One day, I was eating in the staff cafeteria and heard a female colleague say: "Yesterday I spent more than 200 yuan to cut my hair short. My husband was very dissatisfied and said it was not for the sake of the old couple. , I have divorced you a long time ago." Another colleague said in a clear and loud baby voice: "Don't you know that men have a long-hair complex?"
This sentence is in my mind. After a few spins, the memory replayed in an instant: When I was a boy, I mostly dreamed of girls with flowing hair. After many blind dates, those girls were so far away from my dream lover that each time my burning heart quickly cooled down.
Long-haired beauty Zhang Lihua
In fact, the ancients seemed to be more obsessed with long hair than we modern people. There are many famous long-haired girls in history, such as the Empress Zhen of Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi, and Zhang Lihua, the beloved concubine of Chen Shubao, the Empress of Nanchen. They were all beauties with "long hair". "Taiping Yulan" records: "Looking up at his hair on the temples, I am delighted." Wei Zifu's hair spread out, shining like a waterfall, which immediately attracted the young emperor Han Wu Emperor.
The long-haired beauty Li Shi
During the reign of Emperor Ming of Jin Dynasty, the great Sima Huanwen took the daughter of Li Shi, the lord of Shu, as his concubine. Huan Wen's wife, Princess Kang, was so jealous that she wanted to kill Li with a knife. At that time, Mrs. Li was combing her hair in front of the window, her long hair hanging to the ground, and she was very graceful. Li looked at the murderous Princess Kang with an unusually calm expression: "With the country and family destroyed, there is no hope of living. It would be a relief to die early." After hearing this, Princess Kang threw the knife on the ground. Holding Li in his arms, he said, "I feel pity for you, let alone the old slave (Huan Wen)."
The long-haired beauty in "The Book of Songs"
Read the "Book of Songs" and you will know I discovered that there are many poems praising women for their dark and thick hair. Meng Jiao, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, also liked beautiful women's hairstyle with long hair piled up high on the temples as thin as cicada wings. His poem goes: "You are leaning against the wind with cicadas on your temples, and both shrike are flying eastward." The wonderful beauty of long-haired women has long been infiltrated. In classical poetry, it penetrates into men's life emotions. The most beautiful princess style with peach blossom face and cloud-like temples has infected modern people's aesthetics since ancient times.
To this day, I discovered that I also have a strong obsession with long hair that I can’t get rid of. That year, when I saw my future wife at a glance, my restless heart finally settled: with her gentle eyes, bright face, and long hair that hung neatly on my shoulders, she and I dreamed The girls in it instantly became one. I said in my heart: “This is her.
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