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Ancient beauty makeup rules
Hua Dian
This makeup method is also called flower, face flower, Decal is a small decoration placed between the eyebrows and face.
As for the origin of Huadian, according to "Miscellaneous Five Elements Book" quoted from Song Gaocheng's "Shi Ji Hou": In the Southern Dynasty, "Princess Shouyang, the daughter of Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, was lying under the eaves of Hanzhang Palace, with plum blossoms falling on her forehead. On the top, five flowers appeared, which could not be removed by brushing them. After three days of washing, they fell off. The palace maid was so strange that she tried to do the best." For some reason, it is called "Plum Blossom Makeup" or "Shouyang Makeup". < /p>
It was also during the Tang Dynasty that decals became popular. What are flower patches made of? In ancient times, there were a lot of materials for making flower mother-of-pearls, including ones cut from gold foil, paper, fish scales, tea oil flower cakes, and the most interesting thing is that even dragonfly wings can be used to make flower mother-of-pearls! For example, "Yan Yi Lu" written by Tao Gu of the Song Dynasty said: "People in the palace of the Later Tang Dynasty caught dragonflies in nets and loved their green thinness, so they painted their wings with gold pens and made small branches and flower seeds." It can be seen that in ancient times, women's makeup methods were not only rich, but also And it’s unique and eclectic. The colors of flowers include red, green, yellow, etc. There is a sentence in the familiar "Mulan Ci" that "the mirror is yellow". In addition to the shape of plum blossoms, the flowers also have various shapes of birds, fish, ducks, etc., which are very beautiful and novel.
Lipstick
In ancient times, lipstick was called lipstick and lip gloss. Oral lipstick is red in color, and when applied to the lips, it can increase the brightness of the lips and give people a healthy, youthful and energetic impression, so it has been loved by women since ancient times. The degree of this kind of love can be seen from the "Book of Tang Baiguan Zhi", which records: "On the twelfth lunar month, I offered lip balm, facial lip balm, head balm and clothing sachets to the bachelor of Beimen, and the lip balm was filled with green." "Ivory tube." Here it is written that the carved ivory tube is used to hold lipstick, which shows how precious the lipstick is in many cosmetics!
There are many ways to apply lipstick and make-up. In China, it is customary for a small mouth to be beautiful, that is, "a little cherry mouth". For example, Cen Shen, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in "Poetry of a Drunken Lady Dou": "A little red lips" "Peach Blossom Yin"
After the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty, due to the influence of Tubo costumes and makeup, "crying makeup" and "tears makeup" appeared. As the name suggests, the makeup was made to look like crying. It was known as "The makeup of the times". The poet Bai Juyi once described it in detail in the poem "Zhuang of the Times": "The makeup of the times, the makeup of the times, comes from all over the city. It is popular in the world, far and near. There is no red on the cheeks and no powder on the face. The lips are like black paste. The makeup is muddy, the eyebrows are painted low, the beauty is black and white, and the makeup is similar to crying. "This kind of makeup is not only unattractive, but also gives people a weird feeling, so it quickly became unpopular.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was also popular to use sandalwood color to decorate lips. Sandalwood color is a light crimson color. Qin Guan, a poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, sang in "Nan Ge Zi": "I rub my orchid shirt and apricot yellow skirt, leaning alone on the jade railing, and touching my sandalwood lips in silence." This color of lipstick is still popular until modern times. Of course, whether it is vermilion or sandalwood, it should be appropriately selected and used according to different personal characteristics and conditions. Never take weird and fashionable colors as beauty.
Fu powder
Fu powder means applying powder on the face. Women in ancient China have been applying powder for a long time, and this has always been the most common way of applying makeup. According to records in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty awarded Yang Guifei and his sisters as much as one million taels of cosmetics every year! Li Yu, a dramatist in the early Qing Dynasty, had a very unique view on the powder application method. He believed that women at that time applied powder "to a certain extent, and the beautiful people used it to increase their beauty." "The white ones can be whitened again." Adding white to black is to show the blackness." This clearly illustrates the relationship between makeup and aesthetics. What is even more worth pondering is that the ancients also linked makeup methods such as powder powder with moral cultivation, pointing out that beauty should be combined with self-cultivation. For example, Cai Yong of the Eastern Han Dynasty believed: "taking photos and wiping the face means thinking about the purity of the heart; powder powder is Think about the harmony of his heart, add powder to think about the freshness of his heart, lighten his hair and think about the smoothness of his heart, use sticks to think about the principles of his heart, put up a bun to think about the righteousness of his heart, and take pictures of his temples. Think about the integrity of your heart." This view is not only insightful, but also has profound implications.
Forehead Yellow
Forehead Yellow, also called Crow Yellow, is painted yellow between the foreheads. This method of makeup is no longer used today. It originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and became popular in the Tang Dynasty. According to "Women's Decoration in Chinese Dynasties", the emergence of this kind of decoration has a certain relationship with the popularity of Buddhism. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Buddhism was at its peak in China, some women were inspired by the gold-painted Buddha statues and painted their foreheads yellow, which gradually became a custom. Emperor Jian Wen of the Southern Dynasty's "Beauty Chapter" said: "Applying yellow can help the moon, and cutting gold can skillfully make stars." The appointment of yellow to effect the moon here refers to the makeup method of yellowing the forehead. When the yellow forehead was popular in the Tang Dynasty, Wen Tingyun recited the sentence "The yellow forehead is infinite in the sunset mountain" in his poem, and Li Shangyin also wrote: "Princess Shouyang's wedding dress, the eight-character eyebrows hold the yellow forehead." Niu Sengru of the Tang Dynasty wrote in "Young Mountain" "Strange Records" also specifically records the story of the goddess Zhiqiong who made her forehead yellow. The yellow forehead was still popular in the Song Dynasty. The poet Peng Ruli sang: "There is a girl who is called Xiniang when she is young, and the pearls fall off her temples and are painted yellow." These all reflect the fact that ancient women liked the yellow forehead.
