"Dream of Red Mansions" also writes that there is a famous stone in the west, which can be used as the ink for thrush. A tool that means thrush is called Shi Dai, which is the representative of beauty. This is a way for Jia Baoyu to praise Lin Daiyu. Shi Dai is blue and ink. The ancients have a history of thousands of years, and there are different popular styles in different periods.
Zhang Chang thrush. This is a hint of love between husband and wife. Zhang Chang and his wife were childhood friends. They accidentally knocked their wife down on a stone, so her eyebrows were worn off for a while, and they didn't grow, which was not good-looking, so Zhang Chang often gave his wife thrush. It can be seen that Zhang Chang really cares about his wife, and takes pains to thrush. In ancient times, eyebrows symbolized people's love luck, and there was a saying of "attracting Qi Mei", which was a metaphor for the conjugal love between husband and wife.
Modern women usually shave their eyebrows into thin, curved willow eyebrows, and then paint them black with an eyebrow pencil. Ancient women removed all the long eyebrows and re-painted them. China women thrush existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. There is a poem "White powder and black powder, Shi Fangze's poem" in Chu Ci, which can explain that women painted thrush rouge in powder at that time. ? By the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, it was quite common to wear thrush. The Han dynasty explained the name: "Dai, Dai also; The eyebrows are gone, and this painting takes their place.