Silent Flowers: Ancient Fashion in Evolution
One about ancient women
Aesthetics and lifestyles
In ancient times, how was beauty determined? How does fashion spread?
Recently, "Pieces of Flowers Fall Silently: Ancient Fashion in Evolution" was published by Zhonghua Bookstore. The book is informative, informative and interesting to read. The content of this book is a female theme, for readers who love ancient costumes and makeup, the design of the book focuses on the style of bright literature and art, in order to hope that the healthy and elegant life interests and aesthetic fashion of ancient women can be paid attention to by contemporary women.
This is a book about women's makeup and aesthetics in ancient China, covering the aesthetic culture of ancient women and the fashion of various periods. This book discusses the aesthetic origins related to this and the cultural phenomena in the development process from ten topics such as makeup, clothing, hairstyles, jewelry, beauty parties, and incense parties, interspersed with the elegant lifestyle of ancient women. It cites a large number of ancient books, including poems, notebook novels, and yuanqu, telling the sources of many allusions, and showing the pursuit of beauty by ancient Chinese women as comprehensively as possible.
The book has rich illustrations as a supplement to the text, and you can very intuitively see the female figures of each period. This book can not only become a window for ordinary readers to understand ancient women's culture, but also provide professional readers with relevant literature content and clues.
[Ming] Du Yan's "Picture Scrolls in the Palace" (partial), shanghai museum collection
[Qing] Fei Danxu's "Zhaojun Out of the Seto", beijing palace museum collection
[Song] Zhou Wenjue's "Xizi Huan Sha tu", beijing palace museum collection
[Eastern Jin Dynasty] Gu Kaizhi (biography) "Female History Zhentu" (partial), British Museum collection
The fashion enthusiasm of the ancients is no less than that of today's people. For example, the King of Chu Ling in the Spring and Autumn Period liked to have a thin waist and work upward and downward, and the Chu people had to diet even if they starved to death, and they were hungry enough to walk against the wall without complaint or regret. Later literary works made this matter an artistic treatment, and there was "the king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace." "For the Xiangwang Forbidden City, it is still as thin as a waist."
Thinness lasts a long time. A great wealth in the Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong crushed the perfume into powder, sprinkled it on the ivory bed, let the maid step on it, and if anyone passed by without leaving a trace, he would get a hundred pearls. Those who leave traces should diet and lose weight. The Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were also beautiful for women's petite size. (Chapter 9 of "Falling Flowers") Looking at history, if foodies were born in the Tang Dynasty, it would be really happy, and in that era, both men and women were white and fat, whether in the rivers and lakes or the imperial court, thin people were difficult to mix.
[Tang] Anon. "Chess Lady Figure"
As for the advanced fashion, every dynasty is not lacking, from long hair to robes and sleeves, tall buns to high hats, all kinds of strange shapes, colorful, the ancients have all tried. Bai Juyi wrote several poems, saying that the makeup of the time was "black paste on the lips like mud, and the eyebrows were painted with eight characters low." Yuan Shu 's "Book of Poetry Sent to Lotte": "A woman in the modern world, dizzy eyebrows, a bun, a slenderness of clothes and matching colors, especially strange." The two poets did not seem to understand the fashion of the time.
Cao Zhe
Zhonghua Bookstore
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: Zhang Lingyu
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Li Yani