Modern aesthetics feel good to have double eyelids, why ancient single eyelid beauty is more popular?

Ancient Chinese aesthetics were not set in stone, and ancient beauties really did have more single eyelids. By the 20th century the traditional Chinese aesthetic standard of single eyelid beauty was also subverted. After the Opium War, Western culture flooded into China with the Qing government's opening of the country's gates, and Western aesthetic standards became popular in China.

Europeans and Americans belong to the Caucasian race, not only is the proportion of double eyelids greater than single eyelids, but also has always been single and double eyelids aesthetic. In this way the Chinese aesthetic standard has also changed. This standard mainly happened in the East in Paris Shanghai. in the first half of the 20th century, there was a kind of advertisement in Shanghai for women painted in Western style. Early paintings of beautiful women were traditional Chinese aesthetic concepts, with a predominance of slender eyes and single eyelids. However, in the later period, the physique became more athletic, with more double eyelids and big eyes. Hidden within this is a shift in aesthetic standards.

But if you look at the ancient Chinese paintings of women, all of the beauties painted there have single eyelids. This is mainly due to the human race, double eyelids and single eyelids are dominant and recessive symptoms respectively. If there is more fat in the upper eye, a crease is formed and the upper eye is covered to form mono-eyelid.

The world's major ethnic groups, whites and blacks are mostly double eyelids, while the yellow race is dominated by mono-eyelids, the main ethnic group of the Chinese, the Han, and most of the ethnic minorities belong to the Mongoloid ethnic group, but the composition of the Chinese is not a layer of the same. Before the Qin and Han dynasties, the Chinese people in the Yellow River basin as their main habitat were of a more pure Mongolian race.

This can also be verified by the Terracotta Warriors, whose figures all have single eyelids. This is typical of the Mongoloid race. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the structure of the Han ethnic group underwent some changes, and due to the invasion of the northern peoples, the proportion of double eyelids in the Han ethnic group also increased.