In today's society, women advocate thinness as beauty, especially female celebrities in the entertainment industry have put their weight in a thin state in order to look better on camera, and are extremely strict in their own weight management . Women can be said to have tried all kinds of methods to get thinner, and dieting, fitness, and using weight loss pills are no problem.
In fact, in ancient times, women also paid great attention to body management. Most women in dynasties regarded thinness as beautiful. Poems describing beautiful women in ancient times are often described as slender women.
Yuan Dynasty writer Zhang Kejiu in Yuanqu "Wuye'er·There is a gift on the table" describes: "The lotus face, the willow waist, nothing is more enchanting", Bai Juyi in the preface to "Can't forget the love song": cherry Fan Su's mouth, the willow waist is slim. It can be seen that in the eyes of these scholars, thin beauties with thin waists are the most popular.
In today's society, women can make themselves thinner through various means, and the same is true for ancient women. They also have a love for beauty and will also use various methods to make themselves thinner. So in ancient times, what measures would women take to maintain a graceful figure?
1. Healthy weight loss methods
. It was difficult for ancient women to have the chance to be fat
In fact, compared with modern people, there were very few fat people in ancient women, especially those who were not married. Modern society is rich in material resources, and various high-carbohydrate foods are beautiful and delicious. It is rare for modern people to have heavy physical labor to naturally develop obesity.
However, in ancient times, material conditions were poor, especially for ordinary people, being able to eat a full meal was a very happy thing. Many families had to survive in hunger. Girls were malnourished and skinny was the norm. Where could they be obese, let alone lose weight? Moreover, in addition to not eating enough nutrition, the daughters of ordinary people often do a lot of physical labor and have no chance to gain weight.
Women in wealthy families are better nutrition, but in ancient times, the daughters of wealthy families had to be restricted by rules, especially their posture and demeanor were trained from urination. In order to marry a good family in the future, they would definitely manage their figure accordingly and would not become fat easily.
, Yang Guifei's plump beauty
Of course, many ancient women had purpose in order to maintain their figure. For example, Yang Guifei, she needed a good figure to maintain the favor of Tang Xuanzong . But Yang Guifei did not regard thinness as beautiful.
Everyone says During the Tang Dynasty period, fat is considered beautiful, and many people even think that Yang Guifei is a fat beauty. In fact, it was not the case. Even in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the plump beauty was only popular. Yang Guifei didn't know if it was because she failed to lose weight, so she built herself into a benchmark for beauty, allowing the women of Tang Dynasty to learn from her, taking plumpness as beauty, rather than being slender and thin as beauty.
"Old Tang Book " records Yang Guifei as: "has a beautiful figure, good at singing and dancing, and is proficient in music." It can be seen that Yang Guifei is not a thin person, but she is still good at singing and dancing, fully grasping the favor of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang. She won't lose weight too much to maintain her figure, just go with the flow.
. Diet therapy and exercise were commonly used weight loss methods in ancient times
Weight loss actually pays attention to methods. There was no Western medicine and Western medicine in ancient times, especially in the pre-Qin period, when medicine was underdeveloped, people began to pay attention to diet therapy.
People in the pre-Qin period would use Carp soup to eliminate edema. People are prone to facial edema after staying up late. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, carp soup does have the effect of eliminating edema. But the premise is that the person's weight is caused by edema. If it is not edema obesity, then drinking carp soup is useless.
Another relatively healthy way to lose weight is exercise. As early as the end of Eastern Han , miracle doctor Hua Tuo invented the Five Animal Play. It is said that long-term practice can not only prolong life but also lose weight.This is actually a kind of weight loss by exercise and fitness. However, the movements of the Wuqin Opera evolved from imitating animals. All the movements were very ugly. Ancient women did not like them and did not practice the Wuqin Opera very much.
The social atmosphere during the Tang and Song dynasties was open, and women could go out of their homes to participate in various activities. The rich and colorful sports games were very popular among women, such as playing polo , Cuju , etc. These exercises can not only exercise the body to burn fat, but also play fun, and are an excellent way to lose weight. However, these are all noble games, and those who can participate are women in noble families, and it is difficult for ordinary people to get in touch with daughters.
2. Unhealthy weight loss methods
. The King of Chu is so thin, and the palace maids and ministers take diet to lose weight
To be honest, healthy weight loss methods are slow to work and require continuous endurance, which is not possible for those who are eager to achieve success. So now many girls adopt unhealthy weight loss methods that are effective quickly, such as excessive dieting, taking weight loss pills randomly, etc., but it often backfires.
Chu Lingwang especially likes thin beauties, especially those with thin waists. Therefore, the concubines and palace maids in the harem could only lose weight through dieting, which is an unhealthy way. King Ling of Chu not only asked the women in the harem to have thin waists, but also the ministers. Therefore, the ministers in the court also tried their best to diet for weight loss.
