Prescription 1: Mix egg yolk with a spoonful of honey and a spoonful of flour and apply it to your face. If it is dry skin, add some olive oil, wash it after a quarter of an hour, then rub it with cold cream for five minutes, and then wipe it off with gauze.
The method of applying egg white to face is to apply egg yolk to face at the same time, rest the next day, apply egg white to face on the third day and rest on the fourth day. If you do this alternately for six months, wrinkles can disappear, because egg white can tighten loose skin and egg yolk can nourish skin.
The second prescription: If the allergic reaction is not suitable, you can use Yakult to change the medicine instead. Yakult is fermented milk. Apply Yakult evenly on your face, gently cover it with gauze to avoid loss, and wash it off with warm water for about 15 minutes, three times a week for three months, which will have a good effect and make your skin smooth and tender. You can also try honey mask. Honey nourishes the skin and removes spots.
Beauty foods include cucumber, pigskin, sweet potato, red dates, grape seeds, apples, kelp, wax gourd, figs, tomatoes, mulberries and oysters.
The day when Qing people entered the customs was the dawn of capitalism in China, especially in southern China, which was densely populated, economically developed and culturally rich. As the last dynasty of feudal society in China, the prosperity of Kanggan gave cosmetics and cosmetic technology a broader prospect. As concubines of the Qing Dynasty in the Forbidden City, they not only learned from makeup artist in previous dynasties, but also integrated their own skin characteristics, making the makeup and beauty of harem women an important part of court life.
Beauty beauty, concubines in the harem, the ultimate goal is to make people achieve "palace temperament", and the most taboo is fat and vulgar powder.
In the early years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, sourdrang dowager formulated a strict system of clothing and makeup for the harem, and ladies-in-waiting were never allowed to make up or dress up coquettishly.
Empresses' makeup is based on "appropriateness" and "appropriateness", but clothing and jewelry also have different grades, which are supervised by special eunuchs.
In fact, the environment of the Forbidden City is very empty and deserted. In order to create a vibrant atmosphere, the rulers of the Qing dynasty needed the concubines' faces to be full of vitality, specifically, to have a jewel-like moisturizing luster to avoid the emperor's mood falling into gray and dark tones.
Empresses and concubines in Qing dynasty mainly nourished the skin, supplemented by light makeup, which belonged to two categories: makeup and nourishment.
Cosmetic powder, brain fat (old fat skin care products) lipstick, Daisy.
Empresses' cosmetics are divided into spring and autumn, and they are all painted with palace powder produced in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Cheeks and lips are made of rouge from Nanjing and Yangzhou.
At that time, one of the industries of Suzhou, a famous city in the south of the Yangtze River, was to raise flowers. Women need patience, meticulousness and exquisiteness to make flowers into various cosmetics. The final product can be said to be the essence of the world.
The temperature is high in summer, and water-based essence is often used in cosmetics. They are made of fragrant flowers, such as magnolia, rose, jasmine and so on. , steamed into flower dew. When fragrance is added, sometimes natural flowers that don't exist will suddenly float out in a limited space.
One of the duties of the imperial doctor in Qing dynasty was to serve the inner nutrition and superficial beauty of concubines. What methods can be used to absorb digested nutrients, increase complexion and promote survival and metabolism, which not only tests the doctors' efforts of "seeing, listening and asking", but also tests their consideration of "deficiency and excess, cold and heat".
Therefore, there is no distinction between the "top ten" and "top eight" cuisines in the daily diet of Qing Palace, but attention is paid to reasonable nutritional components and how to be absorbed as much as possible. For example, those concubines who walk with the help of eunuchs seem to be "charming and lazy", but in fact they are a kind of "genuine fish". They actually prefer pork, trotters and pigskin.
I like to eat all kinds of imported herbal flowers, nectar and nuts in summer. In addition to beauty, it also has a significant effect on moisturizing the skin. They often eat elm, rose, lotus, osmanthus, chrysanthemum and so on.
The snacks of the concubines are all candied fruit. For example, Jin Fei likes to eat peaches, apricots and apples.
Hair is one of the standards of health. In ancient China, hairdressing and beauty were synchronized.
Of course, a long hair needs nutrition, but sesame is the first choice.
Often sesame seed cake is the exclusive secret recipe of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Eating walnuts and pine nuts regularly can nourish the brain and delay aging.
Empress Dowager Cixi ate all the year round, so she was not confused, but she had waist-high black hair.
The traditional customs of Manchu are still very tenacious in daily life. They attach importance to hairdressing and hair care. It is suffocating that their custom is never to wash their hair with water. So, how do they clean their hair?
Comb your hair every day and comb it thoroughly and repeatedly with a rare comb now. Must insist on combing every day, accompanied by rhythmic massage, to promote blood circulation.
Combs must be cleaned and arranged neatly after each use. Combs for various purposes are displayed in exquisite red wooden cases.
How to make hair close to scalp? Modern people certainly have many ways to do this, such as vaseline, hair wax, mousse and so on. And the concubines of the Qing court were all solved with very primitive things.
As we know, wood shavings can be seen everywhere, and the peach wood shavings used in the Qing Dynasty, after soaking for three to five days, become sticky, and are used to stick hair styles with good results. If you add Chinese herbal medicines that nourish your hair, the maintenance effect will be better, so you add something that can moisturize your hair to the peach gum.
