In pursuit of beauty, most people choose plastic surgery. In people's general concept, plastic surgery was introduced from abroad, especially South Korea, and it is a foreign culture. But, you know what? The cosmetic industry is also a technology that has existed in China since ancient times. If you look through the historical materials, you will find that there were records of cosmetic surgery in China before the Han Dynasty.
The ancients also used fresh egg whites as masks.
As early as the third century A.D., plastic surgery in the Jin Dynasty had made great progress. Gehong, a famous doctor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wrote "Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription", which is the first clinical first-aid manual and monograph of TCM therapeutics in China. The book ***8 volumes, 70 articles, formerly known as "Save the pawn after elbow", referred to as "elbow". In this book "Elbow Emergency Prescription", the method of treating facial scar with fresh egg white as mask is recorded. After that, there are records of various recipes and methods such as boiling pig's trotters into colloid to make masks.
The first plastic surgery queen in ancient times
Wang, the second queen of Xiaoyan in Nanliang, became a concubine because she became beautiful after plastic surgery. She was born with rough skin and big eyes. At the age of ten, a Taoist priest came to the village and told his mother Wang that this woman's eyes could be cured. The Taoist priest gave her a pill and took out various medicines to make a mask and put it on her face. A few days later, she cured her eyes. From then on, Wang was able to enter the palace as a concubine at the age of thirteen because of his outstanding appearance. This is an ancient woman in China, whose fate has changed because of plastic surgery.
There were artificial dimples in the Tang Dynasty.
In the poems of ancient poets in China, dimples are often regarded as a symbol of the beauty of women. In Tang poetry, there is a good "face to face"; Four beauties in ancient China laughed and questioned Yang Yuhuan's beauty. The book records that she stared at her teeth and smiled like a flower; Xu Ling's "Preface to the New Ode to Yutai" also praised "rouge leaves two cymbals in the north". The so-called "face-beating" means adding two small rouge to the corners of the mouth with some cosmetics, which means "make-up on both cheeks", just like "dimples".
The earliest rabbit lip surgery
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, former general Jianwei and Jingzhou secretariat Wei Yongzhi suffered from congenital cleft lip, which was eliminated by surgery and returned to normal. But the first case of rabbit lip surgery has been recorded. Gu Shicheng, a famous doctor in Qing Dynasty, recorded in detail the filling method of the missing lip: "First, apply anesthetic to the missing lip, then stab the skin at the missing lip with a sharp knife, and the blood flowing out is stored in a porcelain plate to adjust the pre-medicine, that is, nail the embroidered needle to the missing skin on both sides, and then apply blood-regulating medicine." Don't cry or laugh for three or five days, for fear of sneezing in the wind. Eat only porridge every day. Once the muscles are full, the silk (thread) is removed, which is to synthesize a lip. "
Intellectual conjoined baby
According to Qian Yong's "Luyuan Conghua" in the Qing Dynasty, some people had a conjoined baby separation operation in the Qing Dynasty. In the early years of Qianlong, a family gave birth to two boys with backs. A famous Chinese doctor in the county thinks that separation surgery can be done. He carefully observed the connection of conjoined babies, put a string on the bow, made surgical instruments, sawed off the two children, and then applied drugs on their backs. A few days later, they were all well. Both brothers lived to be in their 90s. This should be the first recorded conjoined baby separation operation in the history of China.
Smart joints and a broken tongue
Shen Yuan's Collection of Strange Diseases in Qing Dynasty recorded the connection method of broken tongue: children accidentally fell and bit their tongues, so they had to connect them while the broken tongues were still hot. The method used by the ancients was to break the egg gently, remove the hard shell outside, put the film inside the eggshell on the broken tongue at the butt joint, and then apply it with Hongbaodan to connect it. There is also a saying in Qing Tsui Hark's Notes on Qing Barn that the dog's tongue is connected with the human tongue. After that, a senior official in Beijing raped a maid and was bitten off, so he found a Mongolian doctor to treat her. The Mongolian doctor ordered the dog to be killed to get its tongue, put the dog's tongue on the broken tongue while it was hot, and warned not to go out for a hundred days. After a hundred days, the words are still the same.