"A charming smile brings a hundred charming faces" means: When a beautiful woman with a charming smile smiles, she becomes charming and charming in all kinds of ways.
The quote is adapted from "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty. The original text is:
Born with beauty, it is hard to give up on yourself. Once you choose it, you will be on the side of the king. Looking back and smiling, the sixth palace has no color.
Explanation: Naturally beautiful and charming, it was difficult for her to be buried in the world. As expected, it didn’t take long for her to become a concubine beside Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty. When she looked back and smiled, she was full of charm and charm; all the six officials and concubines were overshadowed.
Allure: Describes the beauty of a woman or the colorful flowers, and also means that the whole city is mobilized.
Extended information:
Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" uses concise language, beautiful images, and a combination of narrative and lyrical techniques to narrate the love between Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei during the Anshi Rebellion. tragedy.
At the beginning of the poem, the poet explained the reasons for the chaos in the Tang Dynasty and revealed the tragic elements of the story with the sentence "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty paid great attention to beauty and thought of his country." It not only reveals the tragic elements of the story, but also evokes and guides the entire poem. After that, the poem gradually unfolds, narrating layer by layer: First, it talks about Tang Xuanzong's emphasis on color, and after pursuing it in every possible way, he finally takes Concubine Yang into his arms, who "looks back and smiles with all the charm, and the pink and white in the sixth palace have no color."
Later, he described Yang Guifei's beauty and how charming she was, which made her favored in the harem. "Sisters and brothers are all foreigners." The Yang family became powerful and arrogant because of Concubine Yang. After getting Yang Guifei, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty indulged in singing, dancing, drinking and sex all day long, so much so that "from then on, the king did not go to court early". The poet repeatedly exaggerated this to point out the reasons for the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion.