China men love beauty.
Han Dynasty: "The Legend of Happiness in Han Shu" contains: "When I was filial, Shi Lang was crowned, and I was divided into a husband and a wife." In the Han dynasty, it was also popular to put bright feathers on hats and coat the neck with white powder, which was called Yu Linlang. At that time, there seemed to be no civil servants who didn't wear makeup. Ancient flour was actually ground rice with a little lead added. In fact, you can't add too much lead. China's ancient aesthetics should be very white. For example, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the peace talks were called Fu Fenhe Lang. . "Beautiful appearance and white color", walking with shadows to suit women's clothing. Taking powder is called "taking five stones powder", which is both a cure and a pleasant spirit. It shows that white face painting is not the patent of ancient women.
Southern and Northern Dynasties: the golden age of men's love for beauty, and civil servants wore gold crowns on their heads. At that time, small crowns were popular, with black hair exposed, white powder painted and eyebrows trimmed. Like women, they are gentle-spoken, wearing big shirts with wide sleeves, showing their breasts topless, and wearing gold leather around their waists. They are called "Shen Yao", whose beauty is thin waist and wide hips, and South is the main creator. How chic and elegant it is to wear clothes with big sleeves, such as birds flapping their wings, wide collars, tight waists and wide pleated trousers made of white gauze! Just like dancers on the stage, incense was good in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. "After Dan left, Wan Li was fragrant" and "Xun went to someone else's house and sat there for three days", even the emperor was no exception. "Biography of Wei Zhi and Zhu Jianping" records that Cao Pi: "The emperor will ride a horse, and the horse hates the smell of clothes, which surprises the emperor." Han Shou was endowed with a strange fragrance by her lover, which set off elegance. Later generations made a pun, and Han Shou borrowed incense to get a lover. This is the story of "Han Ling stealing incense". At that time, people were born with good looks, and they could be butchers for officials or elected officials. They pay more attention to manners, open the history books, and you can see so-and-so "beautiful manners, beautiful manners and beautiful posture" everywhere, which shows that you have a good face, and it is useless to be vulgar, so you must coexist with posture. This instrument is more important than appearance. It is even better for those gentry and noble disciples who "whitewash their appearance and make gestures". I don't think it is too much to wear women's clothes. How to act like a celebrity? Beggars at that time paid more attention to equality between men and women. It is not surprising that women's clothes were popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and men's clothes were popular in the Tang Dynasty. It's not surprising that women dress up their men with expensive powder. "Wei Mingdi wore an embroidered hat and a half-sleeved blouse." Good clothes have tattoos. The man wore embroidered trousers, white powder on his arms, a skirt and a half-length shirt. They are bearded celebrities who read "Beiqi School Book Map" and "Gao Shitu", or high-waisted skirts, with horns on their heads, a maid's head in their minds and a bearded Han Zhongli. Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is a famous era rich in handsome men. Everything that looks good is left on the history of qing dynasty. For example, Pan An, nicknamed "Tan Lang" and Wei Jie, "throw a fruit to make a pot full of money" and "the viewers pour their money" were all killed by fans. Zhou Xiaoshi and Han Zigao, when people saw that they didn't even fight, they laid down their weapons. People in Wei and Jin Dynasties were generally tall, with records of "arms over shoulders" and "body". This is indeed an elegant and beautiful era, but it is wrong to think that men in that era are all neutral and "armed and good at riding and shooting". The warrior Lan Ling wore a shovel to sweep the floor, danced in disguise, fought in the battlefield alone, wore a romantic hat, and coexisted with elegance and martial arts. It was a characteristic of that era. In lacquered wood murals, the assistant ministers are clothed. The pursuit of beauty at that time was not unrelated to metaphysics and immortals, so it was elegant. Natural and unrestrained, enchanting, Dai Bo, fine lines and flowing water, big sleeves opening and revealing skirts are all cultural products of this concept. Don't think that martial arts are only available in the Northern Dynasties. Many celebrities in the Southern Dynasties, with big mouths, boots and swords, are feminine and rigid, not to mention that men's love for beauty is influenced by the Northern Dynasties. In fact, only Wuhu was influenced by the Han nationality, and it was never influenced by the Han nationality. I wonder if Zou Ji and Xu Gong were more beautiful earlier? It happened that the pre-Qin and Han dynasties were the most militaristic, and the strongest national strength was the times. So this is an early tradition of the Han nationality, and it was not regarded as an alien until the Qing Dynasty. The Han nationality itself is a nation that pursues the balance between strength and beauty and femininity, so it developed into Wu Zetian in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. This is actually the unity of opposites between the two extremes.
Sui and Tang Dynasties: Sui and Tang Dynasties completely inherited the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Civil servants used facial medicine (whitening cream), and also gave Zi Xue, Hongxue (freckle removing and acne removing), oral fat (lip balm) and bath beans (shower gel) ... In fact, the mouth fat is still a military supply to a certain extent, and the Commercial Drug Administration is also in charge of it. At that time, ministers always wrote articles with things to express their gratitude ... Tang Dynasty. "Four Seasons Compilation" contains: "Face medicine, take black-bone chicken blood on July 7 and peach blossom in March, and apply it to the face and body. After two or three days, it will be as white as ever. " Fat mouth is a bit like lipstick today. It is not a piece of red paper in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but made of bovine bone marrow, butter, lard and paraffin. Add n kinds of spices, put them in bamboo tubes and sell them by the inch ... don't think that men in Sui and Tang Dynasties didn't love beauty. Sui and Tang Dynasties began in the Northern Dynasties. This culture came down in one continuous line from Han Dynasty to Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are a lot of cultural relics in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, such as Mu Ye. Praise for the beauty of the soul is not limited to the pen "the handsome boy of the clan, looking up at the blue sky with white eyes, shining in Yushu before the wind", "The young gentleman here should be envious, dancing lightly before the flowers fall", and "The Rangers in Chang 'an have met for many years, laughing for you, and the" tied horses and weeping willows "in the Southern Dynasties, drinking as much as possible, wearing black gauze to fold towels, or squatting down.
