Regrettably, due to objective reasons, the beauty of the past is no longer a blessing. However, today's people can learn about the aesthetics of the ancients from a large number of literary works, such as poems, and speculate on the emergence of ancient peerless beauty.
If you want to talk about poetry, you can't help but mention the Book of Songs.
The Book of Songs is China's first collection of poems, which contains more than 300 poems from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Formerly known as "Poetry", also known as "Poetry 300", it was regarded as a Confucian classic in the Han Dynasty, and its history was called "The Book of Songs". The book is divided into three parts: wind, elegance and praise. Many poems describing beauty are based on this, such as:
"A Brief Introduction to Nan Zhou": "My Fair Lady, a Gentleman is a Gentleman."
"Gentle and graceful" is "a beautiful mind and a dignified appearance". "Shu" refers to pure and kind conduct, and "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: Shu is good. In the words of modern people, this poem about women is "temperament-oriented" and "paying attention to the beauty of the soul", rather than favoring the appearance of flowers and pure jade.
Taifeng Jingnv: Jingnv Wan Qi and Jingnv Wan Qi. Here, "Jing" is interpreted as "demure" and "Shu" as "beauty". Shuo Wen Jie Zi says "Shu" is beauty, and Kangxi Dictionary says "Shu means beauty for women". "Winning" means "looking good".
Zheng Feng has a lesbian car: "There is a lesbian car, Yan Rushun Hua" and "There is a lesbian car, Yan Rushun Ying".
Bixing, that is, metaphor, is a common artistic technique in the Book of Songs. Comparing beauty with flowers is a long tradition of China's poetry.
The "Shunhua" and "Shunying" on the lesbian bus are hibiscus flowers. Flowers are bright and beautiful, and it is very suitable to be used as a metaphor for women. But there are also some sentences in this poem, such as "beauty is beautiful" and "virtue does not forget" It can be seen that in addition to appearance, the Book of Songs also attaches great importance to women's manners and morality.
"Zheng Fengye Creeps with the Creep": "The wild creeps with the creep, and there is no dew. There is a person who is beautiful, young and graceful. " A girl with fine eyes is as lovely as a creeping weed with dew.
In addition to flowers and plants, the Book of Songs often uses "jade" as a metaphor for beautiful women and gentlemen, such as "calling men to die in the wild" and "having women like jade".
Jade is noble, and its tradition of metaphor for beauty and gentleman has lasted for thousands of years. Later generations of The West Chamber and A Dream of Red Mansions all used "flawless jade" to describe people with outstanding looks.
At the same time, jade is also moist, such as "Qin", "Speaking as a gentleman, moist as jade". Elegant and refined, honest and pure, both internal and external, gentle and polite, it is "jade". This aesthetic view conforms to the Confucian "golden mean", so it is no wonder that The Book of Songs can become a Confucian classic.
The description of women in the above examples is abstract. The most concrete work about beauty in The Book of Songs is Feng Wei's Shuo Ren, in which Shuo Ren is beautiful and gorgeous, with soft hands, firm skin, lingering collar and gnarled teeth. From this poem, it is not difficult to see what the beauty in the era of the Book of Songs looks like:
First of all, "Shuo,