We like to watch costume dramas and ancient novels, and we must be familiar with the above scenes. Every time we see this plot, we will feel that the ancient costume is exquisite and beautiful!
First, the development history of ancient makeup
Everyone has a love of beauty. As early as in primitive society, human beings began to decorate themselves with small things. Archaeologists have long discovered that primitive humans decorated themselves with beautiful pebbles, small shells and even the teeth of wild animals.
Among them? Tattoos It is also a part of human composition in primitive society. Tattoos, as the name implies, are similar to modern tattoos. They use sharp tools to draw various shapes and patterns on people's chests, arms and cheeks, so they will present the desired styles on their bodies because of the role of pigments. This decoration is similar to modern tattoos, lasting for a long time and not easy to clean and remove.
With the continuous development of civilization of the times, primitive humans gradually discovered that this makeup method was a cruel and painful barbaric beautification method, so whitewashing appeared and developed, gradually replacing tattoos. Because whitewashing is easier to dress a woman than tattooing, there is no harm, so this method is gradually valued. For this reason, tattoos have laid an unshakable foundation for the history of human makeup in the future.
Second, the characteristics of makeup in different dynasties
When it comes to ancient women, what do most people think of? Sink fish and fall wild goose? Close the moon and be ashamed of flowers? I think we leave such an impression on modern people because it depends on the difference of ancient makeup.
Women in Qin Dynasty preferred heavy make-up, and the eyebrow pencil was characterized by sweeping away the eyebrows, while the eyebrows were thicker. Careful observation will show that this way of thrush makeup continued until the Han and Tang Dynasties.
In fact, early humans discovered it? Daisato, thrush? What is Diane? It's actually something called. Shi Dai? Men in the Qin Dynasty wrote with Shi Dai, while women painted eyebrows with Shi Dai. When it comes to eye makeup, we will find that women in Qin Dynasty prefer to draw their eyes long and thin, showing obvious cheng-eye shape, which is one of the obvious differences between Qin Dynasty and Han and Tang Dynasties.
During the Han dynasty, the production technology of cosmetics was mature, and because people improved their beauty, their makeup forms had great room for development. In contrast, the makeup of the Qin Dynasty was relatively simple, so the makeup of the Han Dynasty can be said to be the origin of makeup. The first choice of makeup for women in Han Dynasty changed from simple and elegant to simple and elegant? Red makeup? The use of rouge has also become very common.
Women's cheeks in the Han dynasty are flushed, and they are Zhu, which makes women look more lovely. In order to make themselves look pleasing, women in the Han dynasty first lit two dots on the dimples of their cheeks to show that if the harem concubines had a moon affair and were difficult to say, they could not have sex in the court.
Later, the maid in the palace, Ge Ji, found such scarlet spots very pleasing, so she followed suit and spread them to the people. Red makeup? So it was loved by women in the Han Dynasty. Women's eyebrow makeup in Han Dynasty developed into a craze on the basis of Qin Dynasty, and eyebrow trimming was more common in Han Dynasty.
Dai, Dai, put out your eyebrows and go there, instead of painting? It means that people in the Han dynasty will pull off their eyebrows before inserting them, and then draw the eyebrows they want. Do women like lip makeup? Cherry mouth? So I will use lip fat to point out the lip shape I want.
? Does the cloud need clothes or flowers? The Tang Dynasty was a peak period of ancient civilization, and its female makeup became rich and varied. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, women showed their nobility with their fullness and beauty. Because of the popularization and development of Chinese painting in Tang Dynasty, there are many kinds of paintings for future generations to refer to. But no matter how the painting content changes, the makeup of women in the painting shows a remarkable feature. Hong Chu? .
Although in the Tang Dynasty, a kind of rouge that is more difficult to take off makeup has been developed, because women in the Tang Dynasty decorated their cheeks with scarlet rouge too much, and handkerchiefs with sweat stains on their cheeks would be dyed scarlet, and the water would be like red water when washing their faces. With the continuous development of production technology, Dai no longer needs to crush and mix with water. In the Tang dynasty, a fixed box was formed, which can be used when dipped in water.
Lip makeup, like other dynasties, pursues compactness and richness. In the Tang Dynasty, surface decorations had gradually entered the homes of ordinary people, and flower buds were used by most women. The bud is made of gold foil, silver foil, insect wings and even fishbone silk, which is attached to the face. It is also useful to draw scarlet between the eyebrows, which is also a kind of decoration that I personally think is very beautiful.
Then the makeup of the Qing dynasty, in my opinion, is the makeup with the highest degree of fit with modern makeup. The characteristics of makeup show a fresh and elegant beauty, which is more subtle and restrained. Eye makeup is very soft. In the Qing Dynasty, women painted their eyebrows as slender eyebrows with willow leaves, which was delicate and touching, while rouge changed from vermilion in the Tang Dynasty to pink. The overall feeling of makeup in Qing Dynasty is comfortable, weak and girlish.
Another notable feature is? Three pliers for one ear? The purpose of this is to distinguish Manchu women from Han women. The other is the hairstyle, which is more famous? Two heads? We must have seen this hairstyle in the TV series we watched when we were young, that is, Princess Pearl, in which Princess Swallow and Princess Wei Zi had two hairstyles, and so did the characters in the TV series Yan Xi Palace, which was a big fire last year? Three pliers for one ear? Two heads smaller? .
Third,? Take care of the city first and then the country?
From ancient times to the present, make-up has always been the external beauty pursued by women, showing people first, and appearance is always the first thing people see. Men will fall in love with beautiful women at first sight, while women will dress up for the men they like.
? My Fair Lady, Gentleman?
A beautiful woman is walking on the road, with clear facial features and beautiful and moving. Encounter, meet, jealous of your son?
Reference book:
[1] Li Ya: Female Makeup in China, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House, 20 17.
[2] Zhou Xun and Gao Chunming: Women's Decoration in China, Lin Xue Publishing House, 1997.
[3] The Book of Songs, Wanjuan Publishing House, 20 10.