What was the Phoenix Eye in ancient China like?

The above picture shows the eye of the phoenix, one is the inner tip and outer width of this one, and the other is a golden parallelogram. . The upturned fox eye is the most popular eye. No matter what ancient aesthetics has always been based on single eyelid, it is very different from now. There are two famous pictures of ladies in the Tang Dynasty.

Big face, double chin, single eyelid, slender eyes

It's better than the current fashion, but it's different. Maid in Han Xizhai's banquet.

The five senses seem to have not changed much.

But the figure is obviously not as plump as that of the Tang Dynasty, and the double chin is gone.

The face seems to have changed from a round face to an oval face

It seems that women in Zhang Daqian's and Lin Fengmian's works in the early Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and even modern times all followed the ancient traditional views.

Yin Mingtang's "Wang Shu Palace Prostitute Map"

80% of the ancient Han people had single eyelids, which were beautiful until the Republic of China.

Both ancient ladies' paintings and Republic of China beauties were dominated by single eyelids, and they didn't turn to double eyelids until they were influenced by Europe and America. In addition, the sharp chin is influenced by Japan.

The single eyelid was described as clear as a wave of autumn water in ancient times.

In ancient times, double eyelids were not the mainstream, and they were beaten into Malay eyes. There are many double eyelids in Southeast Asia, but few single eyelids. In Guangdong, people with single eyelids are as rare as pandas.

Both whites and blacks have double eyelids. Single eyelids only exist in yellow people, but a large number of yellow people also have double eyelids, only in northern China. The north has been the birthplace of the Han nationality since ancient times. Therefore, it is ridiculous for Cantonese to call themselves Han Chinese. Do you know how to call single eyelid and double eyelid in ancient times?

Double eyelids-Malay eyes

Single eyelid-single eyelid was beautiful until the early years of the Republic of China. In the late Republic of China, European and American double eyelids gradually became popular.

Nowadays, China people generally evaluate beautiful women with exquisite figure, three-dimensional facial contour, big eyes and double eyelids, which is largely a westernized aesthetic. For example, before the Han Dynasty, the description of women's figure was rarely seen, and it was basically a facial description between the lines, and the posture of writing was also set off from the posture of clothing. Eyes are the core of facial aesthetics. The so-called "clever smile and beautiful eyes" and the word "Qian" use up all the charm of women's eyes. ?

Looking through the meticulous paintings of ladies in the past dynasties, we can see that a pair of slender and straight phoenix eyes (that is, the kind that flies on the outer corner of the eye) are basically the same characteristics as girls in Chinese painting. Emphasize exquisiteness in the collocation of five senses, such as lips: today, thick and plump lips are sexy, but in ancient times, on the contrary, cherry eloquence is crazy. At that time, girls not only didn't wear lipstick, but also deliberately put a little in the middle of their lips to create the illusion of a small mouth. ? It is a western aesthetic to be beautiful with a big chest, while China's traditional aesthetic is flat chest.

People in ancient China didn't like big breasts. Watching old movies in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, they are all flat-chested. I had to gird my chest at that time. In the early years of the Republic of China, Xiao Majia was also a corset, not counting the Tang Dynasty. The beautiful women painted on the pictures of ladies in past dynasties are basically single eyelids and flat faces. Probably the reason why the China lineage of the Han nationality was relatively pure at that time. Moreover, the traditional face of the Han people likes a round face, and it is later that the knife face is unified throughout the country.