Beauties in Chinese historical dramas are often compared to `ten thousand people fall in love with`.
The origin of famous royal beauty secrets
Beauty concepts and styles throughout Chinese history have of course changed, but if you look back objectively, this topic still has common features.
Poster of the movie Yan Hy Cong Luoc – Character of Queen Phu Sat
The marble facial roller is said to be a product of China’s Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911).
Not only facial rollers, ancient China is also the cradle of many other beauty secrets, including makeup powder.
Meanwhile, lipstick (wax form, used for lipstick and blush), made from red flower petals like roses, appeared very early in the Shang Dynasty.
Besides, different historical periods also recorded differences in lipstick application styles.
1: Wei Dynasty – 2: Han Dynasty – 3,4,5: Tang Dynasty – 6: Song Dynasty – 7: Ming Dynasty – 8,9: Qing Dynasty
In addition to making lipstick, rose petals are also used as perfume, moisturizer, or dropped in bath water mixed with goat’s milk to nourish the skin and `infuse` a gentle fragrance on a woman’s body.
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Learn traditional beauty secrets of Chinese women
Chinese people or Asian people in general have special aesthetic concepts about phoenix eyes and eyebrows.
The Han Dynasty had the custom of binding lotus feet, while the Manchu tribe (Qing Dynasty) had the custom of piercing three-hole earrings for women.
During the Qin Dynasty, noble women preferred to have long, natural eyebrows;
Women of the Tang Dynasty also loved plump and rich figures.
During the Tang and Song Dynasty, China favored the trend of drawing patterns in the middle of the eyelids (forehead).
During the Tang Dynasty, Huadian was painted on both cheeks, often in the form of round dots resembling dimples, about 01 cm from the lips.
Speaking of colors, ancient feudal times were very careful in dividing and using colors according to class and status.
In ancient times, there was a division of colors depending on status and royal women used yellow, red and black.
Ancient Chinese people also took great care of their hair because `the teeth and hair are the roots of the human being`.
Ancient prejudices and current concepts of beauty
In feudal antiquity, there were no fashion magazines, no beauty icons, beauty bloggers… then the definition of beauty boils down to being both complex and simple: Beauty is what the emperor loves.
Photo: Movie Story of Yanxi Palace
Of course, in ancient times, women’s beauty standards were very different from today’s.
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