China ancient lipstick is a mixture of cinnabar, oil and spices.
In ancient China, lipstick cosmetics were called oral fat or lip fat. In the article "Fat" in Jijiupian of Han Dynasty, it is explained that "Fat refers to facial fat and lip fat, both of which are smooth and greasy".
To paraphrase the present saying, that is to say, fat refers to cream and lip balm. At that time, the composition of fat was mainly extracted from animal fat such as bovine pith, combined with spices such as clove, storax and patchouli. Therefore, Chinese characters will use "fat" to refer to this kind of cosmetics, and cinnabar and other ingredients will be added to the oral fat.
Oral fat flourished in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but flourished in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, lipstick already had different colors. For example, it was mentioned in the Secret Recipe of Foreign Taiwan that lipsticks at that time were divided into purple lip fat, flesh lip fat and vermilion lip fat, just like different colors in lipsticks today.
Method of putting oral fat in full bloom:
One is tubular. As mentioned in the famous Biography of Yingying, Zhang Sheng brought Yingying a gift from Beijing, one of which was five inches of oral fat. In fact, it happened a long time ago that boys gave lipsticks to girls to please them.
the other kind is in a box. One of the most common is clam shell, which was considered as a natural container for cosmetics in ancient times. In the Tang Dynasty, there was even a clam-shaped rouge box made of gold and silver. clam oil should be regarded as the last form of this kind of cosmetics in China.
Jinghong in traditional Japanese makeup is also placed among clams. Others are placed in boxes made of various materials, such as magnetic boxes or jade boxes. For example, there is a detail in A Dream of Red Mansions that Pinger was scolded and cried by Xi 'an, and then Baoyu sent her to Yi Hong Yuan to mend her makeup, and the rouge she used was put in a white jade box and steamed with flower dew, which was unusually bright and sweet.