1. Mo Mu
The most famous ugly woman in ancient times was as ugly as a hag when Mo Mu was the first one. "Wang Ziyuan's four sons on morality" in the cloud:
"Mo Mu is very embarrassed, and people with good reputation can hardly hide their ugliness." Qu Yuan's "Nine Chapters of Nostalgia": "I am jealous of the fragrant smelting, and Mo Mu is beautiful and complacent." But she was virtuous, and the Yellow Emperor married her. Mo Mu really failed to live up to the love of the Yellow Emperor and gave moral education to women.
2. Zhong Lichun
People often use "seemingly salt-free" to describe ugly girls. This "salt-free" refers to Zhong Lichun, an ugly girl in the salt-free county of Qi State (now the eastern part of Dongping County, Shandong Province) during the Warring States Period, also known as Zhong Wuyan and Zhong Wuyan. The book says that she is unmarried in her forties, extremely ugly, with a sunken head and deep eyes, a big belly, a stiff nose and throat, a fat top and little hair, and a painted skin.
Forehead protruding, eye socket sunken, nostril upturned, big head, less hair, bigger throat and Adam's apple than men, dark red skin, very old and unmarried.
3. Meng Guang
According to legend, Meng Guang is the helper of Hong Liang and Wu Di. When Hongliang came home, Meng Guang took Qi Mei as an example to show his respect for her husband. However, this virtuous woman's appearance is "extremely rough", "fat, ugly and black", and she can "lift a stone mortar".
4. Ruan Shi
Xu Yun, the leader of Cao Wei, married the daughter of Wei Gong. On the night of candlelight, she found Ruan's daughter ugly and rushed out of the new house and refused to enter again.
Later, Huan Fan, a friend of Xu Yunfeng's, came to see him and said to Xu Yunfeng, "Since the Ruan family married an ugly woman to you, there must be a reason. You must check her. " After listening to Fan's words, Xu really stepped into a new home.
But when he saw his wife and started to slip away, the bride caught him. While struggling, Xu Yun said to the bride, "Women have four virtues. How many have you met? " The bride said, "All I lack is beauty. How many times have you met a scholar? "
Xu Yun said, "I have everything." The bride said, "Virtue comes first. How can you say that you have everything? " Xu Yun was speechless. From then on, the husband and wife respected and loved each other, and their feelings were harmonious.
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Compared with four ugly women, there are four beautiful women in China history: Shi, Diophantine, Yang Guifei and Wang Zhaojun. These four beauties often become the objects of praise or disparagement by literati and poets in past dynasties.
"It's a historical allusion composed of wonderful stories to sink a fish and fall into a wild goose and close the moon and feel ashamed of flowers". "Sinking Fish" tells the story of stone's yarn-washing. "Wild Goose" refers to the story of Zhao Jun's departure from the fortress, "Closed Moon" refers to the story of Diusim Yue Bai, and "Shame on Flowers" refers to the story of Yang Yuhuan's imperial concubine enjoying flowers while drunk.