"Fat is beauty" was popular in the Tang Dynasty. The female images in many paintings, sculptures, pottery figurines and various works of art handed down in the Tang Dynasty left us the deepest impression, probably "wealth and elegance". Yang Yuhuan, famous for its "round pearls and jade embellishment", became a typical example of "taking fat as beauty" in the Tang Dynasty. However, people in the Tang dynasty did not blindly pursue "fat", but embodied the elegance, wealth, health and nature of women at that time.

The standard of taking fat as beauty:

On the one hand, people think that the economy of the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and the people had the conditions to eat fat meat; The culture of the Tang Dynasty is inclusive, and the people are broad-minded and fat. The ruling class in the Tang Dynasty appreciated the fat beauty, and the people were also affected.

On the other hand, through archaeological excavations, a large number of murals, pottery figurines and so on. It was unearthed in the Tang Dynasty, in which the female characters were plump, so according to this first-hand information, it was inferred that the Tang Dynasty was "fat for beauty".

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China's ancient aesthetics.

Before the Han Dynasty in China, people only paid attention to women's facial images, and it was not until the Wei and Jin Dynasties that they began to pay attention to decoration. Wei Wendi likes concubines with gorgeous clothes and curly hair. The Tang Dynasty was an open society, allowing bare chests and bare arms. The physical beauty of women is broad forehead, round face and fat body. ?

There is no conclusion after the Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, the original appearance of Guanyin Bodhisattva was generally regarded as a high standard of female beauty, and the Guanyin Bodhisattva carved and painted in various times was a concrete explanation of the aesthetic standard at that time.

The interpretation of beauty in the times is quite different. In the Tang Dynasty, Yang Yuhuan, who was plump, with big breasts and fat buttocks, was regarded as a beauty. But in Song Dynasty, Zhao Yanfei (Han Dynasty) was the most beautiful. She was as light as a swallow and graceful. ?

The four beauties in ancient China refer to the stories of Diophantine, Xi Stone, Wang Zhaojun and Yang Guifei in ancient China. The four beauties enjoy the appearance of "closing the moon and feeling ashamed of flowers, sinking fish and falling geese". It is a historical allusion composed of wonderful stories that "the moon is closed and the flowers are ashamed, and the fish sink and the geese fall".

Emei indigo naturalis: Emei is a woman's eyebrows, and indigo naturalis Emei shaves off her eyebrows and paints them with cyan and black pigments. This kind of eyebrow makeup was very popular as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this adjective has already appeared in the Book of Songs of Chu. Thin waist and snow skin: Although Yang Guifei, one of the four ancient beauties, is a plump beauty, China people still prefer slim beauty, and a thin waist means a thin waist; Snow skin is white. According to legend, Zhao has a thin waist and snow skin.

Lian Bu socks: Lian Bu refers to the steps of beautiful women, and also refers to tangled feet. Small socks refer to socks worn by women who bind their feet; Feet are like lotus flowers. If you put on socks, you will become a beautiful woman.

The aesthetic standards of different dynasties in China are different. At that time, women's status was low. In order to cater to men's eyes, they often had to shape and do something harmful to their health. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a monarch in Chu who liked a woman with a thin waist, and many ladies-in-waiting starved to death because of dieting to reduce their waists. Therefore, there is a saying that "the king of Chu has a thin waist and many palaces starve to death."

Zhao Yanfei was famous for his light figure in Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, however, plump people were advocated, believing that plump people had strong fertility. Wu Zetian and Yang Guifei are plump women, and "Yan Shou Huan Fei" refers to Zhao He.

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Baidu Encyclopedia: Beauty