Why ximenqing women are five short figures, the only model Meng Yulou, or because of freckles
I don't know whether it is the overall height of ancient women is limited, or Ximen Qing's aesthetic preferences, the women who are good with Ximen Qing in "Jin Ping Mei" compete with each other, and each is good at style, but the description of height is basically "five short figures". Wu Yueniang, Pan Jinlian, Li Zhen'er, and even Song Huilian and Ben Sijie are all described in the book as "five short figures". There is only one tall beauty, that is, the 3rd room Meng Yu Lou.
According to the social customs of the time, the "five short" people are also small and exquisite. Like Ximen Qing liked small feet, the aesthetic of women at that time was small and beautiful, so Ximen Qing's third aunt, Mrs. Meng Yulou, was "tall", the only woman with a model figure, and more importantly, she still had a faint "pedant" on her face, which is what is called freckle beauty today.
On the issue of freckles, orientals are more concerned than the west, and the aesthetics of orientals for women lie in "skin like snow, white and flawless", and a clean and white face is the first sign of beauty. But Westerners seem to have a fondness for "freckles", and many famous contemporary movie stars and models, whether it is Alexis Bradell, Emmanuel Bea or Megan Fox and Rachel Pilson, are known for their faint "freckles". To be honest, I specifically went to check the photos of these beauties, and indeed, after a few freckles, the beauties of the model's figure immediately became playful, vivid, wild and even gentle.
If you think that the aesthetics of the East and the West are very different, I do not agree very much, because beautiful things can always be empathized with and even communicated, the West thinks that "freckles" are beautiful, and the East also takes "freckles" as beauty, and Meng Yulou in "Jin Ping Mei" is an example. Meng Yulou is tall and tall, standing out among the wives and concubines of Ximen Province, in other words, the model figure, although it is different from the aesthetic preferences of the time, but due to the embellishment of a few "light hemp seeds" on the face, Meng Yulou is also the type that makes Ximen Qing surprised at first sight.
This kind of beauty is actually not only Ximen Qing's vision, Meng Yulou's final emotional destination Li Yanei, but also seeing these "pedestal spots" before he was thrilled. It can be seen that Meng Yulou's model figure plus pedocy, and now western international supermodels, film and television superstars are very similar, no wonder the flower in the holy hand Ximen Qingdu hit the festival praise.
In fact, a careful examination of classical literature shows that most of the descriptions of beauty are "white and flawless", but there is also another type of "white bi flaws", and this kind of "freckles" decorated style is more moving once laid out. For women with pedestal spots on their faces, the ancients looked like peach blossoms. This evaluation is the first intuition, why the fate of the peach blossom, is enough to capture the heart, in the common tradition of Eastern and Western aesthetics, there are mutilated beauty habits. The sculpture of Venus with a broken arm in the West and the flowers and plants of the East such as sick plums are all representatives of mutilated beauty.
Therefore, there are a few freckles on the face, which seem to be flawed, but have a unique style, and it is no wonder that Meng Yulou is the transcendent place in "Jin Ping Mei": first, she has a model figure in the modern sense and has no heirs; second, she has the beauty of the flaw "freckles" on her face that are commonly appreciated by the East and the West; third, she is as introspective as her figure and freckles in temperament, which cannot be underestimated.
As the saying goes: nine of the ten hemp seeds are pretty, and no hemp is not windy. Look at today's international supermodels, and then think of Ximen Qing's woman Meng Yulou, Fang knows that the old ancestor is the old ancestor, and the mazi is the icing on the cake for the beauty, sending charcoal in the snow, with a unique style.