Every woman prefers to be described as elegant than "beauty", but what is elegance? Or what kind of behavior can be called elegance?

It's hard for people to understand now. It's okay. Ask for advice like the last celebrity in Shanghai. This is an elegant topic.

An elegant life is drinking black tea, eating toast and reading official documents at work; There is always a handkerchief in the carry-on bag, and there is a sandalwood fan with peony flowers painted on its silk surface next to it; Even when I get home, I have well-trained servants. On the table with white linen embroidered tablecloth and white Dutch carnations in the middle, I serve western food that the chef has already prepared. It's a light blue oil painting of Lin Fengmian hanging in the restaurant;

This is a polished mahogany dining table, a gold lacquer screen covered with ivory costumes, a wine glass shed on a mahogany shelf in Kangxi period, a white jade portrait of Chen Wei, a Ming Dynasty sculptor in an antique cabinet, a rose crystal incense burner, and a three-story nine-story building. ......

And these glitz are the most useless appearances of so-called elegance. Elegance is an inherent quality, which can only be seen in the face of suffering.

Elegance is to distribute the only Qian Lu dollar notes in your account to the domestic servants before you are about to be robbed. Even in the face of hung's fist waving high and the whip falling mercilessly, he begged to keep the antiques of national cultural heritage; Compared with the lost jewels, I am more sad about the smashed records of European musicians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Elegance is that after the well-decorated home is destroyed, you can still hold your bewildered daughter and say with relief, "always look forward, not backward." Property is not important. Think about my antiques. Before they belonged to me, I didn't know how many people owned them and how many wars and natural and man-made disasters I suffered. I got it because someone lost it. I can enjoy them when I have them. Now, I have lost them, let others enjoy them. Life is a transition, and property is not the most important. "

After all, wealth is only the most dazzling coat of elegance. Without the decoration of money, it is easier to see whether the gorgeous cheongsam is full of lice.

Elegance means that even if you are imprisoned for crying injustice, you should use inferior toilet paper to clean up the floating dust that can't be cleaned at all; Is to paste the toilet paper on the wall with semi-deteriorated rice every day; Is to borrow a needle and thread from the doorman, sew an eye mask with a towel and add a cushion to the cement toilet; When I spent Christmas Eve in prison, I still got up my courage and sang the hymn Silent Night loudly. ......

Elegance is to disintegrate people's self-esteem with suffering and humiliation, and to use "You didn't commit a crime, how could you be locked up?" The examiner, who was constantly pressed by the absurd logic you came in, still looked up proudly and said, "I would rather die than lie."

The essence of man is often consistent with the will of the body. When the body collapses, only a few people can stick to their true intentions.

Elegance means getting pneumonia, getting worse and worse, being isolated from the world for a long time, and insisting on reciting the Tang poems recited when I was a student when I was close to transformation; It was the doorman who kicked his ankle and stood up angrily under the pressure of trumped-up charges; But when the soldiers pulled out the dark muzzle from their gun bags, they still stared and said, "If you have definite evidence to prove my guilt, you can shoot me at once."

Scold, push, hate slap one after another, screaming "change! In the end, do you want to pay! " Silence at this moment is the noblest elegance.

What era was that? Even in ordinary hospitals, men and women will not feel proud and ashamed if no one takes off their clothes for inspection.

True elegance is to be handcuffed in order to extort a confession, feel all kinds of pain in every move, but tell yourself, "forget these two hands." If I am disabled, let it be disabled. There are many celebrities in the world who are disabled with both hands or have no hands at all. " Endured the handcuffs of 1 1 day! When the handcuffs were finally removed, the skin covered by the handcuffs was surrounded by pus and blood, and the sores embedded in the wrists left scars until she died.

The key to being an elegant woman is not to be too young. After all, Ba Fanghua's daughter, who walked out of the exquisite life like her and refused to bow her head proudly, committed suicide passively as early as the year when she was imprisoned in 1966, and fell from the building of the Shanghai Sports Association, becoming a pool of blood on Nanjing Road. ......

She lost her husband in middle age and her daughter in her later years. She died in Washington in 2009 at the age of 94. It is not surprising that you are young and beautiful; Beauty in old age is more convincing. Some people are noble on the surface, while others are noble in their bones.