It is said that thrush began in the Warring States period. Before there were any specific thrush materials, Han women burned willow branches and painted them on their eyebrows (strange makeup, preferably modern). The materials used by ancient Han women to thrush changed with the development of the times. According to literature, the earliest thrush material is Dai, a black mineral, also known as "Shi Dai". Before painting, Shi Dai must be ground into powder on the inkstone and then mixed with water. Many Han tombs have found ink stones of the Mohist dynasty, which shows that this cosmetic has been used in the Han Dynasty. In addition to stone wear, there are bronze wear, bluebird head wear and screw wear. Copper generation is a chemical substance similar to copper rust. Green finch head is a kind of dark gray thrush material, which was introduced from the western regions in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Spiral Dai is a thrush material for Han women in Sui and Tang Dynasties, which was produced in Persia. It is a kind of Dai block with various prescribed shapes after processing and manufacturing. When it is used, it can only be dipped in water without grinding. Because its appearance and manufacturing process are similar to those of ink ingots for painting and calligraphy, it is also called "graphite" or "thrush ink". Thrush ink was widely used in Song Dynasty, but Shi Dai was rarely used by Han women. There are also ways to make thrush ink in the notes of the Song Dynasty. For example, "The Stone Forest" said: "There is a real sesame oil lamp, which is closely rubbed with many lamp holders. Put the oil lamp in the water, light it, cover it with a small device, let the smoke condense and sweep it down. Soak musk deer in less oil three days in advance, pour it into smoke and mix well. The ink can exceed the paint. A method of rotary shearing sesame oil snuff is particularly preferred. This smoked thrush material was euphemistically called "thrush gathers fragrance" in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. After the Yuan Dynasty, women in the court all chose the eyebrow stone of Zhaitang in Mentougou District, west Beijing, and so did the Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the early 1920s, with the spread of western culture, a series of changes had taken place in the cosmetics of Han women in China. Thrush materials, especially rod-shaped eyebrow pencil and chemically modulated black grease, have been used up to now because of their simple use and portability.
Thrush is the most popular and common makeup method in China, which was produced in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan wrote in The Songs of the South: "White and white, black and white, only for Fang Ze." "Black" means using a black thrush. In the Han dynasty, thrush became more and more common, and the more you painted, the better you looked. "Miscellanies of Xijing" wrote: "Sima Xiangru's wife, Wen Jun, has an eyebrow like a distant mountain. She painted a distant eyebrow when she was young." This means drawing your eyebrows long, curved and green, as beautiful as a distant mountain. Later, it was developed to use jade thrush, which was also very popular in the court. In the Song Dynasty, Yan Dao Ji described in "Six Commandments": "Come to Cuimei Palace late and learn from the distant mountains skillfully." "The Story of Mizhuang Terrace" said, "Wei Wudi ordered the imperial court to draw blue eyebrows and eyebrows, which were very long and called fairy makeup." Instead, the use of black eyebrows has become a new thing in the popularity of Cui eyebrows. In China's Notes on Ancient and Modern Times, it is said that Yang Guifei "wears heavy makeup and black eyebrows". At that time, people regarded this as a new way of makeup, and called it "new makeup". No wonder Xu Ning wrote in his poem: "When the new makeup is thrown away, the six palaces fight for the black eyebrows."
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the popular thrush was wide and short, shaped like laurel leaves or moth wings. In Yuan Zhen's poem "Don't draw long eyebrows and short eyebrows", and Li He's poem also said that "the new laurel is like a flying moth eyebrow". In order to make the broad eyebrows not appear dull, Han women will even smudge the color of the eyebrows when drawing them, which is called "smudged eyebrows". Another is to draw the eyebrows very thin, which is called "thin eyebrows". Therefore, Bai Juyi has a sentence of "Qingdai Fine Eyebrows" in Shang Yang White-haired Man, and there is also a description of "petals like her face and willow leaves like her eyebrows" in Song of Eternal Sorrow. By the time of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty, the forms of thrush were more colorful, including Yuanyang eyebrow, Hill eyebrow, Wufeng eyebrow, Sanfeng eyebrow, Beaded eyebrow, Moon eyebrow, Split eyebrow, Smoked eyebrow, Blowing eyebrow and Inverted eyebrow. There are so many paintings on the eyebrows alone, which shows that the ancients have a strong love for beauty.