I believe that everyone must have read many ancient poems and songs praising women in Chinese classes from childhood to adulthood. From the earliest "Book of Songs" to "A Dream of Red Mansions", one of the four famous works of the Qing Dynasty. For thousands of years, everyone can't help but praise beautiful things, especially when they see beautiful women, literati and writers are not stingy with their ink. Especially using rhythmic poems to praise women for their elegant, interesting and artistic reading. Let me share with you some of the ways ancient people praised girls.
1. The beauty of the artistic conception in the hazy
The jianjia is green and the white dew is frost; the so-called beauty is on the side of the water.
The famous chapter "Jian Jia" in "The Book of Songs" is such an article. There is not one sentence in the whole poem to describe the beauty's beauty, but people can feel the man's deep affection for her. This poem is also considered to be a love poem about a man pursuing a woman.
2. Use metaphors to highlight the beauty of the protagonist.
The clouds are like clothes, the flowers are like faces, the spring breeze is blowing the threshold and the dew is thick.
This is one of the Yuefu poems in "Qingping Diao" written by Li Bai to praise Concubine Yang's beauty. Yun wanted to compare with her clothes, and Hua'er wanted to compare with her appearance. Using extremely beautiful things such as clouds and flowers to describe a woman's beauty arouses endless reverie. The metaphor is also the most common way used by ancient people to praise a woman's beauty.
It is also often seen in Dream of Red Mansions, such as the description of Lin Daiyu: "When she is quiet, she is like a beautiful flower shining on the water, and when she moves, she is like a weak willow supporting the wind. The heart is more apertured than Gan, and the disease is like Xizisheng Three points.”
3. Use specific data to prove the woman’s beauty.
Looking back and smiling, the sixth palace has no color.
These are two sentences from another poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" written by Li Bai about Concubine Yang. The use of multiple numerals such as one, one hundred, six, and countless more intuitively expresses Yang Guifei's beauty. Although it is a bit exaggerated, such praise is not exaggerated at all for Yang Guifei, who is uniquely favored by the emperor.