Rouge gouache has a long history. China is one of the earliest ancient civilizations with a history of at least 5,000 years. It has been recorded in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and Biography of Historical Records says: "Therefore, the servants of Hui Xiaoshilang are all crowned with handsome instruments, scallops and rouge powder." See, ancient officials not only put on beautiful scallops, but also put on rouge powder to make their appearance beautiful. Of course, rouge powder is more used by women. After Huo Qubing, a young general of the Han Dynasty, captured Yanqi Mountain in the western region of Xiongnu, the Xiongnu cried: I know everything about the mountain, which makes my daughter colorless! I didn't know that rouge was produced in the mountains, but Xiongnu women don't use rouge, and men can't see beautiful women. Of course, they are sad. In the pre-Qin period, women in the palace began to smear white powder on their faces. The earliest flour was made by grinding rice and adding spices, from "rice" to "powder". The earliest creams were made of animal fat, honey and other materials. Lead is often used in powder, so it is also called "lead powder". Rouge was also called Yan Zhi, Yan Zhi or Yan Zhi in ancient times. The birth of lipstick is not too late. The bright red cinnabar kissed the upper lip first. The red pigment ground with cinnabar can be used to modify cheeks, and mixed with animal fat to solidify it, which not only moisturizes the skin, but also can make up some colors, and it is not easy to fall off. The custom of lip makeup appeared in the Yellow River valley 3000 years ago. There is a saying in the Origin of Things written by Gao Cheng, a Song Dynasty, that "red makeup and green eyebrows are the only way to know Qin Shihuang Palace, and this makeup is the only way". It is not difficult to see that by the Qin Dynasty, people had already used eyebrow trimming and blush to make up. Well-preserved lacquer box cinnabar lip grease was also found in the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in Yangzhou, Jiangsu and Changsha, Hunan. Makeup of eyebrows and eyes has always been indispensable. Ancient women used Dai as thrush. Dai is a bluish-black ore, which is brittle and easy to dye, and belongs to the category of graphite in mineralogy. There is a saying in A Dream of Red Mansions: "There are stone names in the west, which can replace the ink of thrush." One of the most valuable varieties is called "Luodai", which first appeared in the Han and Wei Dynasties. There is a story about "wearing a snail": I visited Jiangdu in the south of the Yangtze River, specially made a dragon boat, and specially selected 1000 tall and beautiful women to paddle in it. When I boarded a boat with a beautiful woman on my shoulder, I found her particularly gentle and beautiful. I found that the beautiful woman's name was scarlet fairy, so I always stood beside her. Later, the rowing woman became An Jieyu and was taken into the harem. This scarlet fairy is good at drawing long moth eyebrows. Because of this opportunity, all the shipmates followed suit. After the crimson fairy girl entered the palace, she was treated better than other concubines, and she got a lot of thrush materials every day-"The palace official gave the snail five welcomes, and the number was moth green. When snails leave Persia, each one is worth ten gold coins. " For every ten gold imports, where can the daughters of ordinary people afford it casually? In fact, burnt willow branches can also draw curved moth eyebrows. In the worst case, poor children like Xi 'er can scrape the bottom of the pot and paint it carefully. When did the indispensable mirror on the dressing table appear? It is reported that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Beauty Stone knew how to dress water as a mirror. There have been records of bronze mirror dressing in Yin dynasty. By the Han Dynasty, all kinds of bronze mirrors had become a common tool for women's dressing, and the urns (dressing boxes) of aristocratic women in the Han Dynasty were also equipped with toiletries such as wigs, combs, brushes and rouge powder. Who doesn't love beauty? What's more, "gfd" is the basic requirement of China people's social etiquette, so with the richness of beauty products, the beauty industry has almost never declined. And a little rouge gouache can even become an industry, driving and promoting the development of local economy, such as Yangzhou. "Yangzhou powder" has been famous since ancient times. Emperor Kangxi visited Yangzhou in the south and brought back a batch of powder into the palace. 19 15, the famous Yangzhou brand "Xie Fuchun" duck egg powder won the silver prize of Panama World Expo, becoming the first cosmetics brand in China to win this honor. The culture in powder is different from modern intensive industrial production. The ancient rouge gouache is not only made of natural materials, but also simple and environmentally friendly, and some even seem romantic, so it often moves literati. Lu Kuang's "Three Treasures" introduces a method of flour milling for ancient Jiangnan women: picking stamens in the rainy season, drying them in the shade, adding balsam, making green velvet paste and dyeing it evenly on the cheeks. The color is beautiful. No matter how beautiful this green velvet cream is, the aroma is overflowing just in the production process. Why not make people yearn for it? Since ancient times, the relationship between women and rouge gouache is extraordinary, and "makeup" and "powder" have even become synonymous with women. In ancient times, boxes containing powder were called "Lian" and "makeup". The dowry is not only incense, but also countless poems. For example, "Who can look in the mirror and hold Xu Zhaohong's makeup", "Sister A hears her coming and cuts her red makeup", "Red makeup girds her waist", "Peach blossom, low-frequency arch eyebrows" and so on. There is such a record in Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy that the famous fat beauty Yang Guifei is afraid of heat and sweats a lot in summer. "Every time there is sweat, it is red, greasy and fragrant, or it is put on a towel, and the color is like pink." Because of too much powder, even the sweat is dyed red, which is delicious. No wonder I am favored. Because the relationship between powder and beauty is so close, men like to give powder to women since ancient times. In The West Chamber, after Zhang Sheng abandoned Yingying, the farewell gift sent by the messenger included "a box of flowers is worth five inches". A more convenient way is to give money and let women buy what they like. This is the so-called "powder capital". In history, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named the three sisters Yang Guifei as Mrs. Han, Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Qin, and each of them paid 100,000 yuan a month, which was the capital of powder. The extravagance of the son of heaven proves that Yang's three sisters are right.