Criterias of beauty in China, of the old China to our days

The criterias of beauty of the women, of dyes it ancient to our days, evolved considerably according to the dynasties.

Under the Tang (of the VIIème in the IXème century after JC), a beautiful woman is a robust woman, with round cheeks and the large hips. The woman's vision corresponds to one very martial period of dyes it, where it was necessary to be resistant and strong. Besides the woman is represented in clothes very necklines, showing his shapes.

Under the Song (toward the year 1000), the power is to the hand of the civilians and in individuals of the civil servant. The feminine beauty is then more androgynous, with little hip and chest. This criteria of beauty lasts under the Ming. The feminine clothes become also a lot chaster, amounts until the neck.

From the XVIIème century, under the Qings the feminine beauty criteria is to the picture of the Dream heroine in the red pavilion:  very skinny and to skin very half note.

Some traditional criterias of beauty were at the very least topic to guaranty. Thus, the Chinese mothers enveloped of centuries during the feet of their daughters of very tight bandagings. To this time, the size of the foot was an essential element of beauty. The ideal was a foot of 15-cm long, for it the foot of the children was bandaged since four years. This aesthetic perfection was very sought-after and the girl who possessed this asset made a rich marriage. This tradition inflicted to the little girls of real tortures however and this practice was forbidden in 1911.

Later, during the revolution cultural, no sign of femininity was not admitted and the women looked like the men (short hair....)

Today one considers dyes some that a woman is beautiful if she is big, with big eyes and a longer nose than the normal. These criterias of modern beauty are bound to a certain fascination of the west and the western women, idealized with excess and that makes the fortune of the plastic surgeons.


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