We can see from many ancient portraits that the portraits of the ancients are basically with long beards, and everyone's beard is not the same. In fact, in ancient times, every man needed to grow a beard, and there were very few people without beards, like eunuchs, people who dressed as men, and people who were born with less body hair. If anyone doesn't have a beard, it's miserable.
Old man image
In ancient times, if people did not grow beards, they would be considered eunuchs by others, which made people very faceless this time, but looking at the current costume dramas, the pure white and pure image is not in line with historical facts at all. I remember in some of the passages of the book heard that ancient men must grow beards when they are twenty years old, if they do not grow beards, they will be scolded by people for "old and young hearts", "for the old disrespectful", such words, men have to take the beard as the most important thing to protect after marriage, if they do not grow a beard, they will be laughed at by the neighbors, and their relatives will refuse to associate with themselves.
In the ancient aesthetics, as a male, the sheep's beard is the first, first of all, it looks very powerful and handsome, we can see from many historical books, successful people have a common feature, that is, the beard is particularly good-looking. The "Records of History" records That Han Gaozu Liu Bang, high nose bridge, beautiful beard, that is to say, Han Gao Zu Liu Bang's beard is particularly good-looking, although such a record is not necessarily true, but it expresses a thought that the ancients used the beauty of beard to determine the beauty of men.
In the Han Dynasty itself, the beauty of the beard was ranked first, and the appearance of Liu Xiu recorded in the Book of later Han was also like this, and Liu Xiu's beard and eyebrows were mentioned in the book, which showed the importance of the beard. In addition, in "Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu also has a very good title "Hairdresser", in fact, because the beard is good-looking, so there is such a title. Therefore, in ancient times, if your beard was good-looking, it must be official luck in the official arena.
The famous Tong Guan in history was a very burly man, and his beard was also particularly dense, which frightened the Liao monarchs at that time, and directly abandoned their own views that Tong Guan was a eunuch, and directly worshipped Tong Guan to heaven, so Tong Guan was not only eaten in the Song Dynasty, but also was shocked as a heavenly person in the Liao Kingdom. Of course, putting aside the historical records, the ancients did care very much about the beard, and we can feel it in many paintings, so the beard really can't be shaved off at will.
Lee Hyaku Image
The main reason is that the ancients believed that the body skin by the parents, can not have the slightest damage, so the long beard is basically the image of ancient men, although we do not have so many rules and regulations now, but I think in the history of the or have to respect the ancients, can not blindly cater to the aesthetics of many young people who have not yet passed, which is really a very heavy blow to our culture, I hope that there will be a change in the future.
bibliography:
History, Book of the Later Han Dynasty