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People in different periods in ancient China were beautiful, and their chubby bodies were different. What caused this difference?

The social environment in different periods is different. The beauty of fatness is mainly embodied in the Tang Dynasty. The idiom "Huan Shou" refers to Zhao in the Han Dynasty and Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty was not really fat, but rather plump. Because the Tang Dynasty was an extremely tolerant dynasty, and the rulers of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty all had ethnic origins. Li Shimin's grandfather is a lonely wish of Xianbei people, while Tang Gaozong's blood is only a quarter of that of Han people. And ethnic minorities are generally strong for burly, fat for beauty. So in the Tang Dynasty, from the royal family to the nobility, the whole attitude of advocating fat as beauty led to the whole country taking fat as beauty. Personally, I think it expresses the broad-minded and tolerant spirit of the Tang Dynasty.

The influence of social development. Even in modern times, parts of Africa still regard obesity as beauty. The reason is that under the local living conditions at that time, many people didn't even have enough to eat, yellow and thin. Under this condition, obesity means better living conditions. Just like China's greeting twenty years ago, the first sentence is, Have you eaten? What about now? The estimate is: haven't you lost weight yet?

Ancient "thin horse". Not a thin horse, but a thin singer. In ancient times, some people specially trained "thin horses" to sell to wealthy businessmen. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that businessmen indulge in lewdness and lack of yang, so when they choose thin singers, they will look masculine.

In the Tang Dynasty, I was wondering if it was because women were open-minded, so they were too thin to stay. In the Song Dynasty, thinness was beauty, because the emperor liked thinness. China was chubby and good-looking just after liberation, because it shows that you are healthy and love what you lack. Now everyone is rich and fat, which has been advertised as the bottom of the fat man's family, and thinness has become an aesthetic.