Chinese makeup development history from ancient times originated through those dynasties?

Makeup is a female beauty technique with a long history. In ancient times, people painted their faces and bodies with a variety of colors and oils to represent the incarnation of the gods, as a way to get rid of evil spirits and to show their status and existence. Later on, this kind of dressing gradually changed to have a decorative meaning, on the one hand, it was necessary to change the face and attire to express the characters in the play when acting; on the other hand, it emerged due to practicality.

For example, the ancient Egyptians painted ink colors around the eyes so that the eyes can avoid the harm of direct sunlight; on the body coated with perfumed oils to protect the skin from sunlight and insects, and so on. Nowadays, make-up, on the other hand, has become a means to satisfy people's quest for their own beauty, and its main purpose is to increase natural beauty by using cosmetics and applying artificial techniques, for both men and women.

"Lipstick powder daize of makeup, ancient China, has long been practiced. Until the Tang Dynasty, the humanities bright, many concubines, so that the six palaces of powder, competing beauty. So the pile a, more colorful. Japanese Heian Dynasty women's make-up, the origin is also due to the Tang Dynasty, now divided into buns, forehead yellow, eyebrow, powder, mouth fat and so on."

Love of beauty is human nature, as early as the primitive period, mankind began to use some special things to decorate themselves, make themselves more beautiful. Archaeologists have found beautiful beads made of small stones, shells or animal teeth for decoration on the sites of primitive human beings; traces of beauty make-up have been found on cave murals. Knowing something about the past may be good for your life!

It is said that the trend of eyebrow painting started in the Warring States, before there were specific materials for eyebrow painting, women used burnt willow branches and applied them to their eyebrows. The materials used by ancient women to draw eyebrows changed with the times. The earliest material used for eyebrow painting was dai (黛), a black mineral also known as shidai (石黛).

Before painting, the stone dai must first be placed on the stone inkstone grinding, so that it becomes powder, and then add water and blend. Grinding the stone stone inkstone in the Han tombs have been found, indicating that this cosmetic in the Han Dynasty has been in use. In addition to stone dai, there are copper dai, green bird's head dai and conch dai. Copper dai is a chemical substance in the form of patina. Green Bird's Head Dai is a dark gray material for painting eyebrows, which was imported from the West during the North and South Dynasties.

The conch dai is a material for women's eyebrow painting in the Sui and Tang dynasties, produced in Persia, which is a kind of dai block that has been processed and manufactured into various specified shapes. It can be used by dipping it in water without grinding it, and it is also called "graphite" or "eyebrow ink" because its appearance and production process are similar to that of ink ingots used in calligraphy and painting.

During the Song Dynasty, the use of ink for drawing eyebrows became more widespread, and women rarely used shidai. On the production method of eyebrow ink, Song notes are also described, for example, "Things Lin Guangji" said: "a real hemp oil, more with the heart of the lamp rubbed tightly, the oil will be placed in the water burned, covered with a small vessel, so that the smoke condenses on, and then get swept down. Before three days ago, with the brain musk don't dip a little oil, pour into the smoke and mix well, the ink can be more than paint. A method of spinning cut hemp oil lamp flower, with especially good."

This smoky eyebrow material, to the end of the Song and early Yuan, was beautifully named "eyebrow set incense round". After the Yuan Dynasty, the court women's eyebrows of the dai, all choose the west of Beijing Mentougou District Jaitang specialties of the eyebrow stone, to the Ming and Qing dynasties also so. To the early 1920s, with the eastern gradient of western culture, Chinese women's cosmetics have undergone a series of changes. Eyebrow-drawing materials, especially rod-shaped eyebrow pencils and chemically-modified black grease.

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Ancient Development of Makeup Powder:

On the production method of rice flour, there is a more detailed record in the "Qimin Yaojiao," the most primitive method of making flour, is to use a round bowl of flour to hold the fat and rice juice, so that it precipitates, and then make a kind of White powder greasy "powder Ying", and then placed in the sun exposure, after drying the powder can be used to make up the face. Because of this production method is simple, so in the folk widely circulated until the Tang and Song dynasties, people make rice flour, still use this method.

There is also a kind of fragrant powder, is made of corn, the same as above, just add a variety of spices at the end, it will become a fragrant powder, because the corn itself contains a certain degree of viscosity, so it is not easy to use it on the face, not easy to fall off. Compared with the rice flour, lead powder production process is much more complex, from the early literature, the so-called lead powder, in fact, contains a variety of chemical elements such as lead, tin, aluminum, zinc, etc., initially used for women's make-up of lead powder has not been dehydrated, so more of a paste.

Since the Han Dynasty, the lead powder is made into powder or solid shape by drying water. Because of its delicate texture, color and white, and easy to store, so loved by women, over time to replace the status of rice flour.

In addition to simple rice flour, lead powder, the ancient women's makeup powder there are a lot of names, such as in the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties period, the courtier Duan Qiaoxiao rice flour, Hu powder mixed with sunflower seed juice, synthesized into the "purple powder". Tang dynasty palace to fine corn made of "welcome butterfly powder". In the Song Dynasty, there are gypsum, talcum, mussel powder, wax fat, shell musk and motherwort and other materials blended into the "Jade Peach Powder".

In the Ming Dynasty, there are white jasmine kernel extracted from the "Pearl Powder", as well as with the hairpin flowers and Hu powder made of jade hairpin shape of the "Jade Hairpin Powder". In the Qing Dynasty, there were "pearl powder" processed from pearls and "stone powder" ground from talc and other fine stones, and so on. There are also famous for its origin, such as Zhejiang's "Hangzhou powder" (also known as official powder); Jingzhou's "Fanyang powder"; Hebei's "fixed powder"; Guilin's "Gui powder" and so on, the color of the powder is also increased by the original white color for a variety of colors, and mixed with a variety of precious spices, so that it has a more fascinating charm.

Nearly half a century, with the deepening of archaeological work, a large number of makeup powder in kind have been unearthed, some held in a delicate bowl, some installed in the silk bag, the most characteristic is unearthed from Fuzhou, Fujian, the Southern Song Dynasty makeup powder, was made into a specific shape of the powder block, round, square, quadrilateral, octagonal and sunflower petal-shaped, etc., the top is also embossed with concave and concave plum blossom, orchid, as well as the lotus pattern.

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