Then, why since ancient times, most people like to take white as beauty, and even ruin their health for white? There are three main reasons.
First, the ancients thought that white was rich, which contained a kind of envy. In ancient times, it was originally a small-scale peasant economy that was made at sunrise and rested at sunset. In such a state of economic development, most people will work in the fields under the scorching sun. Over time, people's skin will naturally get tanned.
However, the evolution from a tribal form to a national form composed of many tribes will inevitably lead to different classes under the development of the social situation here. Moreover, the division of this class is polarized with the improvement of the national system. Therefore, when the rich have the right to annex land, many poor people have no land to farm. Therefore, this gave birth to occupations such as tenant farmers.
And those who have power and money, mostly pay for themselves, or use their power to oppress the powerless to help themselves. Therefore, after their skin has not been sunburned for a long time, it will naturally not be as black as others. Therefore, to a certain extent, fair skin has naturally become a symbol of the rich.
Second, the influence of culture. Under people's pursuit of skin whitening, literati's description of people will also be influenced by it. Looking at books describing the appearance and image of characters, most of the beauties written by these literati are white-skinned. Are they based on? White jade? And then what? Snow? As a foil.
1, Feng Wei in The Book of Songs? Masters, there is a saying: Hands are soft, skin is solidified, collar is like salamander, teeth are like rhinoceros. ?
2. Warring States Period: Song Yu's "Ode to the Disciple" has a cloud: eyebrows are like jade feathers and muscles are like snow. ?
3, Tang Dynasty: Wei Zhuang's "Bodhisattva Man", the poem goes:? The women selling wine in Jiangnan restaurant are all very beautiful, and their arms exposed when selling wine are as white as snow. ?
4, Song Dynasty: Liu Yong's "Acacia Belt", the word cloud:? The figure is enchanting. It is difficult to describe wind measures. A skin as jade, but also to account for thousands of jiao. ?
5. Ming and Qing Dynasties: A Dream of Red Mansions, the novel has something to say:? Pale eyebrows are like autumn water, and jade muscles follow the breeze. ?
What are the descriptions of beauty in different dynasties? Skin as white as snow? ,? Like jade? Such a description. And because the things popular in each dynasty are different, in Jin Dynasty and other dynasties, people's pursuit of handsome men seems to be a little morbid.
Third, it is the standard for men to judge their spouses. From a psychological point of view, men think that women with white skin will look younger when choosing a spouse; And with the increase of age, white women's wrinkles will be more obvious than black women's. So men will use this to judge their approximate age and fertility. (Of course, this is just what I saw on the Internet and can be ignored. )
Therefore, people's pursuit of skin whitening was not limited to modern times, but existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and even the Western Zhou Dynasty. After such a long time of precipitation, it is not surprising that people nowadays pursue whitening skin. Of course, white skin and black skin are congenital to some extent, and they are also formed through acquired operations.
However, there is a limit to the pursuit of skin whitening, and you can't destroy your health for the sake of deliberately pursuing skin whitening, which is not worth the candle.