Since ancient times, people always like to use the term "red face and thin life" to describe beautiful-looking women, such as the four great beauties in ancient times, who are very "thin life". So why are mostly beautiful women in ancient times short-lived? There are three factors in this, and they are all fatal.
The first fatal factor is the age of marriage in ancient times. According to the book "Book of Rites", the marriage age of women in ancient times was 15 years old, and they could marry at the age of 15, while the marriage age of men was 5 years higher than that of women, that is, 20 years old before they could get married. Although the ancient people's thinking was conservative and feudal, the marriage age of each dynasty has changed, but there is no postponement of the marriage age, but will be advanced.
It should be known that when a woman is 15 years old, it is still the period of long body, all aspects have not yet been fully developed, and getting married too early will cause harm to the body. And some dynasties also stipulate that women must marry at the prescribed age, and if they do not marry, they will be punished, which is undoubtedly a huge pressure on women in ancient times.
Modern people know that people, when the skeleton will be fully developed at the age of 25 or so, premature marriage and childbirth, the harm to women will be great, but because the ancient technology is not developed, the ancients are not advanced in the study of the human body, so women who married in their teens eventually led to most of them having short lives.
The second fatal factor is the ancient rouge gouache. Modern research on cosmetics, skin care products and other types are very advanced, and only those that meet safety indicators can appear on the market, so it is generally more reassuring to use.
But in ancient times, it was different, the ancient rouge gouache not only did not have modern safety, but also mostly contained toxic substances, and the user did not understand the composition of rouge gouache, so this kind of woman's daily use of things can not be avoided.
Ancient women used rouge gouache with toxic substances for a long time, which could easily lead to various diseases and even carcinogenic. We can see in some ancient paintings that the faces of the women on the paintings are full of makeup and will use lipstick.
This kind of lipstick produced in ancient times, there is a toxic substance called cinnabar in the ingredients, and women who apply lipstick for many years cannot avoid eating lipstick into their mouths in daily life, and finally lead to excessive cinnabar content in the body leading to death.
The third fatal factor is that the ancient medical level is not advanced. When ancient women gave birth to children, there was no special delivery room like modern times, but to ask the stable mother to deliver the baby, but in the process of production, it is inevitable to encounter unexpected situations, such as heavy bleeding, difficult childbirth, etc., even if the skilled stable mother can not stop the bleeding and rescue in time, so there are many ancient women in the process of childbirth, difficult to give birth and die.
Combined with the above three factors, each one is very deadly, and it can be seen that this is why most of the ancient women were short-lived. This also reflects how sad the fate of women was in ancient society, and how happy modern people are.