In the eyes of ancient China pseudo-Taoists, their attitude towards beauty is always contradictory and complicated. Deep down, they are full of fear and hostility to beautiful women, who are regarded as the bane, and often pass their mistakes and failures on to the beauty powder, get rid of their personal connections and end up easily. If beauty has nothing to do with disaster, it is not in line with historical facts. However, there are a few beautiful women in the history of China, which has caused several national disasters and brought profound disasters to the nation and people. Such as Lv Zhi and Cixi.
In feudal society, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism, women's social status has always been extremely low, subordinate to men. Confucius once taught his disciples: "Only women are hard to raise. If you are near, you will feel inferior, and if you are far away, you will complain. " In the eyes of emperors, beauty always ranks behind the country. With the supreme imperial power, there is naturally the beauty of the world. This simple truth is understood by most emperors. Of course, there have been a few romantic emperors in the history of China, who only want beautiful women, not rivers and mountains. The vast majority of rational emperors, heroes and heroines, in some important life choices related to Jiangshan and beautiful women, usually jump on the imperial power without hesitation and kick the beautiful women down the abyss!
Red is the color of rouge, and face is face. Ancient women moistened their faces with rouge, which looked like red faces from a distance, so they were called beauties.
Its earliest source can not be found now. Looking through the ancient books, we can only see that the earliest book, Hanshu Volume 97, Biography of Consoles 67, is "exciting and anxious, full of beauty and prosperity." The beauty generation here refers to Li Furen, the favorite concubine of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty.
There is also a kind of "beauty is unlucky". It is popular to say that a woman's life is thin, and the old saying goes that a beautiful woman dies young or her husband is unhappy.
I was unlucky to marry Liu Yanming, but I met Zhang Ruiqing by chance.
There is also a song "One Anger is a Beauty" from: Crying for the loss of all six armies, rushing to the crown is a beauty. For the story of Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan.