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The ancients often used vanilla beauty as a symbol of saints or beautiful ideals.

The beauty of fragrant grass

Yi's preface to Li Sao:

"The article" Li Sao "is based on" Poetry "and makes an analogy, so it is a good bird and herb with loyalty; Compare bad birds with smelly things; Spiritual beauty is comparable to a monarch. "

The original intention is that Qu Yuan's Lisao is based on the Book of Songs and uses different things as metaphors:

Use vanilla as a metaphor for loyal ministers, beautiful women as a metaphor for monarchs, and ugly things as a metaphor for treacherous men.

Later he used "vanilla beauty" as a metaphor for virtuous people.