What beauty mattered

What beauty mattered
Sep 14, 2005 20:13
RITA Points: Join Date: May 10, 2005 Status: offline	King Chuling (6th century BC) likes to see wasp-waisted people, so from his liegemen to the ordinary people, all eat one meal per day and starve themselves nearly to death to achieve the wasp-waist, every morning before the ministers meet him, they take a deep breath and at the same time fasten the belt, standing up slowly by the support of the wall .... Years later, all the Chu people become sallow and emaciated... The following, I would focus on the standards of beautiful women in history: Talking about standards of beautiful women, it seems to me that it's never gone far from the three important sizes. In Chinese history, people were somehow indifferent about the size of women's bosom ... But the size of hip really mattered, in ancient time (even now), plumpy-hip women were deemed to be capable of giving birth to more children, that means much in an agriculture society of low productivity. So, it became one of the most important standards of beauty. Chinese people happened to have the same view with westerners, I think:) Besides the sizes of body, feature was crucial. Before Han Dynasty, people simply attached importance towards women's countenance, later on to Wei and Jin, people started to distract a little bit of their attention to the accessories. Tang Dynasty was very open, but it is interesting that the standards of beautiful were very much close to the Bodhisattva (Kwan-yin), they should be plump and open in dress. It sounds like the best time for women to be born in:) From then on, almost all the standards of beautiful women were left for suffering...

Sep 14, 2005 20:13

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King Chuling (6th century BC) likes to see wasp-waisted people, so from his liegemen to the ordinary people, all eat one meal per day and starve themselves nearly to death to achieve the wasp-waist, every morning before the ministers meet him, they take a deep breath and at the same time fasten the belt, standing up slowly by the support of the wall .... Years later, all the Chu people become sallow and emaciated...

The following, I would focus on the standards of beautiful women in history:

Talking about standards of beautiful women, it seems to me that it's never gone far from the three important sizes. In Chinese history, people were somehow indifferent about the size of women's bosom ...

But the size of hip really mattered, in ancient time (even now), plumpy-hip women were deemed to be capable of giving birth to more children, that means much in an agriculture society of low productivity. So, it became one of the most important standards of beauty. Chinese people happened to have the same view with westerners, I think:)

Besides the sizes of body, feature was crucial. Before Han Dynasty, people simply attached importance towards women's countenance, later on to Wei and Jin, people started to distract a little bit of their attention to the accessories.

Tang Dynasty was very open, but it is interesting that the standards of beautiful were very much close to the Bodhisattva (Kwan-yin), they should be plump and open in dress. It sounds like the best time for women to be born in:) From then on, almost all the standards of beautiful women were left for suffering...

Sep 14, 2005 20:25

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How devastated, deformed, binded feet became affectionate to men?

As records showed, girls started to bind their feet from about the age of four or five, it meant nightmares began.... I am wondering how footbinding was becoming almost the sole standard of beauty. Once, no matter how beautiful a woman was and how she looked fine in all aspects, if she had "big feet", she would be laughed at by all the people and no man would marry such a kind of girl. "Big feet" is the worst language to humiliate a woman...

Sep 14, 2005 20:30	#2
RITA Points: Join Date: May 10, 2005 Status: Offline	I am sorry if the above picture scared you:(

Sep 14, 2005 20:32	#3
RITA Points: Join Date: May 10, 2005 Status: Offline	Are female skeletons prevailing now? :)

Sep 14, 2005 23:02	#4
CONNY129 Points: Join Date: May 25, 2005 Status: Offline	horrible ! I'm so lucky to born in the new era

Sep 15, 2005 03:11	#5
ELCABRON Points: Join Date: Feb 9, 2005 Status: Offline	Women were dependent on men and could not run away....Good ol´times;-)

Sep 15, 2005 03:27	#6
CONNY129 Points: Join Date: May 25, 2005 Status: Offline	Will you feel free if a woman always around you ?

Sep 15, 2005 03:39	#7
RITA Points: Join Date: May 10, 2005 Status: Offline	I am wondering what's the per centage of men nowadays could really afford their wives staying at home as full time housewives. Women didn't have to work, 'Good ol´times;-)'!

Sep 15, 2005 03:48	#8
CONNY129 Points: Join Date: May 25, 2005 Status: Offline	giggle~~ nowadays woman have to work to support herself even her whole family if she has a unemployed husband.

Sep 15, 2005 03:54	#9
ELCABRON Points: Join Date: Feb 9, 2005 Status: Offline	CONNY, leave him, you deserve a better live:-)

Sep 15, 2005 03:56	#10
RITA Points: Join Date: May 10, 2005 Status: Offline	When women were not financially independent, they shared husbands; when they were 'in possession of' a husband each technically, they shared burden of families. What a price they paid for a mere husband!!:-)

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