From the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, what changes did the ancient women's lip makeup have?

Beauty is an eternal topic. From ancient times to the present, women who love beauty always lead the aesthetics and trends of the times. A few days ago, Mulan's makeup became a hot search, and everyone began to wonder what the real ancient costume looked like. Today, let's take a look at how women's lip makeup changed from the Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Let's look at the Han Dynasty first. The characteristics of women's lip makeup in Han dynasty are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, like a triangle. As can be seen from some existing paintings and calligraphy, the effect of this lip makeup is that it looks like there is only one point on the upper lip, which is very distinctive. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the country entered a period of recuperation after years of war, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty advocated the thrift of the whole people and the beauty of virtue, which was also the background of the popularity of women's light makeup.

By the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people's aesthetics had been greatly improved. Not only women loved beauty, but even men had the atmosphere of whitewashing peace. At that time, the popular lip makeup was fan-shaped lip, which was more characteristic of the times than the triangular lip in Han Dynasty. Careful people will also find that lip makeup in this period seems to have similarities with lip biting makeup popular today, and it seems that fashion is indeed a reincarnation.

In the Tang Dynasty, women painted their lips in various ways. The most popular is the butterfly shape, which looks playful and beautiful. At that time, women also tried their best to make up, and different makeup styles had their own characteristics, which reflected the diversity and openness of the culture in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Since the Song Dynasty, women's makeup gradually paid attention to introversion, and clever oval lip makeup was popular in the Song Dynasty, but in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's lip makeup only changed slightly, paying more attention to modesty and inner beauty.