Ancient warriors were brave and good at war, and according to the reason, they should be in good shape, even if the eight-pack abs were not excessive, but the ancient generals did not have eight-pack abs, and they were big-abdomen, just like the description of Ban Chao in the "Book of Later Han and the Biography of Ban Chao", "Chao asked about its shape, and the Xiang pointed out: 'Raw swallow jaw tiger neck, flying and eating meat, this Wanli Hou Xiangye.' ”
Eight-pack abs are now a man's description of their ideal body, but in fact, this description is not a Chinese local consciousness, but an imported product. The eight-pack abs were originally the aesthetics of the beautiful image of men in ancient Greek culture, not the image aesthetics of men in ancient China. The preference for the eight-pack abs, which is a human line, has influenced generations of people through some modern film and television works, so that modern people feel that the eight-pack abs are a symbol of health and strength. But in the hands of ancient painters, the ancient generals are standing up one by one, which is a symbol of the general's might, and we can also find a law in the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang, from the stomach of the Terracotta Warriors can see their status, the higher the status of the Terracotta Warriors, the thicker his clothes will be, and the bigger the belly. So to a large extent, it can be seen that people in ancient times associated big bellies with might and status.
General's belly
In modern times, many people begin to be blessed when they are old, and their stomachs are getting bigger and bigger, which is called the general's belly, but many people with the general's belly are often caused by eating and lazy. However, the general's belly of the ancient general was not caused by good food and laziness, but also from ancient battles and ancient combat environments. In modern martial arts competitions, it is also divided into different orders of magnitude according to weight, because the larger the weight, the more muscle mass will naturally be, and the strength will be greater. In the difficult combat environment of ancient times, the army needed to march and fight for a long time, which required the general to have a considerable fat reserve, and the ancient generals were marching on horseback, so the waist and abdomen strength of the general also needed to be large enough to withstand the thick armor and heavy weapons.
Therefore, from the perspective of the practicality of ancient warfare, the eight-pack abs actually do not have great practical value for combat, but this kind of belly-pooping general belly, increasing the weight of the general is more practical for close combat. Moreover, from the perspective of ancient Chinese aesthetic standards, ancient times also lacked the aesthetic culture of the eight-pack abs, which are human lines.
However, from the perspective of modern health standards, the general belly is still unavoidable, modern science has proved that the general belly will be at least linked to fifteen diseases such as coronary heart disease and breast cancer, and the production of the general belly is because of the fat accumulation in the abdomen, and the accumulation of abdominal fat will reduce sugar metabolism, which is easy to induce diabetes. To reduce the general's belly, we must pay attention to many aspects such as diet and exercise, pay attention to eating foods with a relatively low glycemic index, drink less alcohol, and control the intake of meat and vegetable ratio at 1:3, and finally need to participate in more exercise.