Song Dynasty: In people's imagination, men in Song Dynasty probably became Neo-Confucianism, and they were isolated from the United States. In fact, this difference has been carried forward since the Song Dynasty, when the scholar-officials were all white-faced and jade-lipped. After the imperial examination, they wore flowers and black hats on their heads and were called "flower-exploring lang" officials. It has become a custom for literati to wear flowers on their heads, and the round neck has also become round. In fact, pink clothes, big sleeves, incense sticks and so on. Also from the Song Dynasty literati. In the play, Genji's clothes were covered with perfume, which blew around in the wind. In fact, it was dwarfed by the Northern and Southern Dynasties. There are many kinds of hats for men in Song Dynasty, no less than the changes of women's hairstyles, all of which are developing in the direction of "cleverness". What "strange clothes" and "bent wings" are bright enough just by listening to the name. Hats are woven into many patterns and worn on the head, all of which have become "playboys"
Ming dynasty: Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming dynasty should be insulated, but it is not. In the Ming dynasty, men actually loved beauty more than women, or dressed more beautifully than women. The name Wei Jinyi is loud and clear. Jinyi jinyi is worthy of the name. Skirts full of gold embroidery and clothes are also called drag, which has become a favorite. The dress is thin and pleated, but it is not neutral. The following pairs of soap boots, every time you queue up for a trip, are probably skirts fluttering and thunder shaking. A hat with horns is also chic enough. Folk men tie up their hair and put on a net towel to keep it smooth. It can be seen that men in Ming Dynasty attached great importance to their image and appearance. If the wind blows even one hair, it is estimated that it is indecent. "Take a bath for three days, take a bath for five days", and keep your hair black and shiny, which is as important as cleansing and shaving. Everyone's son, dressed in colorful clothes, exquisite embroidery of lake silk, with a sachet hanging around his waist, paraded in the city with a traditional fan image. In the Ming Dynasty, the color of men's clothing changed from elegance in the Song Dynasty to exquisite beauty, and they often wore girls' clothes, such as pink and goose yellow. In traditional Chinese opera, "colorful shirts" are even more popular. Even in modern Chinese opera, I often see Xiao Sheng wearing an embroidered straight body with elegant and gorgeous colors, just like Liu Mengmei in Peony Pavilion. Embroidered hats are also white faces, which shows that the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty are not worse than those of the previous dynasties. These elements of traditional Chinese opera should be the evidence and remains of men's love for beauty in Ming Dynasty. In addition, in vernacular novels, it is also common to describe men who pay attention to appearance. For example, in San Yan Er Pai and Qian Xiucai Misoccupied Yuanyang to Raise Money, two brothers, one named Yan Jun and the other named Qian Qing, were ugly, but they took a fancy to a beautiful young lady, and because their looks were not accepted, they called Qian Qing to pretend to be their own cheaters. As a result, Qian Qing was attracted by her husband because of her elegant appearance. As a result, because he was poor, but good-looking, he not only married a daughter-in-law, but even the magistrate of a county turned to him after Yan Jun sued the officials, "making him marry". It can be seen that not only women but also men paid attention to appearance and appearance at that time, and good-looking took advantage of him everywhere, and even officials turned to him, and men were dressed naturally at that time. "The next day, YanJun got up early. . . The scent of real cakes is often used in dragon birthday celebrations. When they are sent to Qian Qing, they will be replaced when traveling. ""After a night, Qian Qing posted it inside and out, all dressed in fashionable and gorgeous clothes, with fragrant movements and more beautiful than before. " Not only fragrant, but also fashionable. Even the selection of Xu in the palace depends on the appearance first. At that time, some children were nicknamed "Xu" by many friends because they were beautiful, which shows the love of beauty in Ming Dynasty.
It can be seen that men of all ages also love beauty, but when did they dress up as an alternative? Maybe I think it has something to do with the Qing Dynasty. As some scholars have said, if you change your clothes and wear a braid, you will naturally have no love for beauty, and your aesthetics will definitely decline. Therefore, dressing up women has become a common practice. I stopped dressing myself up, so that in the end, I felt that "this woman's business" was abnormal. Coupled with the prevalence of male chauvinism in the later period, I feel that women should dress up for men, why men should appreciate it for women, and self-esteem can't stand it. In fact, this is not China's concept. Therefore, in today's era, it is not a sin for men to love beauty. Beauty and femininity are completely different. It's just that when people feel a little embellished nowadays, they are all disgusting. It's really a clear aesthetic. Not an ordinary class. And the makeup of the ancients did not become a woman. Except for a few special dynasties, most of them still developed in the direction of beauty. Although the face is painted white, it is because there is no natural technology in ancient times, so the makeup of men and women will be very white and unnatural. But just like today's liquid foundation, it is not surprising that many actors wear makeup. Mouth fat is lip balm, not blood red, which is the same as lip balm without lipstick today. Even in ancient times, there were men and women, similar to some fashionable men today. So it's not a crime for a man to be beautiful.