Tip: It cannot be said that Princess Saratana is "imitating" these murals of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, but it is certain that these murals of the Chinese Tang Dynasty are somewhat "like" princess Saratana - it is undeniable that the female figures of these murals have the result of the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in that year, and in the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, there is acceptance and tolerance of ancient Persian (Iran) and other cultures. There is a way is that temperament determines appearance, and the female figures of those murals are the looks of Sheng Tang, which also have the shadow of ancient Persia, although the time has passed more than a thousand years, but it still exists.
In the 19th century, the Iranian princess Qajar, known as "Iran's first beautiful woman" because of her beauty and moving, is said that many noble men wanted to marry her, and was proposed by 145 people, but because Qazar repeatedly refused, 13 of them were rejected because of the rejection of the marriage proposal and committed suicide in despair.
We don't know where the data on the 145 people circulated on the Internet came from, or where the basis for the 13 people who committed suicide in despair because they were rejected, but one thing is for sure, if these data are true, then the male aristocrats who proposed marriage are obviously a little vulnerable. In this fragility, people can more or less see the popular fashion of Iranian society at that time with abundance as beauty.
In fact, Princess Qajar is supposed to be Princess Saratana, full name Taj Saratana, born in 1883 and died in 1936. She was the daughter of Nassertin Shah, the fourth monarch of the Qajar dynasty in Iran, who had her at the age of 52. It is said that Nassertin Sha had 84 concubines, all of whom were plump. Some netizens were very "sympathetic" to this, claiming that Nassertin Shatai was "guilty". There is no need for us to follow the netizens, but from the 84 concubines of Nassertin Shah, we can see that the people of Iran at that time were indeed beautiful for their abundance. This inference somehow reminds us of China's Tang Dynasty, an era of abundance and beauty, and even the taj Sarata photographs somewhat resemble tang dynasty female murals.
In the eyes of many people today, most of the images of the goddesses in the Dunhuang murals today are "gods", in fact, they are not, they are very secular, they are all "people". Scholars generally believe that their prototypes are mostly images of young aristocratic women in ancient real life, such as the queen concubines of emperors, princesses, or the wives and daughters of princes and nobles. Their perfect appearance and the vast magic power that benefits all sentient beings are actually the sublimation of the ideal female image in the minds of ancient people.
For example, Duan Wenjie's female provider of the Sheng Tang Dynasty (Mogao Cave No. 130) is a group of Dudu Lady Li Fotu, showing the scene of the ancient aristocratic women's collective worship of the Buddha, this group of donors is real in shape, full of life, the characters are plump and greasy, showing the confident and dignified side of Women in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, among them, there are also some ordinary people, and this picture of the first Tang Dynasty female provider in Cave 431 of the Mogao Caves is the civilian women of the Tang Dynasty, who are simply dressed and full of self-confidence in their abundance, giving people the feeling of being real and natural. Datang's openness, tolerance, self-confidence and strength are actually in the image of this mural, there is a word called "heart wide body fat", originally refers to the open-minded, appearance is serene, and later used to refer to a happy mood, no worries, so people are also fat, from the "Etiquette · University". We are not sure that people in the Tang Dynasty can grow up like this, but we can be sure that this must be a pursuit of people at that time, in addition to aesthetic pursuits and spiritual pursuits. The temperament in the middle is imitated or "like" by others.
It cannot be said that Princess Saratana is "imitating" these murals of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, but it is certain that these murals of the Chinese Tang Dynasty are somewhat "like" to Princess Saratana - it is undeniable that the female figures of these murals have the result of the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in that year, and in the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, there is acceptance and tolerance of ancient Persia (Iran) and other cultures. There is a way is that temperament determines appearance, and the female figures of those murals are the looks of Sheng Tang, which also have the shadow of ancient Persia, although the time has passed more than a thousand years, but it still exists.
The fact is that Princess Saratana can not be like the Tang Dynasty image in the mural, in the Tang Dynasty, we not only appeared in the plump female benchmark Yang Yuhuan, but also out of the only female emperor in Chinese history, and Yang Yuhuan was snatched from her son by Li Longji, Princess Saratana really did not count as much as the love of so many people; compared with Wu Zetian becoming the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Princess Saratana is really still struggling on the road - she is the pioneer of Iranian feminism, she is a staunch feminist. To this end, she even divorced her husband, becoming the first princess in the Iranian royal family to divorce.
So, then again, Princess Sarata is different, and even less like having a beard in some photos – it is said that people at that time thought that boys without beards and teenagers who had just grown beards were the sexiest, so they formed a fashion style, and women followed the example of thick eyebrows and light beards, pretending to be teenagers. Therefore, her beard is all fake, and it is deliberately pasted.
As for the 145 people who proposed to Princess Saratana, 13 of them committed suicide because they were rejected, just as the Internet rumor that Yang Yuhuan weighed 138 pounds, it can only be rumored on the Internet. As for nassertin shah's harem women who liked to wear "ballet clothes", it is said that it was mainly because Nassertin Sha was invited to see a ballet performance in 1873, which immediately fascinated him, and thought that the ballet clothes were beautiful, so he ordered the women to start dressing in this way.
As for why these photographs exist, it is because when Nassertin Sha became the heir, the Queen of the British Empire sent him a camera as a gift, after which he became interested in photography and established the first photography studio dedicated to the Iranian royal family. At the same time, he hired a Russian photographer as the royal photographer of the Iranian royal family, leaving so many and precious photographs for future generations.
Finally, let's look at the late Qing Dynasty in China, which corresponds to the era of Nassertin Shah and Saratana, and it is clear that the beauty of abundance no longer exists. What we want to say is that any aesthetic is the result of the times and should be respected, and if Princess Sarata can travel to the Tang Dynasty in China, she must be very popular there. (Wen | Lusheng)