These two sentences are from Du Fu's La Ri in the Tang Dynasty.
Original text:
It's warm all year round, but it's completely frozen this year.
The color of snow invading the mausoleum is also day lilies, and there are wickers in spring.
Indulge in good wine and good night, get drunk, and return to China for the first time.
Tong En, a mouth-fat flour medicine, has nine times of Cuiguan silver poppy.
Translation:
In previous years, the weather in La Ri was still very cold, warm and far away from people. However, this year's weather in Latin America is mild, and the freezing has completely disappeared. The snow between the mountains disappeared, revealing bright green daylily. Through the brilliant spring, slender willow branches dance with the wind.
The emperor asked his ministers to offer wax, enter the inner hall in the evening, give food, add fat and wax, and drink heavily to celebrate the night. Happy, he is ready to leave the DPRK for home, but at this moment, because of the emperor's kindness, he can't just leave.
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In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, people attached great importance to the production and application of cosmetics. Beauty care and beauty treatment became gifts for each other, and also became gifts for courtiers and concubines by the emperor. "Oral powder medicine is kind" is a true portrayal of this custom at that time.
Oral fat, also known as lip fat, lipstick, lipstick, etc. , is a kind of beauty cosmetics applied to lips or cheeks to make them ruddy and attractive. The origin of oral fat in China is still early, and red lips are women's favorite. The red pigment obtained by grinding cinnabar can not only decorate cheeks, but also be mixed with animal fat to make it condense into grease to moisten lips, and this red color will not fall off easily, so it is deeply loved by ancient women.
Oral fat can not only dye lips, beautify appearance, but also moisturize skin. Because oral fat in ancient China can generally be applied to cheeks, it can be called lip and cheek rouge. Because it is mostly made of natural materials, it is not only safe and harmless, but also has bright and lasting color and pure and pleasant fragrance.
The reason why we attach importance to oral fat is as recorded in Sun Simiao's "Thousand Daughters Wing" in the Tang Dynasty. It is not easy to get the secret recipe of beauty care, and it is a great honor to get the beauty care drugs given to the court by the emperor. Then there is the Tang dynasty, which attached great importance to spices, from the imperial court down to the people, so cosmetics smell attractive and very popular.
In fact, men are given oral fat, which is only used to moisturize their lips and protect their skin, without coloring. The bustling places of the ancient imperial capital are all in the northwest Yellow River basin, where the climate is dry and dusty, and the north wind blows people's skin in winter. So in the Tang Dynasty, in winter, the relevant departments of the imperial court made skin care products, which were not only needed by the imperial court, but also distributed to officials.
Most of these 100 officials enjoy the special honor of bachelor of north gate and general of northwest. Mainly because Beimen Bachelor was in charge of drafting documents in imperial academy, participated in state affairs, and was in frequent contact with the emperor, he specially gave oral fat to make it fragrant when handling. The generals in northwest China mainly have dry and cold climate, rough skin, chapped lips and bleeding, and so on.
Therefore, giving them special gifts can alleviate skin problems, win the passion of soldiers, defend the country and die in battle to repay the emperor's kindness. Another reason is that the "salaries" of Tang officials are often paid in kind, such as wine, meat and silk, and even cosmetics such as rouge powder.
La Ri is the familiar Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", and the date is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In ancient times, some places in China had the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods in the twelfth lunar month, praying for a bumper harvest and good luck, and also had the custom of "drinking Laba porridge".
According to legend, the eighth day of December is also the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and became a Taoist, which is called "Magic Weapon Festival" and is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism. The word "Laba" originated in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when it was called "Laba Festival". Originally a Buddhist festival, it has gradually become a household name through the evolution of several generations.
On Laba Festival, there will be a grand ceremony, that is, La Worship. At the same time, many people have been longing for the Spring Festival since then. They are busy killing pigs, making tofu, making wind fish and bacon, and shopping for new year's goods. The atmosphere of "Nian" is getting stronger and stronger, which indicates that the new year is about to begin, so they are given oral fat and flour medicine to show the favor of the emperor. The system of the Tang Dynasty also stipulated that the fat noodle medicine was taken orally by Qin in the twelfth lunar month.