There was a recent news like this:
The "rebound pipa" in the Dunhuang murals is one of the most famous artistic images in the dance culture of the Tang Dynasty in China, which has spread at home and abroad with the performance of modern songs and dances such as "Silk Road Flower Rain", and has been regarded as a classic by the academic and art circles. But did the Tang Dynasty painters create their origins from the Sheng Tang and Middle Tang Dynasties? There is no exact date and version source answer.
Recently, the "Surging News Ancient Art" article pointed out that according to the recent excavation of the Chang'an Zhenshun Empress (Wu Huifei) tomb stone rafter line, it is pointed out that it originated from the 25th year of the new century (737 AD) male Hu people rebound pipa art modeling, thus correcting the original statement that it was a female maiko.
It can be seen that the "rebound pipa" artistic model from the exotic Hu people was opened and disseminated by the royal court, which is enough to prove that the Tang Dynasty in the 6th to 9th centuries paid great attention to the absorption and development of foreign cultures. (Lanzhou Morning Post, March 19, 2020, B08 "Weekly Notes")
We don't do art, we don't do art research, but we can enjoy the results of its research. In this regard, what we want to say is that when people study Dunhuang murals, it seems that they have never specifically studied the changes in the body of Chinese, and it is only to say that during the Tang Dynasty, it was popular to be fat, so the images of those murals were all fat without exception. Because most of the images on the murals are mainly women, it gives people the feeling that the women of the Tang Dynasty are about to be fat, and as for men, it seems that they are not so clear. Now, the artistic shape of the "rebound pipa" has become a man, which has changed the image of Hu men in people's minds - originally, they can not be very thin, like the image of "Sun Monkey" that people now call it, they can get fat.
This seems to give us such an answer - in the Tang Dynasty, it was not only women who were fat, but also men. Let's take the familiar Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan as examples. Yang Yuhuan's fat, are known, she seems to represent the Tang Dynasty women should be how fat the trend, today's netizens gave her such a standard: height 1.63 meters, weight 138 pounds. An Lushan's weight is in the history books, but few people care. The Old Book of Tang records that he was very fat when he was young, but because some people thought he was fat, in order to please others, he dieted to lose weight, and always dared not eat enough. Later, when he became an official, the official became bigger and had no scruples, "he was fat and strong, his belly was hanging over his knees, and he weighed three hundred and thirty pounds." When walking, the attendant should support him left and right, "lifting his body so that he can move." When riding a horse, the horse can't stand it, and every time you walk for a while, you have to change horses.
Obesity made it difficult for an Lushan belt to go up on his own, and he had to let the personal attendant Li Pig'er use his belly on his head to complete this work. Yao Runeng's "Deeds of An Lushan" said that An Lushan "claimed to have three hundred and fifty pounds", for which Tang Xuanzong laughed that the flesh on his stomach could be dragged to the ground. However, When An Lushan danced the Hu Whirling Dance, he could turn sharply like the wind without any ambiguity.
It is very wordy to say so much, nothing more than to express such a meaning, that is, in the open Tang Dynasty, men have also been fat, An Lushan should not be an isolated case. Or, more directly, men and women were fat at the time, but why they were fat is a question worth studying today. There is a basic fact that as far as fat and thin are concerned, no matter whether it is placed in any era, the change should be small, that is, without Yang Yuhuan and An Lushan of the Tang Dynasty, people can still study this problem.
For example, some of our current boys are in love with girls in Russia and some countries in Central Asia, and before marriage, girls are beautiful and in good shape, but after marriage, they suddenly become fat, which makes the boys somewhat unacceptable. Why do you get fat as soon as you get married, the fact is that people will get fat as soon as they get married, but this kind of fattening is clearly faster. In this regard, some people give the explanation that the diet structure is different, girls before marriage because of the diet of meat there is a large amount of energy accumulation inside the body, as soon as they get married; there is a girl who lived in a cold place before, after marriage, she moved to Chinese mainland, because the climate warmed, so she was fat. None of these explanations seem to stand up, but it is a fact that I am fat.
In this fact, it is very happy that the children born by this combination are fat and moderate, very beautiful, and also have mixed-race intelligence. As if to tell people such a problem: one generation of women after marriage to become fat, means the next generation of beauty and beauty. Why? We can't say it clearly, but what can be said is that in the Song Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese not only returned to its original state, but also became more beautiful - the Tang Dynasty, with the influx of a large number of foreign populations, made Chinese fat, but in the Song Dynasty, this obesity seemed to disappear, and Chinese not only returned to its original thinness, but also, compared with the Han Dynasty, it seemed to be more spiritual and better-looking.
Such a fat and thin transformation not only shows the change of Chinese body, but also seems to reflect the factors of culture, spirit, etc., but this proposition is really too big, we are here to throw bricks and jade - what do you think, the change of Chinese body over thousands of years? Welcome to discuss. This is also our history, but also our lives. Thank you! Image source: The Paper.
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