beauties are like jade swords and rainbows. China has been around for five thousand years, and beautiful men with both talent and appearance have emerged in various dynasties. It can be called the "male color" era, and only Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties . According to the "Top Ten Beautiful Men of Ancient China": Zidu, Song Wengong , Song Yu, Pan An , Wei Jie, Lanling Wang , Ji Kang , Han Zigao, Murong Chong, Dugu Xin . (For details, please refer to the previous article of my work, Pan An, Dugu Xin, and Lanling King... Why was the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties a "male sex era" where handsome men gathered?) Among the top ten beauties in ancient China, there were 7 of them.
So, why are there so many beautiful men in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties?
1. Beauty comes from mixed race.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, northern nomadic peoples entered the Central Plains several times and merged with multiple ethnic groups. The so-called " marriage and official hierarchy lost " happened from time to time. From a genetic perspective, mixed-race children have better genes. Dr. George Feldman, a famous British psychologist, pointed out: "The faces of mixed-race races not only eliminate the asymmetry and differences in human faces, but also make people look more charming."
famous movie star Leonardo claims to have incredible devastating beauty. His mother is a German of Russian descent, and his father is a mixed-race child born in Ireland .
Nicholas Tse , his mother is a mixed Chinese-English race, so he also has a quarter of British blood.
2. Beauty is because of the utmost care.
Before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people valued virtue rather than beauty. However, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people's aesthetic consciousness and self-consciousness awakened. The famous scholars were forced to do not care about politics, but paid more attention to themselves and dress up.
"Sparse and dense and slanted like snow, light and soft fragrance and fine wind" silk has become the favorite of noble children. If you travel back to the Wei and Jin dynasties, you can see handsome men wearing silk-sleeved clothes and bands passing by, girls from Jiankang City rushing to watch, and the handsome men from the Wei and Jin dynasties set off the first aesthetic revolution in Chinese history.
In order to pursue a white skin color like jade, it was common for men to make fans at that time. The famous allusion of " Fufen He Lang " means that the handsome guy He Yan is beautiful and white. Even the emperor doubted whether he was Fufen, so he asked him to eat hot noodles in the summer. He Yan was sweating profusely in a short while and could only wipe his sweat with a red court suit, but "the color turned bright", his skin color was still white and as pretty as before, which broke the rumor that He Yan "white skin depends on applying powder". The idiom "Fu Fan He Lang" was later used to describe a man with handsome appearance and fair skin.
3. Beauty is because of taking drugs.
Although there is no fu powder, He Yan was the initiator of taking "Wushi Powder" during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. According to " Jin Shu ", He Yan said, "If you take Wushi Powder, you will not only cure diseases, but also feel enlightened and cheerful." Wushi Powder not only whitens and refreshes your spirit, but also enhances physical strength and helps your sexual activities. Moreover, because of the extremely sensitive skin, I can’t wear new clothes and can only wear loose old clothes. I can't wear shoes and socks, so I can only wear wooden clogs, so we see many portraits of people from Jin, with light furs and slow belts, wide clothes and elegant clothes.
4. Beauty comes from personality:
people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties appreciate the beauty of personality and respect the value of personality. In "New Words on the World", Huan Wen asked Yin Hao : "How are you like me?" Yin replied: "I have been dealing with me for a long time, so I would rather be me!" ———Heng Wen asked Yin Hao: How do you think you are comparing with me? Yin Hao replied: I have been dealing with myself for a long time, but I would rather be myself. Yin Hao's answers that were neither humble nor arrogant and cherished himself were very in line with the appetite of people at that time. For example, someone said to Zhang Han : "How can you indulge and be comfortable for a while? Don't you consider your reputation behind you?" Zhang Han replied: "Instead of making me famous behind you, it's better to have a glass of wine now!"
Even women at that time were very personal. For example, Wang Hun and his wife watched their son walk through the courtyard, Wang Hun happily said to his wife: "It's really comforting to have such a son."His wife Zhong Yan (that is, the great-granddaughter of Zhong Yao) smiled and said, "If I marry your younger brother Wang Lun, I will give birth to more than that." "Such conversations are shocking now, let alone the mouths of aristocratic women in the feudal period.
