Confidence, independence, courage, wisdom...
These forces affect everyone and the world
3 days after New Year's Day, everyone is busy reviewing and summarizing, and we have also read a lot of annual reports and lists.
Among them, there are many lists such as "the world's most beautiful 100 faces", and the listers are undoubtedly familiar "gods".
Of course, they are very beautiful, but in 2022, should we also appropriately abandon the obsession of "looking at faces" and see the charm of women in more dimensions?
In the past year, the Bund Jun has written a lot of people. There were quite a few women among them, and we were very impressed.
They come from all over the world and work in all walks of life. Some are radiant stars and masters, some are ordinary people who are trying to live; some have just started their lives, and some have stayed forever in 2021.
They may be graceful, tough, brave, or sharp, but without exception they are full of strength.
Beauty is not a superficial appearance in the narrow sense; nor is it a simple and crude adjective. It is self-confidence, independence, courage, wisdom... These forces affect everyone and the world.
We have selected the 15 most beautiful women of the year, whose beauty will not fade with the passage of time, and represent the courage and strength of the moment.
01
Lin Ying
The power of silence transcends race and gender
There are always too many labels on Lin Ying's body to be chased. Domestically, she was introduced as Lin Huiyin's niece.
But her accomplishments are far more noteworthy than her origins: Yale's youngest Doctor of Arts, winner of the American Academy of Architecture Design Award, one of the hundred most important Americans of the twentieth century, twice honored by Obama...
In early 2021, she experienced the death of her husband, but she hid her pain and plunged into a new project to design a beautiful library for her mother's alma mater, Smith College.
Looking back on her life, she has always been penetrated by this quiet force. Every time she faced the wind and waves, she acted pampered.
Lin was born in the United States in 1959. After graduating from high school, she was admitted to yale's School of Architecture. While in school, at the age of 21, she became famous for designing Monuments to the Vietnam War. In the following architectural career, she also designed the Monument to Civil Rights, which represents racial equality, and the Yale Women's Table, which proves the breakthrough of women.
And the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which made her famous in world war I, also made her into criticism. At the time, surviving Vietnamese veterans could not accept that the designer was a woman or an Asian.
At the meeting of the discussion, Lin Ying silently endured the attacks and discrimination of the veterans, acting quietly but resolutely, insisting on retaining the complete design.
After the monument was built, it became the "Wailing Wall of Americans." The story was also made into the documentary "Lin Ying: Strong and Clear Insight", which won the Oscar for Best Documentary.
Flexible and strong, he always maintains a keen exploration and belief in his ideals. This legendary woman, who has lived most of her life, has always done everything with determination, and no one can stop her.
02
Mackenzie Scott
Be self-aware and understand what you want
When he divorced her ex-husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie received more than $53 billion in fortune, making her one of the richest women in the world.
In March, she announced her second marriage in a low-key manner, and her husband was a chemistry teacher at a private middle school in Seattle, an ordinary person.
Everyone is blessing Mackenzie, because she is such a kind and generous good person.
Mackenzie and Bezos were married for 25 years. After the media exposed Bezos's extramarital affair, MacKenzie simply ended the relationship between the two.
Instead of being aggressive in the divorce case, she left most of the Amazon shares they jointly held to Bezos, giving her only 4 percent.
Even more rare is her insistence that this wealth should be distributed to those who need it more. In 2020 alone, MacKenzie donated nearly $6 billion to pro bono charities. She donated money faster than any of the most famous men on the Forbes list, and was in stark contrast to her ex-husband, who was known for slamming doors.
To others, MacKenzie's every choice seems to be "too much of a loss", but she has always been clear about what she wants, and she has a firm belief in embarking on a better life path, which is worth applauding her.
03
Helen Ma
Redefine the sense of luxury and let the world know the real Xinjiang
The fashion industry attaches great importance to the "Golden Nine Silver Ten" of the magazine cover, and the cover of the September issue of VOGUE China in 2021 was taken by the post-90s photographer Helen Ma.
