Crush rouge, roses, gardenia or any red flowers finely, filter the residue with fine sand, dry the juice, and add a little osmanthus oil to make rouge.
Rouge is also written as "Zangzhi", "Yanzhi" and "Yanzhi". It is a red pigment used by ancient women for makeup, mostly for smearing cheeks or lips. It has been used by women who love beauty for a long time in our country.
Red and blue flowers were originally used to make women’s makeup pigments and were an invention of the Huns. The second volume of Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Notes" of the Western Jin Dynasty said: "The Yanzhi has leaves like thistles and flowers like dandelions. When it came out of the west, the natives dyed it and called it Yanzhi. The Chinese called it red and blue." Sima Zhen of the Tang Dynasty " "Historical Records Suoyin" quoted "Xi Chishu Teeth and the Book of the King of Yan" as saying in more detail: "There are red and blue colors at the foot of the mountain. Can you tell with your steps? The northerners explored the flowers and dyed them crimson yellow, and used the bright and fresh flowers on them to make smoke limbs. Women People will use it as color.
"Dunhuang Song Ci. Liu Qingniang": "So it is lightly dyed with rouge, and the lips are painted with a light sandal color. "Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, also wrote poems about rouge, such as "Rain on the Qujiang River": "The forest flowers are wet with rain, and the water lilies are carried by the wind and grow green. "Poets are also very concerned about this kind of cosmetics and have written about it in their poems a long time ago.