Influenced by the traditional concept of "skin grows on the body and parents accept it", plastic surgery has developed slowly in China. However, looking through ancient books, it is undeniable that the ancients in China attached great importance to their appearance, and there were also many ingenious attempts to fill and modify the appearance defects. According to historical records, in the Jin Dynasty, people used fresh egg white or boiled pig's trotters to make jelly as a mask to treat facial scars, which is clearly recorded in "Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription". The Northern Song Dynasty medical book "Sheng Ji Zong Lu" recorded an example of using jade to grind noodles to treat scars.

Artificial cosmetic dimples, artificial eyes and cleft lip repair are even more brilliant plastic surgery for the ancients. In ancient poetry, dimples are often regarded as a symbol of women's beautiful appearance. In Tang poetry, there is a good sentence of "applying round cymbals face to face", and Xu Ling's Preface to the New Ode to the Fish Terrace also has the praise of "northern rouge, separated by two cymbals". The so-called "round cymbal dressing" is to add two rouge spots to the corners of the mouth with some cosmetics, just like "dimples". Artificial eye is an important eye plastic surgery, which appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. Tao wrote in the Southern Song Dynasty that "Zhang Cun, a young man named blind, suddenly met a skillful craftsman, so that no one could tell the truth from the falsehood". "A skillful craftsman" pretends to be blind, so that "no one can tell the difference between true and false". It can be seen that the artificial eye surgery in the Southern Song Dynasty is quite clever, which can completely confuse the true and false.