Men and women in Sui and Tang Dynasties, as people who loved beauty, were particular about makeup?

It is said that the person who made a lot of money last year was Li Jiaqi. It is said that in 20 19, Li Jiaqi's personal income reached 200 million. Many people joked that Li Jiaqi brought down a listed company by himself.

After the media disclosed Li Jiaqi's mansion in Shanghai, people found that the shelves in Li Jiaqi could even be full of lipstick, and the value of these cosmetics might be enough for Li Jiaqi to buy another mansion.

I have to say that Li Jiaqi is a pig standing in the wind. In this era, women love makeup, and learning makeup has become a common phenomenon, which has brought many opportunities to many beauty bloggers and new makeup brands.

The custom of makeup not only existed in modern times, but also existed in the feudal period of Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, people also had a lot of make-up customs, so how did people make up in Sui and Tang Dynasties?

The nobles in Sui and Tang Dynasties paid great attention to makeup. At that time, the cosmetics used by aristocrats were equally expensive, so aristocratic women spent a lot of money in pursuit of beauty. At that time, women's makeup was not only coloring their faces, but also the decoration of their arms and heads.

1. Female facial makeup

Women in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, like modern people, can make up their eyebrows and lips, or make up other parts of their faces once. Women attach great importance to makeup. Once in the whole Tang poetry, there was a saying:

The content of this poem is a wedding night. The newlywed wife asks her husband if his eyebrows are the same as those he saw outside. What about depth? It can be seen that women are still very concerned about painting eyebrows, and they will also care about other people's comments.

Eyebrows in the Tang Dynasty are generally painted in black or emerald green, and there are also arch eyebrows and Emei in style.

According to Qing Louis, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty also had his favorite eyebrows, such as mountain eyebrows, five-month eyebrows and beaded eyebrows.

Even the emperor attached great importance to women's eyebrow makeup, so women in a subordinate position in feudal times naturally chose their own eyebrow makeup style according to their husbands' preferences.

Many famous poets in the Tang Dynasty also used poems to describe and praise women's eyebrows. For example, Cen Can once wrote in the "Yumenguan Gai Jiangjun Song": "Beauty has a pair of leisure and capital, and her lips and eyebrows reflect bright eyes."

What is depicted here is the woman's Cuimei, a beauty who praises Cuimei. She has big bright eyes and is very beautiful.

Du Mu also recorded a poem in "The Whole Tang Poetry": "Green eyebrows are willing to give up, red faces hate to float", which is also the process of changing eyebrows. The custom of female thrush has become a very common phenomenon.

At that time, women not only changed their faces and eyebrows, but also painted their faces with yellow powder. Is this very similar to modern loose powder? Many women in the Tang Dynasty also decorated their foreheads with flower buds.

Women in the Tang Dynasty also paid special attention to make-up, which is a method of making up with red spots on their cheeks.

According to the "Thirty Years of Archaeology in Xinjiang", I once saw this makeup on the face of a small female statue unearthed in Tangji, Turpan, Xinjiang.

Like modern people, ancient women also like to change their lips. Lips can enhance the vitality of the whole face.

According to "Dressing Table", during the period of Tang Xizong and Zhaozong in Tang Dynasty, women competed for beauty, and whether lip makeup was beautiful or not was regarded as the standard to distinguish Yan Yi.

In other words, women in the Tang Dynasty held some competitions to compare who had the best lip makeup. Even Bai Juyi has a poem saying: "Black ointment is like mud on the lips" to record this custom of women.

2. Female head decoration

Women's headdresses in Sui and Tang Dynasties have undergone many changes, and they are also very gorgeous. High bun was popular in the early Tang Dynasty, and fake bun was also popular in the middle Tang Dynasty.

There is a folk nursery rhyme in Ming Taizu Miscellanies: "Doctor Yi (that is, bun) threw himself into the river, and his yellow shirt was driven away by water." This also depicts the appearance of bun in Tang Dynasty.

The instruments used by women to tie their hair are also exquisite, called hairpin, and there are several kinds of bamboo, horn, gold and silver, tooth and jade to choose from. Later, in order to make the hairpin look more beautiful, it was also improved. For example, carving patterns are added to it, which makes it more exquisite.

In Bai Juyi's poems, which we have memorized since childhood, there is a sentence in Song of Eternal Sorrow: "The flower hairpin falls to the ground, and no one picks it up, a green and white Hosta, and a golden hairy bird." It's about the scene where this item gets stuck in the head.

