Poetry praising female beauty is one of the enduring themes in the history of China's poetry. These poems express the author's unique feelings about the beauty of women and eulogize the different beautiful forms and charms of women.
1. Beauty of skin
There are many poems praising the beauty of women's skin in China's ancient poems. "This beautiful woman gave up her poor life and couldn't see anything during the day" is a poem used by the poet Wang Anshi to describe his wife's appearance, expressing his praise for her fair skin.
Xue Tao, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty, also described the white and tender beauty of women's skin.
2. The beauty of eyebrows
Charming eyebrows are widely used by poets to eulogize the theme of female beauty. For example, in history, there is "the emperor of China, eager for beauty, may shake an empire, who has been on the throne for many years and has never found it;" Until a child of the Yang family grew up in the inner room, almost before she grew up, and no one knew her. However, due to the gift of heaven and the undisguised grace, he was finally elected as a member of the royal family one day; If she just turns her head and smiles, there are a hundred spells, and the powder and paint of six palaces fade into nothing "is a chapter of beautiful rhyme and lofty artistic conception."
3. Beauty of hair
There are many poems in China's poems praising women's hair. In The Portrait of Princess Gaoyang, a woman's hair is described as "a two-color phoenix perches on her temples and looks around at a beautiful smiling moth", which is compared to a graceful two-color phoenix.
4. The beauty of sound
Ancient poets not only expressed their amazement at the beauty of women's looks, but also praised women through their voices. Bai Juyi's Song of Eternal Sorrow in the Tang Dynasty described the charming singing and cheerful game sounds in the boudoir.
5. Physical beauty.
There was a famous poem "Three Little Women" in ancient China, which described the graceful posture of women in the sound of musical instruments. It is mentioned in the article that the fingers are interlocked, like cutting and flying, like blowing and rushing, thinking freely, unrestrained and seemingly tired. "
6. The beauty of nature
Finally, there are many poets who praise the beauty of women through natural scenery. For example, in Du Fu's "Looking at Yue" in the Tang Dynasty, "the mountain blue line is in the north and the water white song is in the east. Here you must leave me and float away, like a loose aquatic plant for hundreds of miles. " Use natural scenery such as "green hills" and "white water" to describe the women I admire in my mind.
These are some examples of ancient Chinese poems praising the beauty of women. These poems fully reflect the worship of women and beauty in China culture, and also reflect the love and pursuit of beauty in ancient China. This attitude and view have influenced and continued to this day.