Helen's story sounds outlandish: a returnee, who was nominated for the IPA International Photography Award before graduation, and made a blockbuster film for a first-line magazine in the United States. Obviously, she can reap fame and fortune overseas, but she fled back to her hometown of Urumqi, Xinjiang, the most advanced place in her heart.
Many people think that "premium" refers to those expensive fashions, and Xinjiang is obviously far away from it, and even some "soil".
To reverse this impression, Helen held an exhibition called "Uruklin" in May. She spent 5 days photographing 150 people living in Urumqi, regardless of age, ethnicity and gender, with only one request, "You love Urumqi".
The shiny skirts, turbans, bracelets of Uyghur aunts, and the flower hats and vests of uncles and uncles are, in Helen's eyes, a kind of original, love for beauty and life, and fashion is the original appearance.
"Xinjiang is the coolest and most fashionable, and I want to convey that."
04
Jennifer Gates
The spiritual world of abundance is more precious than the luxurious material life
In May, Bill Gates' divorce case was in full swing, and the Gates children once again entered the public eye.
Jennifer Gates is the eldest daughter of Bill Gates, and unlike the "rich second generation" we remember, she shows the public life as if it has nothing to do with luxury. But from the details, we can still glimpse the invisible wealth of this rich man.
Jennifer has determined her ideal of studying medicine since she was a child and has been working towards this goal. After graduating from high school, she enrolled in biomedicine at Stanford University and is now continuing her studies at mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York.
She loves equestrianism and has been working hard for more than 20 years, even for a year. In various competitions, she has won awards and is currently ranked 19th in the United States.
The love of the rich daughter is also unexpected. In October, Jennifer and her first love, Nayer Nassar, were married. The man is not a tycoon, his parents run an architectural design company, and the wealth is not on the same scale as the Gates family. But both were Stanford high-caliber students, equally proficient in equestrianism, and like-minded.
Stable career, deep love, love together, Jennifer Gates has it. This wealth is far more precious than luxury goods.
05
Zhang Guimei
"The value of my life is to save a generation"
On June 29, at the Great Hall of the People, Zhang Guimei was awarded the "July 1st Medal", which also let more people know her story.
Thirteen years ago, in this small county town of Lijiang, Yunnan, Zhang Guimei founded the country's first free public girls' high school.
It is difficult to prepare for the establishment of the school, and it is almost all the way through the face of incomprehension and misunderstanding. To raise money, she went out on the streets to beg, was verbally abused, spat on, and even let a dog bite, but she persevered desperately because she believed that "a girl educated can change three generations."
Since the establishment of the women's high school, the comprehensive online rate of the college entrance examination has been 100% for 10 consecutive years, and 1804 poor girls have been admitted to universities from here, including Xiamen University, Sichuan University, Wuhan University and other famous universities.
Today, Zhang Guimei, who suffers from bone tumors, rheumatism and other diseases, relies on various Chinese and Western medicines every day to support her, and still stays by the students' side.
At Huaping Girls' High School, the girls' oath contains Zhang Guimei's expectations: "I was born a mountain rather than a stream, and I want to look down on the mediocre ravine at the top of the peaks." I was born a man and not a weed, and I stand on the shoulders of great men and despise lowly cowards. ”
06
All red chan
A genius girl turned out to be born
Before the summer of 2021, the name "Full Red Chan" was not known. Overnight, she turned out to be a household legend.
In the final of the women's 10-meter platform for diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games, this 14-year-old girl scored a perfect score in 3 of the 5 jumps, winning gold with an absolute advantage and creating a new world record.
Each label is worthy of the word "genius.". Everyone is speculating that she may become a new generation of "diving queens".
Behind the aura, the girl's innocence and understanding are more endearing: born poor, hard diving is to make money to treat her mother; the dream is to open a commissary, because there can be endless spicy strips; even after the whole network is sought after and the family life has undergone earth-shaking changes, she still has no distractions, and only knows how to do diving well.
Because of this, we also hope to protect such a simple her to go a little farther, farther.