In the Tang Dynasty, besides women, men also paid attention to makeup. Men and women also use facial fat and oral fat, and lipstick is also necessary. In Ren Zhuan, it is recorded that "catching life and bathing in the neck, putting a towel on the head and putting it on the lips" is enough to see the commonality of men's makeup.

1. How much did men in the Tang Dynasty love beauty?

According to "wood blade Chat", there was a man named Li Shanfu who loved beauty very much and asked his second maid to "comb it with a golden plate". Every time after taking a shower, guests come to visit him, even treating him as a woman, which is enough to show his exquisiteness.

Empress appeared in that period, so as we all know, Wu Zetian owned Toy Boy. Some men, because they are beautiful, can naturally become the red man in front of the emperor by virtue of their looks, so there are also men who make a living by their looks.

In Old Tang Book, he wrote that he still gave up the imperial willow mode and praised his son: "white and beautiful", which originated from Wu Zetian's recommendation to recruit some men he liked to serve in the palace.

It can be seen that men who were good-looking at that time and could dress up and make up were naturally equivalent to small fresh meat of that era and would get more opportunities to serve the nobility and the royal family. It is not difficult to understand why men in the Tang Dynasty liked beauty and exquisiteness so much.

2. Men's popular Zanhua custom

Men in the Tang Dynasty had the custom of hairpin flowers, which can now be understood as the custom of wearing flowers on their heads.

Su Yi wrote in Poems of Ying: "Fly to red mist and swim to cover the sky.". As soon as this poem was written, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty liked it very much, and put the imperial flowers on the headscarf.

The reason why there is a "royal flower" is that this kind of flower was originally worn on the head of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, which shows that this custom has already appeared among men at that time.

It was a man named Li Mengfu in the Tang Dynasty who acted smartly. He often looks for fancy restaurants all over the street, writing this poem while looking for wine, describing his chic life.

Therefore, men wearing flowers at that time would look more chic, which was a fashion. The custom of arranging flowers became more and more common, and it became one of the official systems in the Song Dynasty.

3. Male tattoo culture

Tattoo culture began to develop in the middle Tang Dynasty. Today, it should be a bit similar to today's tattoo.

Now it is a symbol of fashion and the pursuit of individuality for some young people. In the middle Tang Dynasty, the earliest tattooers were usually street bullies or soldiers, and the tattoo contents at that time were also varied and colorful.

For example, there is a Fang Min on Chang 'an Avenue. His left arm is tattooed with "He is not afraid of Beijing and Zhao Yin" and his right arm is tattooed with "He is not afraid of Yan Luowang". Some people also tattoo some plants, birds and animals. It is enough to see that men in the Tang Dynasty also pursued individuality.

Many men's tattoos in the Tang Dynasty were also related to poetry. Zhang Yan's poems created the artistic conception of "West Western jackdaw Collection", so a boy named Wei stabbed a tree in his chest and hung dozens of birds under the mirror.

It seems that many young people secretly compare each other with their tattoos in order to correspond to the artistic conception of this poem.

This has to mention Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, who occupied a place in the literary world at that time and was sought after by young people. Many people even tattooed Bai Juyi's poetic meaning, which seems to mean that some modern people are idolized.

It can be seen that the poem went deep into tattoo culture and became a major feature at that time.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were even a lot of tattoos and poems. For example, a man named Ge Qing once stabbed a person with a glass of wine in front of a chrysanthemum. The artistic conception comes from a poem by Yuan Zhen, "It's not that chrysanthemum is preferred among flowers, but that this flower is even more flowerless."

He also gave himself some poems by Bai Juyi, and for these reasons, he got a nickname, "Bai Sheren writes poems."

It seems that compared with today's tattoo culture, the tattoo culture in the Tang Dynasty seems to have more cultural artistic conception, which combines tattoo with poetry in an interesting way.

The makeup of people in the Tang Dynasty looks a little simpler than that of modern people. On the contrary, some makeup artist today may have been popular since the Tang Dynasty. For example, thrush, even today, Liu and Emei are welcomed and examined by young people. Who would have thought that thousands of years of ancestors had studied it?

The tattoos we are proud of have some similar origins as early as the Tang Dynasty. Men in the Tang Dynasty, like women, have their own aesthetic art and pay attention to dressing up.

These cultures have been circulating for so long that they have certain influence on later people. Perhaps the pursuit and exquisiteness of beauty in the bones of the Tang people also deeply influenced the character of later generations and added some exquisiteness and profundity to our culture.

Information:

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The whole Tang poetry and some poetry records