Because of dieting, the entire Chu State The palace was all over the palace, men and women were hungry and weak, so they could only walk on the wall. The scene was really miserable. "Mozi·Jianaizhong" once recorded that in the past, King Ling of Chu loved soldiers and slender waists, so the ministers of King Ling all took a meal as a festive manner, then took a breath and then stood up with the wall.
, Zhao Feiyan Using drugs to lose weight causes great harm to the body
In ancient times, there were weight loss pills to lose weight. Do you still remember the Anlingrong in the palace drama " The Legend of Zhen Huan "? In order to successfully lose weight as soon as possible, she used a drug called Xiji Wan. Although this drug can lose weight quickly, it can cause women to be unable to have children because it contains , musk , which can cause great damage to the human body.
In the play, Zhen Huan once said that this Xiji pill was used by Zhao Feiyan during the Western Han Dynasty, which is also the reason why Zhao Feiyan cannot have children.
The content in the play is not entirely made up by the screenwriter, because according to the unearthed ancient books, Zhao Feiyan, the queen of Emperor Cheng of Han, used a pill in order to maintain her light body, which was prepared from a variety of traditional Chinese medicines.
It is said that by sticking this pill on the body, you can keep your face young and your body light. Therefore, Zhao Feiyan has always been very thin and has a light figure that can be used as a "dance in the palm". When she danced, a strong wind could blow her away, so she had to let the palace maids pull her back.
The pill used by Zhao Feiyan is effective, but the side effects of this drug are very great. It can be said to be a poison. If the toxicity slowly penetrates into the body, it will die.
Nowadays, many beauty institutions will achieve certain weight loss through massage. In fact, this method has been tried in during the period of the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, some people once soaked towels in cold water or even ice water, and then used towels to scrub them repeatedly in the obese areas of their bodies. The purpose is to create local calories in this way and burn the fat in this place.
. "White buttoning clothes" has become an unhealthy way to lose weight
. But I have to say that this way of losing weight is very harmful to the body and is also an unhealthy way to lose weight. What's even more terrifying is that the "white button-up clothes" used by women appeared in the Song Dynasty. This kind of clothes is equivalent to the current shaping clothes and has the effect of tying waists. Women are crazy about tying their fat parts, which is very easy to squeeze the internal organs and cause internal organs to be injured.
This white buttoned clothes became more popular during the Ming Dynasty , especially the palace maids in the palace often used this unhealthy way to shape the body.In fact, it is also very common in the West to lose weight by crazily strangling yourself. Western women often use a kind of "tight waist" to create a slender waist, and many people even break their ribs due to using this waist.
Whether it is the "harness" of the West or the "white buttoning clothes" in ancient China, they are self-harm-type weight loss methods and are simply undesirable.
Generally, people who choose unhealthy and extreme weight loss methods are eager to achieve their goals, or the environment they are in has no control over. Just like King Ling of Chu who loved to have a thin waist, those palace maids and ministers dared not to rebel against the monarch's intention, so they could only go to extremes to lose weight and satisfy the monarch's hobbies.
Zhao Feiyan was born in a poor family and had no foundation in the court. If she wanted to gain a foothold in the harem, she could only firmly grasp the heart of Emperor Cheng of Han. In order to compete for favor, she could only choose to use drugs containing toxins to maintain her beauty and figure.
3. Medicinal weight loss methods
, hawthorn, lotus leaves and other medicinal materials used for weight loss
Take weight loss pills is an important way for many girls to lose weight today, so a variety of weight loss pills have appeared on the market. But you really should not take weight loss pills indiscriminately, especially many Western medicines have large toxins.
In fact, there are some medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine that can achieve weight loss effects. For example, hawthorn. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, it was recorded that hawthorn has the effect of "transforming diet and eliminating meat accumulation". In ancient times, people would use hawthorn as medicine when losing weight to condition their bodies.
In addition, lotus leaves can also be used as traditional Chinese medicine medicinal materials, and also have the effect of losing weight, so lotus leaves are also one of the commonly used weight loss medicinal materials. Until today, lotus leaves, hawthorn and other medicinal materials will be used in traditional Chinese medicine for obesity treatment. Many girls will also buy boiled water to drink it to achieve the purpose of losing weight.
. Ancient books recorded prescriptions for weight loss
Of course, in ancient times, some people also got sick due to obesity, so many medical skills have prescriptions for weight loss for traditional Chinese medicine. For example, Zhishu Decoction recorded in " Jinkui Yaolue " is very effective in treating beer belly caused by phlegm and dampness in the body. Wuling San , Da Chaihu Decoction and other Chinese medicines have the effect of losing weight.
In fact, women love beauty and want to have a good figure. But losing weight is really not an easy thing. Even today, with such advanced science and technology, losing weight is still extremely difficult. Losing weight is to have a healthy body, not blindly pursue "slim and beauty". After all, health is the most important thing.
Reference
, "Wuyeer·Gift on the table"
, "Mozi·Enjoyment"
, "Compendium of Materia Medica"
, "Old Book of Tang"
