In various dynasties, in order to show his unusualness, the emperor always liked to implement some methods different from others, so as to add points to his historical performance. Some Ming Kings naturally think of ways to make political achievements, and some tyrants naturally have unique wrists, such as the King of Lu, who seems to have a very high attainment in this regard.
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And no matter in which dynasty, there will be some sinners, but there will also be some traitors and thieves who naturally want to kill them quickly in order to maintain their dignity. So every dynasty will simply have some punishment to punish such people. Here we will not talk to you about those tortures that are too heavy to taste, such as the five horses and the corpse. Let's talk about a crime that is an analogy to grace. Although it is said to be elegant, but at that time, the women who were divided were talking about the color change, what is going on?
It turns out that this kind of punishment is not a heavy punishment, at least there is no fear of life. But it is very humiliating, it is ink torture. The detailed implementation method is to describe the prisoner's face on the forehead, which is a bit like today's tattoos, but the nature is completely different. And the wound after the painting is painted with ink on the bottom, initially leaving a black ink mark, and it is not clean to wash. Think about making such a mark on your face, that is a lifetime to let people point out, don't want to get settled.
Therefore, although this punishment is not very heavy, it is a wound that cannot be erased for a lifetime, a double blow on the flesh and the flesh. It's very comfortable. From time to time, it will be exposed and ridiculed. Therefore, those who have been punished by this crime are also desperately trying to find ways to erase the wounds. And the best way is not to erase it, but to modify it so that others can't see the original appearance. This was called makeup in advance, but it was similar to today's makeup.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and Li Longji, there was a man with a very clever heart named Shangguan Wan'er. She took a fancy to Li Xian as the crown prince and threw herself into his men, but it was a pity that Li Xian was not the material for the emperor, and within two months she was kicked down by Wu Zetian, and later she was listed as Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi, who was initially punished for doing good deeds. This is also Wu Zetian's side of her.
Because Shangguan Wan'er, who had suffered this punishment, broke her face, her love of beauty naturally made her unwilling. She thought of many ways, initially in order to cover the tattoo on her face, she tattooed a plum blossom between her eyebrows, but she did not expect that she was more feminine because of this plum blossom. Later, many men followed her practice and called it plum blossom makeup.
It seems that just think of a way, there is still a way to solve the problem, this practice is actually the predecessor of today's tattoos. I didn't expect that this technology that we only use today has existed for hundreds of years, and it can be used at an earlier time, but it is not recorded.
If we think about it, whether in ancient times or in modern times, human beings had to live, and naturally there would be ideas and practices in advance, but there were those who could not be as free as they are today due to the limitations of the environment.
Shangguan Wan'er is this kind of ink punishment, using makeup to make it very clean. I don't know if Wu Zetian was happy or unhappy after seeing such a situation at that time, maybe she also wanted to make up that plum blossom makeup, find out what she felt when she was old now, and then relive the beauty of Wu Meiniang.