Thrush
Thrush is the most popular and common makeup method in China, which originated during the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan recorded in "Chu Ci·Dazhao": "Pink white and black black, Shi Fangze only." "Dai black" refers to the use of black thrush. During the Han Dynasty, thrushes became more common, and the more they were painted, the better they looked. "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing" writes: "Sima Xiangru's wife, Wenjun, has eyebrows as beautiful as distant mountains. At that time, people imitated painting distant mountain eyebrows." This means that the eyebrows should be painted long, curved and green, as beautiful as distant mountains. . Later, the use of emerald green eyebrows was developed, and it was also very popular in the court. Yan Jidao of the Song Dynasty described it in his "Six Mods Order": "The appearance of the Cuimei Palace in the late period can be learned from the distant mountains." "The Records of Mizhuangtai" said that "Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty ordered the palace people to paint indigo eyebrows, even the eyebrows. The heart is so long, people call it Xian'e makeup." This kind of green eyebrows is popular, but the use of black eyebrows has become a new thing. "Notes on Ancient and Modern China" says that Concubine Yang "made white makeup and black eyebrows." People at the time regarded this as a new makeup method and called it "new makeup." No wonder Xu Ning wrote in her poem: "Once the new makeup is discarded, the six palaces compete to draw black eyebrows."
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it was popular to draw eyebrows wide and short, shaped like osmanthus Leaves or moth wings. Yuan Zhen's poem said, "Don't draw long eyebrows or short eyebrows." Li He's poem also said, "New osmanthus is like a moth's eyebrow." In order to make the broad eyebrows look dull, women evenly spread the color at the edge of the eyebrows outwards when drawing their eyebrows, which is called "halved eyebrows". Another method is to draw the eyebrows very thin, which is called "thin eyebrows". Therefore, Bai Juyi said in "The White-haired Man in Shangyang" that "the eyebrows are slender with indigo dots", and also described in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow": "The hibiscus is like a face and willows are like eyebrows." By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the forms of eyebrow drawing were even more colorful. There were ten famous eyebrows: Yuanyang eyebrow, hill eyebrow, five eyebrows, three peak eyebrows, pendant bead eyebrows, moon eyebrows, split-tip eyebrows, Hanyan eyebrows, Smoke-smooth eyebrows and dizzy eyebrows. There are so many ways to draw eyebrows alone, which shows the ancient people's deep love for beauty.
Ancient cosmetics——
Ancient women’s “eyebrow pencil”:
It is said that the style of eyebrow thrush originated in the Warring States Period. Before there were specific thrush materials, Women burn willow branches and apply them on their eyebrows (what a weird make-up, it’s better to be a modern person).
The materials used by ancient women to draw eyebrows changed with the development of the times.
From the literature records, the earliest thrush material was Dai, which is a black mineral, also known as "Shidai".
Before drawing, the Shidai must be ground on a stone inkstone to turn it into powder, and then mixed with water. Stone inkstones with grinding stones were often found in Han tombs, indicating that this cosmetic was already in use in the Han Dynasty.
In addition to Shidai, there are also Tongdai, Qingquetou Dai and Luozi Dai.
Tongdai is a patina-like chemical substance. Green Bird Head Dai is a dark gray thrush material that was introduced from the Western Regions during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Luozidai is a thrush material for women in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was produced in Persia. It is a kind of daisy pieces that have been processed and manufactured into various prescribed shapes. When using it, you only need to dip it in water and do not need to grind it. Because its appearance and production process are similar to the ink ingots used for calligraphy and painting, it is also called "graphite" or "thrush ink".
In the Song Dynasty, thrush ink was more widely used, and women rarely used Shidai anymore.
As for the method of making thrush ink, there are also descriptions in the notes of the Song Dynasty. For example, "Shilin Guangji" says: "Take a cup of real sesame oil, rub the wick tightly, put the oil cup in the water and burn it. Cover it with a small device, let the smoke condense on it, and then sweep it down. Three days ago, soak a little oil in the smoke, pour it into the smoke and mix it thoroughly. The ink can be used to cut the sesame oil lamp flower. "Good." This kind of smoked thrush material was euphemistically called "thrush collection fragrant round" in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty, all court ladies used brow stones produced in Zhaitang, Mentougou District, western Beijing, for their thrush eyebrows, and this was also the case in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the early 1920s, with the spread of Western culture to the east, Chinese women's cosmetics also underwent a series of changes. Eyebrow materials, especially rod-shaped eyebrow pencils and chemically prepared black grease, are still used today because they are easy to use and portable.
Fragrant and amiable - makeup powder
Chinese women have been using makeup powder since at least the Warring States Period. The oldest makeup powder has two ingredients, one is ground rice flour The ancient powder is made from rice and points; another kind of makeup powder is made from facial fat that turns white lead into a paste, commonly known as "Hu powder". Because it is made of lead, it is also called "lead flower", and some are also called "lead powder".
Both powders are used to apply on the face to keep the skin smooth and clean.
As for the method of making rice noodles, there are more detailed records in "Essentials for Elevating the People". The most primitive method of making rice noodles is to use a round rice bowl to fill the rice juice and let it settle. Make a white and greasy "powder powder" and then expose it to the sun. The dried powder can be used for makeup. Because this production method is simple, it is widely spread among the people. Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, people still used this method to make rice noodles.