In ancient times, women's status was low, and often women deliberately shaped their bodies in order to cater to men's aesthetics. Therefore, the beauty of each dynasty has its own characteristics.
Beauty in Han Dynasty is characterized by weakness and elegance, and pays special attention to dressing up. In Peacock Flying Southeast, there is such a poem describing a woman in the Han Dynasty: it refers to cutting the root of an onion with Dani in her mouth. Chinese odyssey with thin steps. These four poems well explain the formal beauty of women in Han Dynasty. Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties, is a great beauty in the Han Dynasty, and the "wild goose" in "Falling Fish and Wild Goose" refers to her.
It is a well-known fact that women in the Tang Dynasty regarded being fat as beauty. According to historical records, the same is true. Graceful figure, rich, broad forehead, round face and fat figure, health was a kind of beauty that people appreciated at that time. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty was an open society, allowing women to bare their chests and arms. Well-developed, graceful and luxurious really responded to the characteristics of court women in that era. This has been well proved in the famous painting "The Picture of Zanhua Ladies" in the Tang Dynasty. Yang Yuhuan, one of the four beauties, is a model of fat beauties in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
From the Song Dynasty, women began to move towards the beauty of elegance and simplicity, mainly influenced by the image of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Therefore, most of the beautiful women in the Song Dynasty were weak, and the wind of foot binding began to sweep across the country. There is a poem about Li Shishi written by Qin Guan, in which two sentences are described as follows: "The distant mountains have long eyebrows and thin waist." This means that the beauty of the Song Dynasty is a good embodiment.
The Ming Dynasty began to pay attention to the overall beauty of women, from hairline, waist, feet to the whole body, further subdivided into eyebrows, eyes, lips and hands. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, a woman's beauty was not reflected by dressing up, she needed to have a natural beauty as a whole. The famous Eight Colors of Qinhuai is the representative of the beauties of that era.
The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty. Manchu court women in this era pay more attention to the embodiment of temperament, gorgeous clothes and the pursuit of elegance have become the remarkable characteristics of Manchu women in that era ~