The first time I've ever seen a man in the world, I've seen a man in the world, and I've seen him in the world.

Previously, the tomato gentleman had for you to inventory a period of "the world's 100 most handsome face".

In the American website "TC Candler" selected "the world's most handsome", the list of European and American men, almost all of them are like this:

And the Asian male stars, but almost all of them are like this:

Whether the list of the judges, the judges of the list of the "world's most handsome", the list of the "world's most handsome", the list of the "world's most handsome" is not a good idea.

Whether the judges of this list are mostly men or women, it is clear that the aesthetic of the European and American men, most of them are strong muscles, handsome appearance, full of masculinity of the atmosphere.

But when it comes to the Asian side, especially from South Korea's Kim Tae-Hyung and Tian Ji-Guo, it's all about the feminine.

Some people believe that this is the "aesthetic invasion" of the West to the East, and is "de-masculinizing" the entire Eastern world.

After watching so many movies, Tomato Jun today, from the perspective of their own perception, to talk to you, the West prefers masculine men, while the East prefers "feminine little boy" reason.

Whether it's China, Japan, South Korea, or Vietnam, they are all part of the Confucian cultural circle, and the cultures of the East Asian countries are similar.

In traditional Chinese culture, the portrayal and description of male beauty has never been of the "muscular man" type.

In the Book of Songs, which is a collection of 300 poems, it is said that a gentleman is a beautiful man:

A beautiful description.

In traditional Chinese culture, gentleman is the highest title for a cultivated male, and "strong and powerful" has nothing to do with "like cutting, like polishing".

The highest ideal of the ancient Chinese male is to "cultivate oneself, rule the country, and level the world", and what is valued is talent and cultivation, not personal force.

The Song dynasty is the aesthetic to play to the extreme, whether it is masculine and militant or outstanding force, in the eyes of the intellectuals, is only "developed limbs, simple mind" only.

Look at the representatives of the beautiful men of ancient China, you know how it is.

Chinese history, the big handsome, was used as a standard and with the idiom "look like Pan An" to describe the handsome Pan An , is the Western Jin Dynasty writer, he is characterized by the "beauty of the instrument, less to talent fame. "

Another equally handsome man of Chinese history, Jikang, is described as "Xiao Xiao Su Su, Shuang Lang Qingju".

The Warring States period literary scholar Song Yu, was on a par with Pan An.

Historically, Song Yu was so handsome that one of his neighbors, a woman of great beauty, secretly climbed the wall and watched him for three years, which is the origin of the story of "neighboring women peeping at the wall".

The idioms "white snow in the spring" and "high and low" all come from the person of Song Yu.

Let's take a look at Cao Xueqin's portrayal of Jia Baoyu:

The description of Baoyu in this section of Dream of Red Mansions #3 is practically unchanged and can be used on women.

With the traditional culture of describing and inculcating handsome men, plus the world of literati's scholarly ideals, the shaping of men's aesthetics, and therefore slowly stereotyped.

Meanwhile, the West is different.

The history of Europe is basically a history of war, from the Roman Empire to the Classical era, from the Middle Ages to the Wars of Religion, from being trampled by the Mongol Horsemen to the Renaissance, and then to the modern era of World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, Europe has never stopped.

Europe doesn't have our Confucian one-size-fits-all culture, and the religious beliefs and ruling classes were different in each period.

Europeans are aggressive by nature, and martial arts is their nature, and they mostly take force and conquest as their highest achievement and ideal, and those with high force can get more social resources and have higher social status.

So we see that most of the gods in the Greek Mythology are powerful and aggressive.

The king of the gods, Zeus, was no exception, and winning the Battle of Titan was just a matter of redistributing power and resources, while Zeus himself, in addition to his robust appearance, was also a very horny deity, with many lovers and illegitimate children. fertility cult, and on the other hand their subconscious allocation of resources by the victor.

European Renaissance sculpture, too, does nothing to disguise the European predilection for masculinity, robustness, strength, and stature in the male aesthetic.

The difference in aesthetics between the Orient and Europeans is still essentially due to the difference in physiology, and there is a big gap between Asians and Westerners.

Because of the physiological structure, nutritional structure, living habits, dietary differences and historical reasons and many other factors, the Oriental people, especially Asians, compared to Europe and the United States, the body is thin, small bones.

Europeans, on the other hand, are mostly tall, big-boned, muscular, and hairy.

Other than that, comparing the body shapes of Chinese and foreign martial arts superstars, we can see some clues.

We are all familiar with Johnson, who is 195cm tall and weighs 120 kilograms, and looks like a big, big man.

Wu Jing is 175cm tall and weighs about 75 kilograms, and the two stand together, looking very different.

