The Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang is one of the most famous cultural relics in China, and many people have gone to see the wonders of this world with their own eyes. While being attracted by the terracotta army, I don't know if anyone has noticed that in fact, most of the terracotta warriors are single eyelids. And in fact, before the Western Jin Dynasty, many female figures and depictions of beautiful women were mostly based on single eyelids. This shows that the aesthetics of the Han people in that period were still dominated by single eyelids, which is completely opposite to our current double eyelid-based aesthetics.
Why is this happening?
In fact, the emergence of this phenomenon is not accidental, the earliest Han did not have double eyelids, in the early period of the feudal dynasty, double eyelids people are also very few, this is because before the Qin and Han period, China's race is still relatively pure, and until hu Han a large number of intermarriage, the number of double eyelids gradually increased.
During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Central Plains began to fall into chaos, and foreigners began to invade the Central Plains, followed by the famous Wuhu Chaohua. During this period, population movements were very frequent, and a large number of Hu people poured into the Central Plains, which further promoted the integration of ethnic groups. In fact, since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there has been a phenomenon of hu-Han marriage, and then in the late Western Jin Dynasty, after the Wuhu Chaohua, this phenomenon began to exist.
Why do you say that double eyelids were brought by Hu people? Because now we already know that double eyelids are dominant inheritance, if the Han people originally had double eyelids, then from the earliest feudal dynasty, the number of double eyelids must be more than the number of single eyelids. Since there were many single eyelids in the earliest days, it means that the Dominant Gene of double eyelids did not exist in the Earliest Han People.
Double eyelid epidemic process
Although there have been hu-Han marriages since the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the fusion of various ethnic groups has begun to appear, at that time, the double eyelids were still a minority, and many Han people still clearly drew a line with the Hu people, after all, the contradictions between ethnic groups still existed. Since the Tang Dynasty, the double eyelids have gradually increased. We can see the double eyelid figure from some Tang Dynasty works. During the Tang Dynasty, the Hu people who came to the Central Plains were already deeply influenced by Confucian culture and gradually began to merge with the Han People, and the imperial family of the Tang Dynasty actually had the bloodline of the Xianbei clan, as did the nobles of the Guanlong family during the Tang Dynasty. The number of intermarriages between the two parties gradually increased, and the double eyelids gradually increased.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the various ethnic groups further integrated, and with the emergence of the Silk Road, this trend became more and more obvious, and all aspects of people's lives were affected, from customs, clothing and even appearance, there were different changes, including double eyelids.
After the Tang Dynasty, with wars, foreign invasions, various intermarriages, etc., most of the ethnic minorities in the surrounding areas of the Central Plains began to integrate into Chinese civilization, and in the process of thousands of years of integration, we gradually formed the splendid culture of 56 ethnic groups that we now have. And double eyelids, with the integration of nationalities gradually become more, until today, double eyelids have become one of the signs of "beauty", many people even for the double eyelids and plastic surgery. It can be said that the evolutionary history of double eyelids is the history of the great integration of our nation.
Today, whether it is Han or ethnic minorities, whether it is a single eyelid or a double eyelid, it is already an inseparable part of Chinese civilization, and we are all a unified Chinese nation.