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In the Northern Dynasty's "Mulan Poem", the girl Mulan joined the army for her father and returned from ten years of battle. As soon as she returned to the boudoir, where she had said goodbye for a long time, she hurriedly "took off my wartime robe and put on my old clothes." When the window is cloudy sideburns, the mirror appliqué yellow".
In the poem, the flower yellow pasted by Mulan is a popular female forehead ornament in ancient times, also known as forehead yellow, goose yellow, duck yellow, about yellow, etc., which is to cut gold-colored paper into various decorative patterns, or paint yellow on the forehead.
This type of makeup originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Buddhism was prevalent, and women who loved beauty and novelty were inspired by the gold-painted Buddha statues to paint their foreheads yellow, which gradually became a custom. Emperor Xiao Gang of Liang Jianwen of the Southern Dynasty "Beauty Chapter" cloud: "About Huang Energy Efficiency Month, cutting gold skillfully as a star." It refers to the yellow forehead. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, forehead yellow was more prevalent. For example, Lu Zhaolin's poem: "Pieces of clouds are lined with cicada sideburns, and the duck yellow is on the first moon." "Pi Rixiu's poem" half-hanging gold powder is like, quiet and graceful Linxi shines on the forehead yellow", Zheng Epic "loves lead Hua thin makeup, but also clothes and goose yellow", after five dynasties to the Song Dynasty, the forehead yellow is still popular, such as Song Peng Ru Li poem: "There are women who die and are called fine mothers, and the pearls fall and the sideburns are painted yellow." In ancient times, it was also fashionable to develop the Buddha makeup from the forehead yellow, Zhang Yunsuo said in "Make Liao Lu": "Hu women paint their faces with yellow things like gold, which is called Buddha makeup." However, this trend did not spread widely in Han China.
There is also a flower pendant similar to Hua Huang, and there is a beautiful legend about the origin of Hua Tian, which is both true and false:
In the "Book of Song" of the Southern Dynasty, it is written that Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Liu Yu of the Song Dynasty, once lay under the eaves of the Hanzhang Palace on the seventh day of the first month, and a plum blossom on the plum tree in front of the palace happened to fall on the princess's forehead, and the forehead was dyed into five petals.
The women in the palace saw that the plum blossom mark on the princess's forehead was very beautiful, so they cut the plum blossom and pasted it on the forehead, and this plum blossom makeup soon spread to the people and became a fashion that women were vying to imitate at that time. Five generations ago, the Shu poet Niu Qiao's "Red Rose" "If you adorn the forehead of Princess Shouyang, the six palaces will compete to learn plum makeup", which is talking about this allusion. In the Song Dynasty, plum blossom makeup was still popular, and Wang Zao chanted in "Drunken Flowers": "The curtain gap of the small boat, the beauty half shows the plum makeup, and the green clouds reflect the flowers like a moment." ”
In ancient times, there was also a kind of makeup technique that applied decals on the cheeks, called face jing, or smile. Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Prince Wu Sun and drunk under the moon to dance crystal Ruyi, missed and injured the cheek of Mrs. Deng, the queen of medicine, the white otter pith and amber to treat Mrs. Deng's injury, after the injury left red spots on the face, Sun He felt that Mrs. Deng was more coquettish, and soon the court and the people rose up to the cheeks, and it was passed down to future generations. Emperor Liang Jianwen's poem: "The makeup is shallow, and the face is obliquely red." That is, to describe this kind of makeup, the oblique red in the poem is a kind of face decoration that matches the face. The face was still popular in the Tang Dynasty, and it was recorded in Gao Cheng's "The Origin of Things": "Women in the distant world like to make powder, such as the shape of the moon, like money, or those who use Zhu Ruoyan fat, the Tang people are also still there." "From the statues of several Song Dynasty queens in the old collection of Nanxun Palace, it can be seen that the face applique Tian still has a residual wind in the Song Dynasty.
According to the texts and images handed down from generation to generation, there are many styles of Hua Tian, the simplest is only a red dot pill, and there are complex patterns of various small animals and flowers. The materials used to make Huadian are gold leaf, pearls, fish gills, fish scales, camellia oil cakes, black light paper, luodian shells and mica, etc., five generations later, Shu Mengchang Concubine Zhang Taihua wrote "Thinking about the past pepper room pets, tears wet clothes damage cui fine", the Cui Tian in the poem is made of kingfisher feathers. Tao Gu of the Song Dynasty wrote in the "Lu Yi Lu" said: "After the Tang Dynasty palace people or nets to get dragonflies, love its green thin, so with a gold pen to paint wings, as a small folded branch flowers." This is a dragonfly wing made of flowers.
Hua Tian is made of a kind of cow and fish swim bladder glue pasted on the forehead, and it can be removed with hot water to soften it when removing makeup, which shows that Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred" "Hua Tian is entrusted to no one to accept it" implies a miserable thing that people can't bear to think about. In contrast, the sentence "Who shares the love of wine, and the frustration of the remnants of the flowers" in "Butterfly Love Flowers" written by Li Qingzhao because she misses her husband is just a warm sadness.