Life goes on and on and on! In today's era of universal love of fitness and weight loss, exercise has also become one of the symbols of fashion. Although most people have a supportive attitude towards exercise and weight loss, it is extremely testing to participate in this activity. After all, the love of food, drink and pleasure is the instinct of the vast majority of people, and escaping sweating and exercise is the norm. However, what many people don't know is that weight loss is a long-standing activity in China.
Because as early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, weight loss has been popular in the Chu country. Speaking of this nationwide weight loss trend, we have to start from the monarch of the Chu Kingdom, King Chu Ling. King of Chu Ling: 芈 surname, Xiong clan, initial name Wei, was the second son of king of Chu Gong, after killing his nephew Chu Ao Ao, he established himself, that is, after the throne, he changed his name to Qian, and in 541 BC, he established himself as the monarch of the State of Chu. King Chu Ling was a famous "personality" king in the Spring and Autumn Period, and one of his "personalities" was "good thin waist". But who let people have such capital?
According to the "Mozi and Love" record: In the past, the Chu Ling King was a good soldier with a thin waist, so the subjects of the Spirit King all took a meal as a festival, threatened and then brought, and then raised the wall. Compared with the period of the year, the dynasty has a black color. The "scholar" here refers to the minister of the court. That is to say, the "good thin waist" of the King of Chu is not only a preference for harem women, but also reflected in his own ministers. Here I also have to sigh for those ministers who are hungry enough to walk on the wall in order to "thin waist", obviously doing the work of eating by talent, but they have to live a life of eating by body! (However, this unhealthy way of losing weight is not worth advocating, after all, weight loss can also be preconditioned to good health).)
According to records, at that time, in order to cater to the preferences of the monarch, most of the ministers in the Chu court were hungry and yellow-skinned, because the courtiers with thin waists were more likely to be appreciated by the monarch, and in order to make the monarch look up to himself, these literati and scholars also desperately lost weight. The most direct way to lose weight here is to eat less, and I have to say that this hobby of the King of Chu Ling is really giving grain to Chu Province. As described in "Yin Wenzi" and "Guan Zi": "Chu Zhuang loves a thin waist, and every country is hungry", "The king of Fu Chu has a thin waist, and the beauty saves food". It can be seen that the pursuit of body management in ancient times was also male and female!
Perhaps inspired by the King of Chu Ling, many monarchs in later generations also discovered that whether it was the courtiers in the dynasty or the delicate beauties in the harem, they were thinner and better-looking. As a result, this atmosphere of weight loss lasted for thousands of years, but the hobbies of later monarchs were more reflected in the beauties of the harem, and the korean and Chinese officials were liberated a lot. During the Western Han Dynasty, many monarchs were obsessed with thin beauties. For example, during the time of Emperor Wu of Han, a palace maid Lijuan, who was quite favored by Emperor Wu of Han, was said to be thin enough to tie her to a quilt with a belt, otherwise she would be blown away by the wind, and from here it was enough to see how thin this girl was!
With the proofing of the predecessors, the monarchs in the back also followed one by one. Zhao Feiyan during the Hancheng Emperor period can be described as the most famous thin beauty in history! How thin is this Zhao Feiyan? According to records, Zhao Feiyan is slender enough to dance in the palm of a person's hand. Moreover, when Zhao Feiyan got on the horse, due to his light weight, the horse could not feel that he was riding on his back! In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, all those who were involved with celebrities were definitely the style of "Xianfeng Dao Bone", that is to say, most of the celebrities were also skinny and rugged, because only in this way would there be the effect of the immortal qi fluttering when the wind blew up the clothes.
This thin-skinny atmosphere was controlled to a certain extent during the Tang Dynasty. After all, Yang Yuhuan, as one of the four beauties, is a plump beauty. Moreover, during the Tang Dynasty, most people believed that one of the necessary conditions for beautiful women was to have a plump body, which can be confirmed by the Tang Dynasty's female figures. However, although the weight loss exercise was interrupted for a period of time during the Tang Dynasty, it was soon recognized and sought after. Times are changing, but the phenomenon of weight loss has never been broken. Even now, many people still have a weight loss mentality. After all, reasonable weight loss can not only make people light, but also keep people healthy!
References: "Mozi and Love", "Yin Wenzi", "Guan Zi", "History of Han"