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That’s about it. In fact, both men and women can use it
If history is a torrent river, then the Chinese idiom is sand and gravel deposited on the river bed. Idioms contain the splendid and colorful culture of ancient times and present various characters in ancient society. Among them, idioms about women can be said to be everywhere, too numerous to mention, and many of them use rhetorical techniques such as metaphors and metonymy. Below we will mainly take a look at some idioms used to describe and describe women and their commonly used rhetorical techniques and metaphors.
Idioms about women are mainly for beautiful women. From the observation point of view of the ancients, we can find that their description of beauty is all-round, from the whole to the part, from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, from the voice to the smile, from the temperament to the conduct, etc., all have specific details. The vivid descriptions more comprehensively reflect their aesthetic standards. < /p>
In terms of voice, appearance, and smile, the beauty of appearance is described and compared with flowers, grass, pearls, and jade, including: flowery face and moon appearance, flower-like jade, national beauty and heavenly fragrance, water hibiscus, etc., while the moon is shy of flowers, the fish is sinking and the wild goose is falling, and the swallow is jealous of the orioles. , Human Face Peach Blossom, and Beauty Vanilla are set off by flowers, plants, animals, etc.; I See You Lian is set off by the feelings of others, and Beautiful and Delicious uses the rhetorical technique of "shifting the senses" (moving from external feelings to internal feelings). Every smile of a beauty is so graceful, including a charming smile, a charming smile, a look-back smile, etc., so a beauty's smile is worth a fortune; even if she cries, it is like pear blossoms with rain, charming, and pitiful; her voice is like the voice of a swallow or an oriole. , the singing voice is round and round, like an oriole emerging from the valley; even the breathing is like a orchid, and the blowing is as bright as an orchid.
Step by step, willows swaying in the spring breeze, etc.; Huanfeiyanshou refers to people with different body shapes based on the different body postures of Yang Yuhuan and Zhao Feiyan in the Tang and Han Dynasties.
In terms of appearance and temperament, it is generally well-mannered and charming. Linxiafengzhi (qi) implicitly reflects a woman's elegance and generous manners. Chang'e in the moon refers to a graceful woman. , while the fragrant clothes and shadow on the temples and the messy hair and hair on the temples use partial clothes and temples to refer to the overall expression and deportment.
From a local point of view, when describing the beauty of eyebrows and teeth, rhetoric is not used, such as beautiful eyebrows, bright eyes and white teeth, etc., but more metaphors, metaphors and other rhetorical techniques are used, such as picturesque eyebrows, starry eyes. White teeth, moth eyebrows, white eyebrows, willow eyebrows with bright flowers, double pupils with water cut, spring mountain horoscope, etc. In addition, related to the eyebrows, frowning (vertical) and wide-open eyes are the expression of a woman when she is angry, while frowning and crying describe a woman's demonic appearance, and lightly sweeping her eyebrows describes a woman's elegant makeup.
Ice jade is mainly used to describe the beauty of skin, including ice skin, jade bone, ice skin, snow skin, etc.
In short, the typical beauty in the eyes of the ancients should have willow eyebrows like smoke, small cherry mouth, face like peach blossoms, skin like gelatin, as quiet as a virgin, and as active as a rabbit.
In addition to the beauty of appearance and manners, there is also the beauty of chastity and purity, the spiritual beauty of Gushe, the beauty of virility, the beauty of both internal and external beauty. Different from the above-mentioned beauties, there are heroines (using the word "heroine" used by women to refer to brave and heroic women), heroes among women, Yao and Shun among women, husbands among women...
Regarding the misfortune of a beautiful woman, the word "beauties" is used to "refer to" beauty; the misfortune of peach blossoms is used to "metaphorize" beauties with peach blossoms, which are similar to women's beauty; and "xiangxiaoyu" is used to "refer to" beauty. "Concealment" rhetoric.
In addition, from the perspective of status, there are different kinds of beauties. Those who come from a small family are called Xiaojiabiyu, those who come from a wealthy family are called ladies, those who were born in a royal family are called golden branches and jade leaves; those who come from a good family The name is My Fair Lady, and the one who came from Qin Lou Chu Palace is Queen Marie...
Women of different ages include: the beauty of twenty-eight years of cardamom, the year of breaking the melon, and the first division of the melon (breaking the melon into two Bazi, that is, the year of twenty-eight, refers to a woman's sixteen years old); an unmarried woman is a yellow-flowered girl, a sister-in-law who is alone, a waiter in a boudoir, and Yunying is unmarried (Yunying, a famous singer in Zhongling in the Tang Dynasty, generally refers to an unmarried adult woman) ; Those who have reached the age of marriage are those who have reached the age of marriage; those who have reached the age of marriage are those who have reached the age of twenty-four; those who have reached the age of marriage are those who are young and beautiful; those who already have a husband are Luofu Youhu (in ancient times) The famous beauty Luofu refers to); a woman around forty whose appearance is no less beautiful than when she was young can use the words "charming is still there", "amor is still there", "the lingering charm is still there", etc.; while a charming woman who has reached or passed middle age can be Milfs and middle-aged women (referred to as "Xu Niang" by the Xu family of Emperor Liang Yuan); and old women whose beauty has faded are yellow pearls, and are looked down upon like pearls that turn yellow over time and become worthless.
From the above idioms about women, the ancients often used metaphors, metaphors, exaggeration and other rhetorical techniques to describe beauties. Choose the brightest colors, and choose the purest pearls, jade, ice and snow. It can be seen that the ancients valued the beauty of women inseparable from color and purity. There are far more descriptions of external beauty than inner beauty. It can be seen that the ancients paid more attention to the appearance of women, while regarding the inner aspects, they paid more attention to them. In particular, literary talent was looked down upon, which was closely related to the prevailing culture that "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue."
Idioms are a kind of condensed national culture. A series of idioms about women show the ancients’ attitude towards women. The use of rhetorical techniques is more vivid than speaking directly, reflecting the classical style of idioms; metaphors and metaphors are often used. The rhetoric reflects the aesthetic concept and way of thinking of the ancients who "like music but not straightness".