Lipstick was called oral fat and lip fat in ancient times. The red color of oral fat, painted on the lips, can increase the bright color of oral lips and give people a healthy, young and energetic impression, so it has been loved by women since ancient times. The degree of this kind of love can be seen from Guan Baizhi, a book of Tang Dynasty, which records: "On the 12th, I offered oral fat, facial fat, head cream and perfume bags to the Bachelor of North Gate, and the oral fat was filled with a blue tooth tube." It is written here that oral fat is packed in carved ivory tubes, which shows how precious oral fat is in many cosmetics!
There are many ways to fill your mouth. China is used to taking small mouth as beauty, namely "small cherry mouth". For example, Cen Can, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said in "Poems of Drunk Fight Ren Mei": "A little peach blossom on your lips."
Tang Chaoyuan and later, due to the influence of Tubo costumes and makeup, there appeared "crying makeup" and "tears makeup", which, as the name implies, turned makeup into crying, and was then called "contemporary makeup". The poet Bai Juyi once described in detail in the poem "Contemporary Makeup": "Contemporary makeup comes from all directions of the city and is popular far and near, with no ink on the cheeks and no powder on the cheeks. The lips are black as mud, and the eyebrows are painted low. Black and white makeup is out of its original state and looks like a sad cry. " This kind of makeup is not only unsightly, but also gives people a strange feeling, so it soon goes out of fashion.
Sandalwood was also popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and sandalwood was light crimson. Qin Guan, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, sang in Nan Ge Zi: "Rub your blue skirt and apricot skirt, lean on the jade fence alone and touch your lips without words." This color of oral fat is still popular until modern times. Of course, whether it is cinnabar or sandalwood, we should choose and use it appropriately according to the different characteristics and conditions of individuals, and we must not pretend to be beautiful.