained.
The plump posture makes women look warm and generous, they no longer only love thin women, physical fitness and plump body has also become a kind of beauty, which reflects the extreme openness and tolerance of society at that time, and also reflects a cultural concept of that era. But abundance doesn't mean it's obesity. The figure of the woman in the painting and the clay figurines does not appear bloated and fat, although rounded, it is not fat and clumsy.
How heavy is Yang Yuhuan?
Yang Yuhuan, a famous beauty in the Tang Dynasty, grew up in this open era. The idiom "ring fat swallow thin" describes the beauty of "ring fat". But is Yang Yuhuan really fat? According to historical records, Yang Yuhuan is about one meter 65 tall, but her weight is only in the middle of 120 to 135 kilograms, which is not slim, but it is definitely not obese. This can only be regarded as slightly fat in today's society.
And yang Yuhuan was favored by her plump posture? No, she was favored by the emperor because of her moving dance. Yang Yuhuan has been practicing dance since she was a child, and usually there must be no limb movement, even if there is meat on his body, some of it is also muscle, so it is impossible for her to be too obese.
The poet Du Fu described Yang Guifei in "Li Ren Xing": "The state is thick and far from the true, and the texture is delicate and even. In this way, Yang Guifei is not bloated, and her skin is delicate, her appearance is wonderful, and her temperament is exquisite, and the emperor loves not her muscular body, but her graceful dance posture and gorgeous temperament.
Open and inclusive beauty
The aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty favored the posture of a thin waist, and there were also those who appreciated the rich and plump, and the two did not contradict each other. Different aesthetic standards are inclusive, changing the previous aesthetic standard of "thinness for beauty" and expanding the scope of beauty. Such aesthetic standards reflected the open and inclusive vision and graceful social atmosphere of the Tang people at that time.
This open beauty is not only expressed in the aesthetic of the woman's figure, but also in the daily dress of the woman.
Tang Dynasty women's costumes are rich, bold, luxurious, graceful and atmospheric, their clothing styles tend to be exposed and open from the previous shade and introverted, from makeup modification from the previous simple to complex and diverse, and the overall makeup style tends to be luxurious and gorgeous from the previous simple and simple.
All kinds of changes reflect the difference between the Tang Dynasty and other dynasties, and the open beauty of the Tang Dynasty is also in stark contrast to the aesthetics of other dynasties. This also reflects that with the migration of time, social changes, people's aesthetic views will also change due to their influence. The change of aesthetic standards not only reflects the aesthetic vision of society, but also reflects the development concept of the country in this era.
conclusion
The idea that Yang Yuhuan is a fat beauty is too one-sided. The concept of beauty comes not only from appearance, but also from demeanor and temperament. Looking around you, you will find that people with temperament, no matter what she looks like, will make people have a feeling that she is very beautiful, and you can lock on to the girl with the most special temperament at a glance in the crowd.
Girls! Stop chasing bone beauty too much! Beauty shouldn't just lie on the surface! In today's open and developed society, we can only focus on the surface, but more should pay attention to the heart, after all, "there are poems and books in the belly", to enhance their connotation, exercise their temperament, and become a real beauty.