Did the Tang Dynasty really advocate "fat as beauty"?Deciphering the weight of Yang Guifei in history
For the Tang Dynasty"Fat phoenix figure", we can see from this painting that the Tang Dynasty women in the painting tend to be fat, which is different from the modern aesthetic concept of thinness as beauty, but is the fat of the Tang Dynasty really beautiful?
But did the Tang Dynasty really regard fat and thin as beauty?The great beauty of the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guifei, is really as rumored"Rounded"Is it?What is Yang Guifei's real weight?
Tang Dynasty beauties have never been considered"Fatty"。
The times change, each historical period has its own aesthetics, and the formation of different aesthetic concepts is mainly affected by many factors such as culture, economic development, and social environment.
During the Tang Dynasty, the country was strong and open to the outside world, attracting many countries to come to study Xi exchanges.
It was not until Wu Zetian ascended the throne of the Tang Dynasty that the status of women in the world improved, and the restrictions on women were naturally weakened.
In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the economy was prosperous, the people lived a prosperous and comfortable life, and the people were naturally broad-minded and well-fed.
People gradually mellowed, because life was better, the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty people also changed, and they began to regard obesity as beauty, which is a reflection of strong national strength and good living conditions.
Although the people of the Tang Dynasty regarded obesity as beauty, here"Obesity"In fact, it refers to the obesity of a woman's body, not to the fatter the more beautiful. In the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guifei's beauty was not legendary"Chubby beauty", but Yang Guifei is more handsome than some women's slender willow winds.
Experts estimate that Yang Guifei may be between 163 centimeters and 165 centimeters tall and weigh about 60 kilograms to 63 kilograms. It is not difficult to see from the data that Yang Guifei is actually not fat, at best she can only be regarded as slightly plump.
This is because, whether a person is really fat or not depends not only on body type, but also on the ratio of muscle to fat.
Some people of the same height and weight seem to have much leaner muscle proportions than fat ratios.
It is said that Yang Guifei likes ** and dance, and Li Longji specially composed a song "Neon Dress and Feather Song" in order to please Yang Guifei.
People who love to dance and dance for a long time should have a larger muscle ratio than people who don't exercise regularly, so we can estimate that Yang Guifei's physique is very good. Because she is bumpy and bumpy, the flesh on her body grows in the right place.
As a great beauty in the Tang Dynasty, one of the four beauties in ancient times, if she became fat, it would not affect her beauty, after all, in the early Tang Dynasty, fat was not considered beautiful.
Different periods of the Tang Dynasty produced different aesthetics.
Yan Liben, a painter in the early Tang Dynasty, can see it when he painted the "Walking Diagram"."Hair girl"The image is different from that of a woman.
In the "Walking Diagram", all the women are slender, some wear sedan chairs on their heads, some hold fans, and look weak.
They are so fragile that it seems that they will fall to the ground when the wind blows. This aesthetic is also related to the background of the time.
In the early Tang Dynasty, people liked a slender figure, and the thin waist was the most attractive, so women ate less food in order to maintain their figure, and the economic situation in the early Tang Dynasty was generally different from that in the Tang Dynasty, and the environment in which people lived was also different, which led to the difference in aesthetic concepts.
In addition, the royal blood of the Tang Dynasty was mixed with the blood of the Hu and Xianbei tribes, and in the early Tang Dynasty, there were also several queens from the Xianbei tribe in the emperor's harem.
They brought some of the behaviors and culture of the Xianbei nomads into the Tang Dynasty, and most of the folk culture of the Tang Dynasty came from the imperial court.
They spread the Hu people's fairness, preference for strong physique, love of horseback riding, archery and other nomadic cultures, and made Tang women beautiful with strong muscular lines.
In the Tang Dynasty, the level of economic development improved, and people gradually began to regard beauty as beauty, so the beauty of the Tang Dynasty Yang Guifei was more puffy than other beauties at that time.
Because the bloodline of the Hu people is more primitive than the skeleton of Han women, and the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty are different, not everyone has the same understanding of beauty.
In the Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion, from prosperity to decline, in that period when the economic situation was not good, people were keeping warm and laying the foundation for food and clothing, but at this time in the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty, the ** figure is no longer like the Tang Dynasty, and the delicate woman like the weak willow and the wind is back.
With the southward shift of the political center, gradually, under the influence of the thin sense of Jiangnan, people began to weaken the beauty of Jiangnan culture.
The change in aesthetics in the Tang Dynasty was precisely because of the influence of culture and economic prosperity.
Therefore, modern girls do not have to worry about their body shape. The sturdy body is a symbol of the Chinese nation's strength, national peace and security, and comfortable life.
The Tang Dynasty really thinks"Fat is beautiful"Is it?Take a look at the real weight of Yang Guifei in history.