5. Beauty comes from nature:
"Following the Famous and Responsible for Nature" has become the core theme of the Wei and Jin dynasties. "New Words of the World: World" records that the Eastern Jin painter Gu Kaizhi returned from Kuaiji. People asked about the beauty of mountains and rivers. Gu said: "Thousands of rocks compete for beauty, thousands of valleys compete for flowing, and plants and trees cover them, as if clouds are blooming. "There are also famous quotes from Emperor Jian Wen: "There is no need to be far away when you know your heart, and you will feel that birds, beasts, birds, and fish will come to your relatives. "The people of the Jin and Song dynasties appreciate the nature of mountains and rivers, and they are beyond the mysterious realm. The famous line by the poet Tao Yuanming "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the southern mountains", can be seen that the profound and profound philosophical meaning of the mysterious and profound people are deeply rooted in the beauty and natural appreciation of people at that time.
6. Beauty comes from freedom.
despite the turbulent and social chaos in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a rare liberation trend in thought due to the influence of metaphysics. For example, someone gave the famous monk Zhidaolin a pair of cranes, but Zhidaolin was frustrated and frustrated to see the cranes unable to fly, saying: "Since you have the posture of being soaring to the sky, how can you be close to others! "So he let go of this pair of cranes that he likes very much. - It is precisely because the people of Jin love their spiritual freedom that they can bring things into their own and benefit living things.
Even for women, it is a rare era of freedom and liberation. Ge Hong In "New Words of the World: Bao Puzi", women in the Wei and Jin dynasties were like men, visiting relatives and friends, traveling around, or going home in the middle of the night, or not returning home at night, climbing mountains and waters, and traveling far away from their hometowns. In this era of returning to nature, they are not bound by the secular world, they are unrestrained, and act freely, rendering that turbulent and bloody era into gorgeous and colorful.
7, Beauty , from deep affection.
In the chaotic times, the people were displaced, and the scholars and officials had no way to serve the country, just like Cao Cao 's comment: A capable minister in governing the world, and a traitor in the chaotic times. Since you cannot be a good minister who devotes your life, you can only be a true hero who does something great. Just like the sunset that lives and dies in the morning, like a season of gorgeous cherry blossoms, like a meteor that slips in an instant, countless romantic celebrities and heroes bloomed the glory of life on the stage of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Although the people of Jin were superb, they could not forget their feelings. The so-called " love is in our generation " (Wang Rong's words)! Yu Liang died, He Yangzhou's burial said: "Buried in the land of jade trees, how can people's feelings be left alone! "It is not only full of love, but also a pity for " beauty disillusionment ". Huan Wen went north to see that he planted willows in Langya before and said ten times, "The wood is still like this, how can people bear it?" "She burst into tears. Huan Wenwu, the feelings are so!
deep affection means that sensitivity and pain exist, and experience the deep sorrow of the universe and life, and compassion for the world and life; it is the experience of happiness, and it is also deep in the heart and thrilling. Jin people discovered nature outside and their deep affection inward.
8. Beauty comes from friendship.
Jin people's "aestheticism of personality" and the emphasis on friendship have cultivated into a high-level social culture, such as "Traveling in the bamboo forest, Lanting 聊 (xì) collection", etc. Good friends chat together, drink, and go on a voyage together... Mysterious debate and the character's algae are the main contents of this social interaction. Therefore, the wonderful words of people's speech are unprecedented.
9. Beauty comes from temperament.
Huan Wen passed the tomb of Wang Dun and sighed, " Keer! Keer ! "—Huan Wen passed by Wang Dun's cemetery and sincerely sighed that Wang Dun is really a good man who likes him! He didn't mind that Wang Dun was killed when he was rebelled, and he still yearned for Wang Dun's heroic and powerful nature, and beat him up, without any hesitation of his defeat or being bound by the secular concept of treason.
"New Words of the World" specializes in a chapter called " Elegance ". Ji Kang "was executing the East City, his spirit remains unchanged, so he can play the piano"; Huan Wen wanted to kill Xie An and Wang Tanzhi . Wang Tanzhi was frightened, "redirected in color", and "Xie's tolerance is more reflected in appearance" - when life and death are at stake, Wang Tanzhi was frightened, and Xie An's expression remained unchanged, so he was praised by the world. Also, Xie An and others took a boat to visit the sea. When they encountered the strong wind and waves, everyone was frightened, but he was still calm and in a relaxed mood. Who said that the Wei and Jin Dynasties advocated the beauty of feminine women?
