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Four Beauties. The Four Beauties or Four Great Beauties are four Chinese women who were renowned for their beauty. The four are usually identified as Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, and Yang Yuhuan. [1] The scarcity of historical records concerning them meant that much of what is known of them today has been greatly embellished by legend.
Eight Beauties of Qinhuai. A 17th-century portrait of Chen Yuanyuan. The Eight Beauties of Qinhuai (Chinese: 秦淮八艳; pinyin: Qínhuái Bāyàn), also called the Eight Beauties of Jinling (Chinese: 金陵八艳), were eight famous Yiji or Geji during the Ming-Qing transition period who resided along the Qinhuai River in Nankin (now Nanjing ...
Standard Mandarin. Hanyu Pinyin. Yùfáng mìjué. Wade–Giles. Yü-fang pi-chüeh. Yufang mijue (Chinese: 玉房秘訣), translated into English as Secrets from the Jade Chamber, [1] Secret Formulae from the Jade Alcove, [2] or Secret Instructions from the Jade Chamber, [3] is a Chinese sex manual composed during the Han dynasty.
Xi Shi (Hsi Shih; Chinese: 西施; pinyin: Xī Shī; Wade–Giles: Hsi1 Shih1, lit. '(Lady) Shi of the West'), also known by the nickname Xizi，was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived in a small Yue village (today part of Zhuji, a county-level city in Shaoxing, Zhejiang) during the end of the Spring ...
Women in China also expands on these ideals, delving into the impact women have in Chinese society. [8] Thus, historically, the religious influences on Chinese beauty ideals closely tied outer beauty to inner beauty. Historically, an oval face, willow leaf eyebrows, long thin eyes, small lips, and a slim, fragile-looking body were preferred ...
Another mummy from the same place is the "Princess of Xiaohe". The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, [1][2][3] with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE. [4][5] The Tarim population to which ...
The goddess Jiutian Xuannü was known to ride a phoenix ( type of creature depicted ), holding phosphors and clouds as reins. The Yongcheng Jixian Lu ( 墉城集仙錄[ a] ), written by the Daoist master Du Guangting (850–933), contains a biographical account of Jiutian Xuannü. [ 9][ 10] It mentions that Jiutian Xuannü is the teacher of ...
Huadian (traditional Chinese: 花鈿; simplified Chinese: 花钿), also known as huazi (Chinese: 花子; lit. 'Little flower'), [1] mianhua (Chinese: 面花), meizi (Chinese: 媚子), [2] plum blossom makeup [3] or plum makeup [4] (Chinese: 梅花妝; pinyin: méihuāzhuāng or Chinese: 落梅妝; pinyin: luòméizhuāng) or Shouyang makeup [3] (Chinese: 壽陽妝), is a form of traditional ...