< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >Chinese earliest single eyelid? The Terracotta Warriors do not have double eyelids, which were only popular in the Tang Dynasty</h1>
Sometimes, the distinction of looks can become a form of reflecting regional life and recording history, and can even be said to be written on people's faces, waiting for interesting scientific interpretation.
The reason is very simple, let's take a few simple examples. For example, if we Chinese, relatively speaking, northerners are taller than southerners, and southerners must have better skin than northerners. This kind of appearance even determines their different personalities, tall northerners are generally rougher, and southerners must be relatively delicate.
Another example is ethnography, which is also a science that starts from this aspect, that is, according to the history of human beings in a certain area, there are certain common genetic traits in the constitution, including skin color, eye color, hair color and hairstyle, height, face shape, head shape, nose type, blood type, genetic diseases, etc., to classify and scientifically explain and study the population. Today, yellows, whites, and blacks have different living areas and histories, and look different. If we Chinese, someone suddenly gives birth to a child with red hair and blue eyes, people will definitely say that it is a genetic mutation or a mixed blood.
History and geography are so interesting that they seem to determine how people look. Today, let's talk about the single eyelids and double eyelids that we Chinese.
Now, some people think that single eyelids are not very good-looking, like to do pull or cut surgery, such as a friend of mine, in his forties, half a lifetime of single eyelids, suddenly want to have double eyelids, did surgery, and made the eyelids as beautiful as "flowers". There is also a history of our Chinese in double eyelids and single eyelids. The saying circulating on the Internet is about this: double eyelids only appeared in our Central Plains and Southern Regions after the Tang Dynasty, and before this, people living in the Central Plains and Southern Regions were single eyelids, commonly known as Dan Phoenix Eyes, especially in the Central Plains.
Dan phoenix eyes should be slender, thin but not small, the tail of the eye is smooth and slightly upturned, and the upturned amplitude is different from the hanging eye. Although as an eye shape, Dan Feng Eye does not specifically refer to a single eyelid, it can be an outer double or an inner double, but in the circulation of the Internet, netizens still use it to express the claim of a single eyelid. Although the ancients did not leave photos, they left statues and paintings, and now, let's take a cursory look.
The Qin Terracotta Warriors, their images are almost double eyelid-free. In the Han Dynasty, double eyelids seemed to be more, and in the Tang Dynasty, double eyelids gradually became popular. In addition to the double eyelids of the Han Dynasty, the expression was not as serious as that of the Qin figurines, the facial muscles were not so tight, and there was a trace of relaxation. It seems to be related to the mentality of the people at that time, the short Qin Dynasty experienced many cruel wars, and by the Han Dynasty, people's emotions could finally relax and then show up again. In the Tang Dynasty, relaxation has become loose, the image of figurines and paintings is not only plump, but also more or less exposed, and double eyelids are very common.
In the Tang Dynasty, the double eyelids were very common than the murals in Dunhuang, here is a specific portrait of a person. His name was Li Shengtian, and the Tang Dynasty had actually collapsed in the era, and the Central Plains had a feudal division of five dynasties and ten kingdoms. In 912, he was succeeded to the throne as the King of Khotan, who called himself "Emperor of Tang" and took the Tang Dynasty surname Li as his surname. As a result, the Khotanese regime was known as the "Li Dynasty". In the portrait, he wears a crown on his head, is decorated with the sun and the moon, and holds an incense burner, and he is free of a tall man with double eyelids, and his queen Cao Shi is the daughter of Cao Yijin, the ruler of Shazhou, and is also clearly double eyelids. Combined with some portraits and figurines of the Hu people at that time, it seems that people can conclude that there are "foreign" factors in the double eyelids, which are the products of national integration.
In fact, the Tang Dynasty was highly developed, Hu Feng prevailed, a large number of Hu people entered the Central Plains, Hu and Han intermarried, people ate Hu cakes, courgettes, hu vegetables, used Hu bed, hu music, danced Hu dance, etc., double eyelids are not only very "popular", but also recognized by the cultural level, popular. But this does not mean that the Tang Dynasty people have all become double eyelids, or, after the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese have all become double eyelids, and people can still see the existence of single eyelids in some female figures of Tang and later. For example, the famous painter Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty can see that although the ladies are a little fat, they are clearly single eyelids.
Finally, let's take a look at the portraits and photographs of the Qing Dynasty. Look at Kangxi's first, in the Forbidden City, there is a portrait of his old age, and you can see at a glance that he is a single eyelid. Looking at Qianlong again, although he is very young and thin, he is double eyelids, and his mother, Empress Chongqing, looks at him with double eyelids. Looking at Cixi's photo again, she may be a single eyelid, but in some statues, she has been shaped into double eyelids.
In this way, there is a historical answer about double eyelids and single eyelids: our nation has always been constantly integrated, for the Central Plains people, double eyelids may have "foreign" factors, but for other ethnic minorities outside the Central Plains, single eyelids have "foreign" factors. Our nation grew up in the midst of you and me, you have me, I have you, and eventually become a whole, just like double eyelids and single eyelids later make it difficult to distinguish who is who. And this is our history, and those who cut off their double eyelids or cut out are also their own history.
The pictures in this article are from the network, thank you to the original author!