-Excerpt from Song Yu's Ode to the Disciple
Looking back and smiling, the powder and paint of the Sixth Palace faded into nothingness.
-Yang Yuhuan from Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow.
The mouth is not ordered but contains Dan, and the eyebrows are horizontal and blue.
Such as tracing, such as slimming, I am afraid of rain clouds. Every gesture is very charming and lovely.
Pale eyebrows are like autumn water, and jade muscles follow the breeze.
Xi Wang Shiyong Wei
Since beauty is respected throughout the empire, Xi Shi Jiu Ning Wei? Washing clothes by the lake in the south at dawn, and in the palace in the north that night, there was a great lady: one day she was humble, no different from others, and the next day she was promoted, and everyone praised her. What's more, she won't powder her face with her own hands. Without wearing Luo's clothes, your pet is also charming, blinding him away from wisdom. The girls who washed silk beside her were all left at a distance from her chariot. Thanks to the neighbor's son, effective.
Embroidered curtain lotus smiled,
Leaning against the sweet cheeks of the duck,
Oh, I don't know
Soft, skin solidified, collar like a salamander, teeth like a rhinoceros, a cicada's head is a moth's eyebrow, she smiled and looked forward to it. -from the book of songs