Recently, I joked on the Internet that "I gain three pounds on holidays". Are you worried about getting fat when you gain weight? You may think it would be nice if you could "travel" to ancient times, because in ancient times, being able to gain weight was the "patent" of nobles and very rich people! And when we look through the history books, we can see that the ancients praised the "fat man" in a certain way!
Shuoren: Fat and strong, beautiful and friendless!
Speaking of the ancient people's love for "fat man", it can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,500 years ago. At that time, our ancestors didn't even have iron farm tools such as shovels and hoes, and the food they planted was of course "terrible". At that time, people who can eat enough are also considered "favored by heaven", so if you hear someone praise you as "fat" at that time, remember not to turn your face, because that is a particularly beautiful word!
In the Book of Songs, beauty is directly called "Shuo Ren". For example, there is an article "Feng Wei Shuo Ren", which praises how beautiful a wife who protects her country and her country is: "Shuo Ren is beautiful and well dressed." "Hands like soft ti, skin like coagulate fat. The collar is like a dragonfly, the teeth are like a rhinoceros, and the head is like a moth eyebrow. "
You may be surprised at the translation of this sentence: this is a tall and fat beauty. Her hands are as white and tender as a newborn thatched bud, her skin is as smooth as solidified oil, her neck is as long and white as a larva of a longicorn beetle, her teeth are as white and neat as a gourd, her forehead is as wide and square as a cicada's forehead, and her eyebrows are as slender and curved as those of a silkworm moth.
In another article in the Book of Songs, "Tangshi Jiaochat", it is even more frightening to praise the beauty: "The other son is huge. His son is big and clumsy. " You are really fat and strong, so fat that no one can match you!
Until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the beauty in the eyes of Chinese people was the type of "fat to no one". For example, the beauty written by the writer Cai Yong in Xie Chufu: "The face is like a bright moon, bright as the morning sun, the color is like a lotus, and the muscles are like condensed honey." Later, people simply used "Shuo Ren" to describe beautiful women. For example, Chen Lin, one of the "seven sons of Jian 'an" at the end of the Han Dynasty, said in "Ode to Desire" that a woman is "more beautiful than a master".
In the Tang Dynasty, obesity became the fashion of the whole society. Not only the concubines in the palace are fatter, but even the princesses are fleshy. According to the appearance of Princess Taiping recorded in Old Tang Book, "Princess is rich and has a wide forehead", which is not only fat, but also has a square skull and a wide chin. From this point of view, the pure and lovely, gentle and lovely appearance in the TV series "Da Gong Ming Ci" is just a beautiful imagination today.