Not to mention Johnson, the internationally renowned martial arts movie star, like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, ShanghART these, none of which is a short body weight is very light, each of which is a big man.

On the one hand, this is the result of "aesthetic" choice, because of the preference for muscular men, so the WWE's Johnson, Schwarzenegger, fitness will be selected by the audience to become a superstar.

On the other hand, it's also a matter of "aesthetic preference". Because of the physiological structure of Westerners, their aesthetics towards men will of course emphasize their own characteristic preferences.

Some people may argue that Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan were not internationally recognized, so why didn't they have the same size as Westerners?

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are famous more because of their movie work, they are famous because of their work first, not because they fit the Western aesthetic.

In addition, you may want to take a look at the body of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee when they were in their prime, although their heights were not high, but their bodies were full of tendons, full of masculinity, and such a body type is naturally favored by the Western audience.

On the contrary, in the choice of martial arts stars, the Chinese audience favors those who are handsome, athletic, stretchy, and handsome.

For example, in the early years of Jet Li, a national kung fu champion, in 1994 by a "Jingwu Heroes", so that the flat head of the popularity of the country.

And when Wu Jing debuted, especially in "Tai Chi Master", it was simply standard fresh meat.

Now 58 years old, Donnie Yen, only 169cm tall, in "Ip Man" with the actress playing his wife stood together, have to be half a head below her.

In the fight with Tyson, it is a direct collision of East and West on the male aesthetic.

It is undeniable that people's aesthetics are biased towards the characteristics of their own race, and Westerners naturally favor a taller and more robust body; while Easterners have a preference for elegance and a white face, which has been perpetuated from ancient times to the present day.

In pop culture, East Asian cultures, represented by the Korean wave, have an aesthetic that favors the "feminine style", which actually originated in Japan in the earliest days.

In Japan, there is a man named Kitagawa, known as the "godfather of boy groups", he founded the Janis Agency, a large number of packaged handsome male stars to become an idol, and this trend was popular in the country, and spread to South Korea. South Korea.

The ones who carried the feminine aesthetic forward were the SM, JYP, and YG entertainment companies in South Korea, which borrowed from Japan's Kitagawa's Janis Agency production method for their model, forming a male idol star-making model that standardized everything from the way they looked and dressed, to the stage style and makeup, and even their hairstyles.

With the expansion of the influence of the Korean Wave, this model is popular throughout Asia, from Japan to Thailand, from China and even Latin America, no one is immune.

Men's and women's groups have become a huge star-making industry chain, and these singing and dancing stars are packaged to reap the rewards of their fans' wallets, and the capital behind them has made a lot of money while this aesthetic culture has invaded Asia in its entirety.

From then on, male idols wearing earrings, heavy makeup, foundation, and colorful hair on stage became a trend, and more and more people, especially teenagers who are the main focus of the rice circle, have gradually been reshaped by the infiltration of such feminine aesthetics.

And they are the main force of the network, also control the network of mainstream aesthetic discourse, so we will see the ubiquitous "feminine aesthetic".

But the West is wary of this; their kids are mostly into comics, and superheroes in comics are often the opposite of boy bands in terms of aesthetics.

You look at Marvel's bevy of superheroes, from Team America to Thor, from the Hulk to Iron Man,

and even the female characters are quite masculine and fit, like Black Widow and Captain Marvel.

The same goes for DC's superheroes, not to mention Superman's muscular form and angular appearance,

Wonder Woman's Amazons, too, are warlike people, albeit all female.

And from Batman to King Neptune, from Cyborg to the Flash, it's all proper power aesthetics.

The influence of pop culture on modern aesthetics is huge, and it's a direct result of the fact that when it comes to the "most handsome face" contest, the standard of beauty in the West is the Western world's aesthetics of masculinity, and when it comes to Asia, it's the femininity of the Korean wave that's brought in automatically.

In fact, the aesthetics of this thing is diversified, there is no absolute beauty, there is no absolute ugly, most of them are different from each other.

And the Western aesthetic, there is no lack of face like clouds and moon of the fresh meat, just out of the Tang, simply is the template of the fresh meat.

When he was young, he was also very handsome.

Keanu Reeves young is very standard Asian face handsome,

Of course, there are also Sweet Tea, Alain Delon these bias feminine wind European and American male stars.

However, it seems that they all return to a European man with a long beard and a big belly.

There is also an interesting phenomenon, in the search engine with the English input "home man", more will see the strength of the European and American handsome.

But when you type "handsome man" in Chinese, the results are the opposite.

Perhaps this kind of aesthetic alienation has reached into big data's judgment of each of us.

(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial: Yiyi)

This is the first time we've seen this kind of aesthetic alienation.