China's understanding and view of human beauty in traditional aesthetics.

China's traditional aesthetic thought contains rich humanistic aesthetics.

Modern human aesthetics holds that formal beauty is the central link and object of human aesthetics. And China, a traditional ancient physiognomy that has lasted for thousands of years, is devoted to appearance aesthetics! It shows that the ancients attached great importance to the aesthetics of appearance. Ancient physiognomy takes "Yin-Yang and Five Elements" as the key link, and describes the balance and harmony of the basic facial combination structures such as nose, forehead, eyebrow, mouth and zygomatic face, which is the condition for the beauty of "five senses". It is also called the balance of the left and right facial features and zygomatic cheeks on the central axis of the nose, which is the basic schema of facial beauty. It is also pointed out that a certain proportion of harmony is the essence of the beauty of human appearance: "Face is a tool for people, and …… three talents cooperate with feelings". "Three talents" is also called "three stops"; The three stopping points on the surface are symmetrical (each accounting for 1/3), with superior appearance and beautiful appearance. Only when the proportion of three stops in the body is moderate can balance and harmony be achieved, which belongs to human beauty. At the same time, it emphasizes the aesthetic requirements of human body's harmonious posture, such as the aesthetic comprehension of facial eyebrows, eyes and mouth, and the aesthetic comprehension of waist should be combined with the aesthetics of walking, sitting and moving back and forth, "sitting like a clock, standing like a pine, walking like the wind" and so on. The above-mentioned neat, balanced, harmonious, symmetrical and proportional traditional aesthetic tastes and thoughts of human body coincide with the theory that the formal beauty of human body is the unity of proportion, symmetry, balance, color and diversity in modern medical aesthetics. Up to now, it still has guiding significance to the practice of traditional Chinese medicine beauty.

China's traditional human body aesthetics has a distinct standard of distinguishing beauty from ugliness, which is no less than the human body aesthetic standard in modern medical aesthetics! For example, during the Warring States period, it was put forward that "one point is too long, one point is too short, the pastel painting is too white, and the Zhu painting is too red" (Song Yu's "The Disciple"); For another example, the standard to explain the beauty of women's human nature from the aesthetic point of view should be "graceful and prudent, feminine beauty, a husband can be thick and slim, and not just take his heart." Restraint is especially good for longevity and longevity. " "Those who are muscular, with small eyes, white and thin eyes, black and clear eyes, smooth faces and gentle voices want to lose the bones of their limbs, and those who are meaty but not big, ..." (The Secret of Jade House) "The flesh and blood are clear and the spirit is pure" (Hongzhi's summary) "The quality of women is quiet and motionless." It is believed that the inner beauty of women should have gentle appearance, kind and kind quality, cautious and prudent personality and peaceful mentality. In terms of physical beauty, we should be tall and slim, slender, with a small and symmetrical skeleton, beautiful curves, fresh and tender skin, gentle breathing, soft and implicit voice language, bright eyes, black and white, thick and black hair, strong and handsome body, full limbs and joints, and coordinated proportion. What a precious human aesthetic standard "both in form and spirit"! On the other hand, "if the wicked looks like a woman with unkempt appearance and sore throat, her teeth are ringing, her mouth is big and her nose is high, her eyes are fine and turbid, her mouth is like temples, her joints are high, her hair is yellow, and she has little meat ..." (The Secret of Jade House). From the aesthetic point of view, this is the taboo of choosing a spouse and getting married because of poor physical quality or bad temperament and conduct.