Thrush was also called Mei Dai in ancient times.
Mainland women's thrush existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In "Chu Ci Big Move", there is "pink and white and black, Shi Fangze only." ”
There are many descriptions of eyebrows in "Dream of Red Mansions", which is particularly expressive. For example, when Lin Daiyu entered Jia Mansion, Baodai met for the first time, and Baoyu said about Sister Lin's eyebrows: "Two bends seem to be frowning and not frowning, and one pair seems to be crying and not crying." ”
When it comes to thrush, you have to mention moth eyebrows.
There are countless descriptions of moth eyebrows in ancient poetry.
"The Book of Poetry, Weifeng Shuoren": "The hands are like soft thorns, the skin is like curd, the collar is like a grub, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, and the head of the moth is eyebrows.... ”
In "Divorce", it is said: "All the women are jealous of Yu's moth's eyebrows, and rumors say that Yu is good and adulterous." "Moth eyebrows have become synonymous with beauty.
Wen Tingjun's "Bodhisattva Man": "lazy to draw moth eyebrows, late to make up and freshen up", is also known as an episode of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
There is a book "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" that records such an incident: Fang Xiaofu's wife Cui Shi is extremely jealous and very harsh on the maids, I am afraid that they are more beautiful than themselves, and only give the painting and makeup rouge one bean and one powder a month. Once there was a new girl in the family, dressed up more beautifully, Cui's jealousy was big, she said pretendly: "I'll help you dress up again." "So" carve his eyebrows, fill them with blue; Burning beams; Burning the corners of his eyes, the skin was scorched with his hands, to Zhu Fuzhi. and scab off, scary like makeup. ”
The allusion to Zhang Chang's thrush in "The Biography of Zhang Chang in the Book of Han" has been talked about so far.
Zhang Chang (张昌), courtesy name Gao, was a native of Pingyang, Hedong (present-day southwest of Linfen, Shanxi).
History records that he was a genius at that time, and a famous minister in history, because he dared to give advice, was upright and upright, and was both honest and gentle for officials, and had outstanding political achievements, and won the commendation of Emperor Xuan.
It is said that Zhang Chang was in the same village as his wife, and Zhang Chang was naughty as a child, and once threw a stone and accidentally injured the girl who was playing with him, so that the girl's eyebrows had a defect.
After he grew up and became an official, he heard that the girl he used to play with could not marry because of his broken eyebrows, so he went to the door to ask for a kiss, and since then, he has been thrushing his wife every day.
Later, Zhang Chang was impeached by Yousi, on the pretext that Zhang Chang was often late for his wife's thrush and had no heavenly son in his sight. When the emperor saw the fold, he immediately called Zhang Chang to the palace and asked him if it was real.
Zhang Chang readily admitted the incident and replied, "I heard that there are many more intimate things between husband and wife in the boudoir. In addition, you pay attention to my talents. ”
The oriental aesthetics contained in thrush are ethereal, soft, spiritual, elegant, and the ancients' pursuit of thrush is no less than the pursuit of fashion now.