Which Chinese dynasty(s) had men who were feminine for their beauty?

Men in the Wei and Jin dynasties pursued a clean-cut, thin, slim waist in their figures, known as the so-called show-bone clear image. The Jin Dynasty and modern society in some ways have an implicit convergence, reading the history of the Jin Dynasty, sometimes make people feel that the current popular fashion, often also ancient, never like the new new people think that completely cut off the tradition, create their own heaven and earth.

The beautiful men of the Jin Dynasty were generally feminine and beautiful, more creamy in appearance according to today's terminology. And these beautiful men were generally more mouthy and talkative, and their favorite entertainment was chatting; silent, black-faced men were not welcome in the Jin Dynasty.

The people of Wei and Jin valued people's looks and demeanor very highly. Turning over the "Book of Jin", any mention of celebrities, seldom fail to mention a couple of sentences of this person's looks and elegance. According to the evaluation standard at that time, the first thing to be white, praising the man, but also tend to use the jade to praise its fairness.

Many jade men, or men who wanted to be jade men, insisted on powdering their faces. The powdering trend was quite popular, and according to the saying of the time, these men were "powdering their faces and scratching their heads".

Early, the masculine beauty of the mighty

The Zuo Zhuan (左传)records one of the earliest examples in China of a woman choosing her husband herself. Proposing marriage to the same beautiful woman, two males had very different self-expressions. Zi Ci (Gongsun Hei) enters in full splendor and dresses up nobly and flamboyantly. Zi Nan (Gong Sun Chu), on the other hand, enters in military attire, shoots left and right, and rides out superbly, displaying military valor.

The sister of Xu Wu's criminal finally chose Zi Nan (Gong Sun Chu) as her husband, and her masculine beauty overcame her ostentatious beauty, and her male nature won her heart.

The sister of Xu Wu said, "A husband and a wife should be like a man and a woman should be like a woman," meaning that her judgment was not only based on women's instincts in choosing a spouse, but also showed a full understanding of the roles of men and women in society.

This kind of depiction and praise of masculine beauty exists in a large number of canonical books and literary works. Confucianism often emphasizes that "the rich and powerful cannot be lustful, the poor and lowly cannot be moved, and the mighty and powerful cannot be subdued; this is what is meant by a great man," and that "the three armies can take away the marshal, but the horseman cannot take away the will."

The above emphasis on the conduct of the "scholar" also implies the affirmation of Confucianism on the masculinity of men. In the tomb murals of the Warring States period and the two Han dynasties, there are many paintings depicting men, such as the painting "Harnessing the Dragon" from the tomb of Chu in the Warring States period.

Picture painted a man overriding the dragon body, long body, forehead high, eyebrows thick black and curved, people in the beard, Liaoning Jinxian Yingchengzi Han Tomb Mural, the man with thick eyebrows, big eyes and high nose, beard, face is rectangular, stout body. The men in both paintings are characterized by their masculinity.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia--Men of Beauty (Men of Good Looks)