What does it mean to say that a woman is a femme fatale?

A femme fatale means that beauty is the root of disaster.

2. Brief analysis

Beauty is a disaster: beauty is the root of disaster.

Red is the color of rouge, and Yan is the face; Ancient women moistened their faces with rouge, which looked like red faces from a distance, so they were called beauties. Its earliest source can not be found now. Looking through the ancient books, we can only see that the earliest book, Hanshu Volume 97, Biography of Consoles 67, is "exciting and anxious, full of beauty and prosperity."

The beauty generation here refers to Li Furen, the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Du Fu's poem "Memories of Pei Daozhou's handwriting in late autumn": "Memories of Wei Yongjia's parting ions, beautiful flowers reflecting flesh"; Cao Zhi's Meditation Poetry: "The beauty of heaven is a rotten demon, and beauty is a gorgeous streamer." Among them, the word "beauty" refers to the beauty's appearance, and later gradually evolved into the name of beauty.

"Misfortune" originally refers to Zhao and Zhao Hede sisters who were favored by Emperor Han Chengdi. According to the signed Biography of Flying Swallows, the sisters Zhao and Zhao Hede confused Han Chengdi and became the Empress and the Queen respectively. Dr. Fang Cheng exclaimed: "This disaster will also be put out!" According to the theory that the five virtues begin with the end, the Han Dynasty is regarded as a fire virtue, which means that Zhao Yanfei will bring the demise of the Han Dynasty. Later, because of "disaster", she called it a confused woman.