There is a saying in Mulan Poetry: Yellow on the mirror. Among them, the word "flower yellow" is mentioned. So, what is flower yellow? During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a painting method called yellow makeup on the forehead was very popular. The most popular method was half painting: only half of the forehead was painted, and then it was smudged with clear water to form an effect from shallow to deep, which was called "about yellow".
On the forehead of Mulan's makeup photo, besides a yellow flower, we can also see something like a small flower called a bud. The bud comes from the allusion "Shouyang Plum Blossom Makeup".
Bud is also a beggar. It appeared in the pre-Qin period and became more common in the Tang Dynasty. The raw materials of flower bud can be jade, dragonfly wings, fishbone, cardboard, mica, shells, gold foil and so on. These raw materials have various colors, so the makeup effect of flower buds is also very diverse.
In ancient times, women who loved beauty would put buds on their foreheads. The simplest bud usually has only a small circle, which is dotted on the eyebrows. In addition, plum blossom-shaped buds are also very popular.
At that time, women decorated their faces with flower buds, which not only looked more beautiful, but also covered up facial defects. At that time, the phenomenon of beating concubines in big houses was very common, so many abused women needed to put flower buds on their faces to cover up their scars.
Besides flowers, noodles are also one of the favorite ornaments for women in the Tang Dynasty. To put it bluntly, there is no beauty of dimples, and dimples are disguised with ornaments ("bad" means dimples on the cheeks).