A confident girl is the most beautiful.
Girls themselves think it's so beautiful. What can you do? Looking at this sentence, I deliberately took a closer look at the photos of Cixi. Well, I'm confident, that's right. Even though the aesthetic standards of the Qing people may be different from our current aesthetic concepts, this old photo of Cixi is really a little intellectually beautiful.
Princess De Ling's Evaluation of Cixi
Princess De Ling once translated for Cixi. Born in Zhengbaiqi family of Manchu, his father was a Manchu nobleman and diplomat, and his mother was a French woman. She traveled overseas with her father since she was a child. She once praised Cixi for her good looks more than once. We can't confirm whether Princess Delingha is sincere in praise or perfunctory. After all, when she met Cixi, Lafayette was dying, but from the sincere praise of Princess De Ling, we can still feel that Cixi is really a dying beauty.
When the Queen Mother was in her prime, Yi was indeed a charming, bright and bright girl (this is undoubtedly a wild guess), and she was often praised by the palace people, that is, Yi was gradually squeezed out by the years, and after entering the old world, she still retained some touching beauty! ?
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, an American painter painted a portrait of Cixi, and even mistook Cixi, who was over 60 years old, for 40 years old (it sounded like deliberate exaggeration), and praised Cixi for her good figure.
Let's take a look at the requirements of the beauty pageant in the harem of the Qing Dynasty: good figure and good conduct. ?
Looking at these eight words, it seems that they can also confirm each other with the American statement. The selection criteria of concubines in Qing dynasty were strictly in accordance with the degree of physical symmetry, and there was no special requirement for face shape. It doesn't mean that you can be promoted by the sea election just because you are good-looking, so the princess De Ling mentioned above and the American painter's evaluation of Cixi has certain reference value, right? Charming? 、? Body symmetry? It is indeed the capital that Cixi used to be proud of.
Cixi, who has lived in Palace of Gathered Elegance for a long time, loves dressing up and pays attention to maintenance. No matter how many years after her husband's death, she still cares about her skin. As a strong woman in charge of more than half a century in the late Qing Dynasty, her love for beauty is well known to the imperial court. This old woman especially likes to study rouge when she is free. In order to prevent allergic reactions, Cixi people simply let people around them try rouge first to make sure there is no problem before they can use it.
Cixi's attention to skin care is almost paranoid and abnormal, which can be seen in the records of a large number of outflows from the palace. She often uses egg white as a formula to maintain her skin. Moreover, for beauty beauty's sake, she also drinks milk, human milk, tremella soup and other ingredients that are good for her body and skin for a long time.
From the perspective of our modern people, the old Cixi seems to have a certain distance from the beautiful woman, and even really thinks it is an ugly face with murderous look, not half feminine.