Ancient Chinese Beauty Standards for Men

There were many beautiful men in ancient times, and one of the first to be repeatedly mentioned by later generations was Pan An. Let's take the standard of Pan An (also known as Pan Yue) to measure the beauty standard of men in ancient times.

1. Appearance

Pan An lived in the Western Jin Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which was a rare "era of beauty" in history, and the adoration for beautiful men was even stronger than today. At that time, people's aesthetic standards are different from the modern aesthetic: wide robes and big sleeves, tall and strong, fair skin, martial arts. According to the Southern Song Dynasty's Liu Yiqing's "Shishu Xinyao" (New Words on the World), "Pan Yue has a wonderful appearance and a good look. When I was young, I held a bomb out of the Luoyang Road, the women met, not even hand **** haunted." Said to mean Pan Yue posture is very beautiful, when he was young with a slingshot to the outskirts of the city of Luoyang excursions, the girls saw him, can't help but surround him to look at a few more eyes. One of the details in this is very interesting, that is, Pan An holding a slingshot, and we now often see that "gentle and elegant" white-faced scholar is different, but also a kind of martial arts embodiment of it. In the unearthed Jin Dynasty paintings, "Women's Ancient Virtues", "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove", "Women's Benevolence and Wisdom Scroll", "Women's History" depicts the ancient men are mostly tall, big eyes, sideburns and whiskers, the face is long and contour, masculine and rugged with elegance, elegant and elegant clothes, with the typical "Wei and Jin style". As the highest peak of male aesthetic standard at that time, Pan An is probably this model.

2. Literary literacy

Besides his beauty, Pan Yue was the leader of Taikang literature, and the leader of the scribes in the Central Plains. He was good at embellishing words and orders, good at spreading out and making sentences neatly, which fully embodied the characteristics of Taikang literature that paid attention to the beauty of form. He was "good at the literature of mourning and admonition", and the surviving works such as "Widow's Fugue", "Yuan Yong's Passing", and "Mourning Poem" are all famous for their good narratives of mourning, while Pan Yue greatly developed the genre of fugue in the Western Jin Dynasty, among which his "Western Expedition Fugue", "Idle Dwelling Fugue", "Fugue for the Field", "Fugue of the Sea", "Autumn Rising Fugue", "Fugue of Hibiscus", "Fugue of Shooting Pheasants", etc. are all famous throughout the ages. As a representative of Western Jin Dynasty literature, Pan An is often referred to as Lu Ji, an old saying goes "Lu is as talented as the sea, Pan is as talented as the river", and his works have a great influence on the later generations, especially "Mourning Poems" has become a pioneering work on the subject of mourning for the dead in the history of Chinese literature, which has been pushed to be the first one in all times, and has become a famous piece of literature in the history of ancient Chinese literature.

3. Specialized love

Pan An was very handsome, but he was not philandering, he and his wife Yang's 12-year-old engagement, love for life. Yang died when Pan Yue was 52 years old, he wrote a eulogy for her sincere, lingering, and did not remarry. It became a story for the ages, with the comment "Pan and Yang's good".

4. Filial piety

Pan An's filial piety to his mother is even more famous in history, and became the master of the twenty-four filial piety "resignation from the government to serve his mother", which has become a model of traditional Chinese filial piety.

5. Character

Pan An was the magistrate of Heyang County, during which he was a clean official and actively led the people to plant peach and plum trees in the county according to local conditions, so that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which was also known as the "Flower County", and Pan Yue was also known as the "Flower Magistrate", which was commonly used in later times. "Hanyang", "Pan Ling", "Pan Hanyang", "Hanyang County Flower", etc. to refer to Pan Yue. "and so on to call Pan Yue, but also as a metaphor for a good official who is diligent and loves the people.

Comprehensive analysis of the ancient beauty of the man in the hardware requirements is the body standard, masculine, manly, in the software also need to have virtue, talent, character to do. I think there should be a lot of people who look better than Pan An in ancient times, but it is very rare to have the ability to have talent and character at the same time as having the appearance, which may be the reason why Pan An can be famous in the history of the world.