10. Beauty comes from tolerance.
tolerate diverse and beautiful existences, has both the charm of celebrities and heroes.
Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao will meet with the envoys of the Xiongnu . He thought he was ugly and could not show his majesty to distant countries, so he called Cui Jigui instead, but he stood beside Cui Jigui's bed with a knife. After receiving the meeting, Cao Cao sent a secret spy to ask the Xiong envoy, "What do you think of King of Wei ?" The Xiong envoy replied, "The King of Wei's lofty prestige is extraordinary, but the person holding the knife by the bed (Cao Cao) is the real hero!"
Here, although on the one hand, it shows that he really valued appearance at that time, so Cao Cao did not hesitate to be a knife-catching man, but this story is placed in the first chapter of "New Words on the World: Rong Zhi", which also shows that he appreciates this heroic spirit and reflects the vitality that is still vigorous in the war years.
11. Beauty comes from talent.
For example, article beautiful : How can a beautiful man not have talent? For example, in "New Words on the World·Literature Chapter 4·84", it says, "Absolute text is as good as brocade, everywhere; Lu Wen is as simple as gold on sand, often see treasures." The handsome man Pan Yue's literary talent is brilliant, like the beauty of hanging, and no one is not beautiful; the other handsome man Lu Ji's literary talent is as if he removes quicksand and picks up gold, and often encounters shining treasures.
For example, Talk about beauty : In "New Languages in the World·Version 2·98", "Sima Taifu (Daozi) sat at night in the vegetarian camp. At that time, the moon was bright and clean, and there was no thinness. The Taifu sighed that it was good. Xie Jingzhong sat down and replied, "It means it is not as good as embellishment of the micro clouds. "Sit down and talk about whether it is more beautiful in the night sky, or is it more beautiful in the embellishment of the micro clouds? Such a comfortable, poetic, and Zen-like life can be regarded as the most beautiful.
For example, calligraphy beauty : This is exactly the sentence "A person is like his words, and his words are like his people". The Jin people are elegant and elegant, and they are not stuck in things, which is in line with the work of running cursive scripts in one go, and the wild and empty mind is too mysterious. "Every point of Zhong Yao is different, and Xizhi's ten thousand words are Different. The free and elegant artistic personality of the Jin people is reflected in this unique Chinese art calligraphy and calligraphy, and it is also the soul of Chinese painting art. This is the so-called Jin people's charm. Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is also a typical representative of it.
12. Beauty lies in appreciation.
is like Ruan Ji likes the beautiful boss of a tavern, and even sleeps by her side when she gets drunk, not for anything else, but for beauty. Because the Wei and Jin Dynasties value reviews, there are more records about appearance. There are 39 exclusive "Rongzhi Chapters" in "New Words of the World", which shows that. I am particularly immersed in the beauty of the characters of , . In short, I was particularly good at discovering beauty in - —Appreciate beauty—Record beauty , which naturally leaves the best feelings about beauty for future generations.
Like the book "New Words of the World", it reflects Wei and Jin style , and is a master of the aesthetics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Aesthetics master Zong Baihua In his article "On "New Words of the World" and the Beauty of the Jin people", he said: "The beauty of the Jin people is the highest peak of the entire era. The simple and mysterious writing style of "New Words on the World" is particularly vivid and vivid. ”
A kind of romantic style I love most, poems of late Tang Dynasty figures in the Six Dynasties. Famous scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties like to talk about meditation, speak with philosophy, choose friends and pay attention to sentiment, pay attention to literary talent, write poetry and advocate artistic conception, and pursue calligraphy with charm.They discovered the beauty of freedom of the soul inward, the beauty of naturalness of mountains and rivers outside, pursued the freedom and ostentation of human nature, clear inside and outside, and clear...
They created a spiritual beauty artistic conception, illuminating this extremely dark history, which is unique in ancient Chinese history.
So those handsome men are all beautiful, elegant, mysterious, and transcendent.
And they are like the most dazzling stars, traveling through the dark night of two thousand years, illuminating you and me.
