Friday, March 13, 2009

Criteria of beauty in China, from ancient China to today


The criteria of beauty women of ancient China to today, have evolved according to the dynasties.

During the Tang (from the seventh to ninth century AD), a beautiful woman is a strong woman with round cheeks and wide hips. This vision of women is a very martial of China, where he had to be tough and strong. More women are represented in very-cut clothes, showing its forms.

Under the Song (about 1000), the power is in hands of civilians and specific official. Female beauty is more androgynous, with little hip and chest. This criterion of beauty continues to the Ming dynasty (fourteenth to seventeenth century AD). The women's clothing are also becoming much more modest, amounts to the neck.

From the seventeenth century under the Qing criterion of feminine beauty is like the heroine of Dream of the Red: very skinny and very white skin.

Some traditional criteria of beauty were at least questionable. Thus, the mothers for centuries enveloped the feet of their daughters tight bandages. At that time, the size of the foot was an essential element of beauty. The ideal was a foot of 15 cm long, why the children were up gang of four years. This aesthetic perfection was highly sought after and the girl who owned this asset was a rich marriage. This tradition has however imposed girls real torture and the practice was banned in 1911.

Later, during the Cultural Revolution, no sign of femininity was admitted and women looked to men (short hair ....)

Today it is considered in China a woman is beautiful if it is large, with large eyes and a nose longer than normal. These criteria for modern beauty are linked to a certain fascination with the West and Western women, excessively idealized and made the fortune of plastic surgeons.

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