When it comes to the Tang Dynasty, most people will think of the prosperity and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the advanced civilization developed by the Tang Dynasty. Some time ago, Chen Kaige's "The Legend of the Cat Demon" allowed many people to experience the prosperity and song and dance of the Tang Dynasty again. Many people praised the acting skills of Yang Guifei's actor Zhang Rongrong, saying that the scene of yang guifei played by her looking back and smiling is a classic.
Many viewers also commented on Zhang Rongrong's version of Yang Guifei's face like a silver plate, and there was a kind of femininity in her hands and feet, which can be called Fanghua's unique generation. As we all know, Yang Guifei has always given the impression of being fat to the world, otherwise there would be no such thing as "ring non-Yan thin". However, the weight of Yang Guifei in reality is not as fat as it is rumored to be, and at most it can only be regarded as plump.
First, the inherent impression culture is enlightened
If the Tang Dynasty is said to be "plump for beauty", then it is necessary to trace back to the enlightened culture of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty can be said to be a dynasty in China's history that developed more and trade exchanged more with neighboring countries. Even today, the ancient architecture of Japan and Korea is influenced by the Tang Dynasty, which shows that the Tang Dynasty was economically prosperous and the culture was widely spread.
The Tang Dynasty was a relatively inclusive era, because Tang Taizong unified the Central Plains, and many famous ethnic cultures were integrated, such as the Western Regions culture and the northern nomadic culture. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty diversified in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Relatively compared with the present, most of the ancient Chinese dressing styles are still relatively conservative, and the Tang Dynasty is unique.
In the past, women were mainly conservative, and they could not talk and walk as they pleased, let alone wear daily clothes. However, the Tang Dynasty broke this stereotype and became very popular with the loose skirt dressing style of semi-naked breasts, especially the concubines in the palace and the women of the high-ranking officials and nobles. They use beautiful clothes to reflect the beauty of the woman's graceful beauty and plump eyebrows.
The Tang Dynasty has always given the impression that it was well-fed, socially enlightened, and a dynasty with few constraints. Many of the portraits handed down to later generations are the prosperity and beauty of the Tang Dynasty, and some of the portraits of ladies are basically silver plates and rich and colorful, so later generations will define the Tang Dynasty as a dynasty that prefers abundance, so it is also considered that Yang Guifei is rich and fat.
Second, the definition of fullness is actually not fat
It is well known that Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was extremely fond of singing and dancing, and many of his concubines were all in his favor and had high attainments in song and dance, so they won the favor of Tang Xuanzong. For example, Li Longji's early favorite Concubine Mei was good at their own instruments and dances, and also choreographed the famous work "Shocking Hong Dance", which was rumored to have been popular in the Tang Dynasty for a long time.
It is just a pity that nowadays, the "Amazing Dance" has been lost, and the record of it only stays in the "Shocking Dance" is a dance that imitates birds, with a thousand postures, light and flexible. And Yang Guifei first entered the eyes of Shou Wang Mao, also because of the song and dance performance. In the later period, Tang Xuanzong fell because of dance.
From this aspect, it can be seen that Yang Guifei's dance may be more advanced than MeiFei.com. It is said that after Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, in order to win the favor of Tang Xuanzong, he desperately practiced poetry and song, which was bound to surpass Concubine Mei. Yang Yuhuan also learned Zhao Feiyan, using "breath muscle pills" to make his skin win the snow, relatively thin, and able to perform all kinds of songs and dances.
In the Tang Dynasty itself, there was a Huxuan dance in the popular dance music, and this dance had certain requirements for women's height and weight, if they were too fat to dance the agility of the dance. And the dance that makes Yang Yuhuan famous in the world, "Neon Dress Feather Dance", needs to be light and graceful, such as Bai Juyi's words "Rainbow Dress Xia Shuai Step Shake Crown, Tungsten Ying Shu Shu Pei Shan Shan." Lou Ting did not seem to let Luo Qi, and Gu Tingle hung up and stopped. ”
If Yang Yuhuan is really a big fat man as later generations say, then how can she dance the soul of the "Neon Dress Feather Dance", how can she get the favor of Tang Xuanzong by relying on this dance, and how can she be famous in the world, compared with the former Concubine Mei?
In addition, in historical records, Yang Yuhuan was not only good at singing and dancing, but also good at riding horses. The Yuan Dynasty painter Qian Xuan once produced a masterpiece "Yang Guifei On the Horse Map". The painting shows Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei staring at each other on horseback riding. Since being able to ride a horse also means that Yang Yuhuan can only be said to be a fruitful woman, not a big fat man, otherwise why ride a horse?
Perhaps it is the phrase "Huan Fei Yan Thin" that defines Yang Guifei as a fat person. But in fact, it is not, although the Tang Dynasty took fullness as beauty, but fullness is not obesity. According to the various deeds handed down by Yang Guifei, it is enough to prove that Yang Guifei can only be said to be the definition of fullness rather than the definition of obesity. The true meaning of fat in "Ring Fat Swallow Thin" may only represent fullness.
Third, tracing back to history at the beginning of the thin
When people really study history and trace the origin of Tang Dynasty culture, it will happen, Zhao Feiyan, who is "thin in the ring of fat swallows", is really as light as a swallow, while Yang Guifei is not fat, and at best it can only be defined as plump. It is only the inherent impression of the past that many people define the plump beauty pursued by the Tang Dynasty as obesity.
The Tang Dynasty's concept of plumpness was not from the beginning, according to some historical records, the original Tang Dynasty still liked to be delicate. At that time, the Tang Dynasty had just been established, and it had not yet integrated with the surrounding countries and national cultures, but retained the aesthetic hobbies of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty. Women are mostly beautiful in their delicate and sick state, rather than in their fullness.
Some works passed down to later generations have also recorded that the Tang Dynasty also liked women's delicate verses, such as Bai Juyi's "He Chun Shen" once wrote: "A thousand autumn thin waist women, swaying and swaying to the wind." "Describe the woman's slender waist, sitting on the thousand autumns swaying with the wind, the scene is very beautiful." It can be seen that women in the Tang Dynasty also used to be thin and beautiful.
Only later, with the unification of the Tang Dynasty and the integration with the surrounding tribal peoples, the aesthetic began to change slowly. Northern nomads, with a more unrestrained personality, love to ride and shoot, and the woman's personality will be free to love freedom, and dress will be unrestrained. The Tang Dynasty integrated multiple ethnic cultures, and naturally accepted and popularized the cultures of other ethnic groups, because it liked freedom and fullness.
Coupled with the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty at that time, if the women were delicate and soft, how could they reflect the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty? The cultural aesthetic evolution of a Tang Dynasty is actually related to the level of economic development of a country, the standard of living has gone up, and it is no longer necessary to pursue thinness as beauty, and the fullness of women also shows that the people live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer suffer from war.
summary:
According to some wild histories, Yang Guifei was about 165 centimeters tall and weighed 120 pounds. Although Yang Guifei's true weight cannot be known, according to various phenomena, Yang Guifei can only show that Yang Guifei is plump rather than fat. Nowadays, the standard of living is good, and we should not pursue extreme thinness or fatness, but should be controlled within a reasonable range, and it is right to take health as beauty.