Guangxu and Cixi are added with torreya nuts, walnut kernels and arborvitae leaves, mashed, soaked in snow water collected in winter, and used with shaving water. The procedure of maintaining hair is so complicated that only the Qing palace can have such leisure.
The reason why Li is so favored by Cixi is that Li has carefully studied the method of maintaining the hair of middle-aged Cixi, which makes the charming Empress Dowager Cixi overjoyed and inseparable for a moment.
Concluding remarks
The answer to this dusty paper is different from my usual answers about tombs, martial arts and wars, but it is also an integral part of history and involves the traditional beauty beauty method, so I will answer it.
Palace concubines are called beauties, but with the strengthening of imperial power, the palace is almost completely isolated from the people, and the people know little about the mysterious world behind the high palace walls. Even today, harem concubines are not widely known. Everyone's understanding of the harem basically comes from the Qing palace drama. So, are the harem in these film and television dramas consistent with historical facts?
Life lies in exercise. However, the harem concubines have lived in the deep palace for a long time, and the biggest exercise is just walking in the imperial garden, which is very slow. Over the years, most of them are weak and sick, and they have interacted with pills and decoction for many years. These concubines are the main suppliers of the Royal Pharmacy Bureau.
Although she is sick, concubines are also women and have the nature of loving beauty. In pursuit of beauty, they will make those gorgeous clothes, of course, beauty is also indispensable.
Empress Dowager Cixi is the epitome of these beauty methods. As the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, she held great power, but she also had the desire of ordinary women to love beauty. As she grew older, beauty and health care became an important part of her life.
First of all, leisure life. In addition to government affairs, Cixi has a colorful leisure life, such as watching plays, teasing dogs and playing cards. Secondly, food. Cixi pays great attention to diet. There are about 200 chefs and eunuchs in Shoushan Restaurant, and the ingredients are mostly fresh vegetables and delicacies. Every meal must be a combination of meat and vegetables, and the diet is by no means single. Meat and fruits and vegetables are different in every season. Eat hot food such as mutton and venison in winter and wild poria cocos, mountain vegetables and mushrooms in summer.
The last is the real beauty method. Cixi attaches great importance to this and spends a lot of time on it every day. She insists on washing her face with warm water every morning and evening, then massages facial acupoints with a massager to promote blood circulation, and then uses palace powder made in Yangzhou, rouge made in Suzhou and rose dew made in court to protect her beauty.
Cixi also believes in traditional Chinese medicine beauty, and often asks the court doctors to prescribe drugs and beauty according to the changes of skin. Her skin remained elastic until her later years.
Besides her face, Cixi attached great importance to her hair. She asked a doctor to study it specially, and prepared Chinese herbal medicines for hair care for her both orally and externally. The eunuchs and utensils for combing her hair are carefully selected to ensure that it does not hurt her hair.
The so-called bright eyes and white teeth, the care of teeth is also valued by Cixi. She uses Chinese medicine to protect her teeth, but she also uses medical equipment. Until her seventies, her teeth were still very good, and there were no oral diseases such as tooth loss and dental caries.
In addition, Cixi also ate pearl powder, tuckahoe cakes, painted her face with egg white, chewed ginseng, etc., which led to her charm in her later years.
Although there were no Namadu cosmetics and skin care products in ancient times, they were all women, and their love for beauty was the same, so they also had their own beauty methods, and they were all natural skin care products without chemicals. If you also like beauty, you might as well learn the practices of these concubines in the Qing Dynasty.
One: Coat the surface with egg white.
This is the most commonly used method. Women in the harem use this method to ensure the skin is delicate and smooth, that is, apply egg white on their faces or other parts, and then gently wipe it off with a towel later. Generally, within half a month, the face will be softer and more elastic, and the effect will be better after a long time.
Two: drink tremella soup
Everyone is familiar with tremella, also known as tremella. Among them, protein is helpful for beauty. Tremella can also tonify kidney, solidify essence, moisten lung and relieve cough, regulate blood, invigorate qi and strengthen brain. It is a good product for nourishing skin and moistening brain in yin beauty, and has special curative effect on beauty. It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi drank it every day, and other concubines followed suit.
Three: jade massage
I'm afraid this is only enjoyed by Empress Dowager Cixi. She specially trained many maids to massage their skin with jade, which can reduce wrinkles on their faces. Although Empress Dowager Cixi is annoying, girls really learn from her in beauty and body building. When people are in their fifties, their skin is very shiny and elastic. It is also said that when Sun Dianying stole the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, some soldiers had wild desires.
Four: hot compress
As the name implies, it is to apply steam to the face, and now many girls also use it. The concubines in the harem of the Qing Dynasty were pure as fire. They use a special silver basin, add spices, pour hot water, then soak hot water with a very soft and delicate towel and apply it according to the texture of the skin on their faces. After painting, they feel refreshed. They do this every day, and their skin is bright and shiny.
In fact, there are many more, such as whitening teeth, bathing, removing moles and dark spots, removing sweat stains, plucking hair and so on. But the most important point is what Empress Dowager Cixi said: "Go to bed early, don't stay up late"!
Women are always associated with beauty, or women are always pursuing beauty. Ancient women are no exception, not to mention the women in the harem. Let's take the Qing Dynasty as an example to see what kind of beauty beauty methods women in the harem have.
Women in the harem are served by slaves in any position, so they don't have to do it themselves, so they lack exercise. Besides, they are lonely in the palace. Most women are weak, and some even stay in bed for a long time. Therefore, they take all kinds of soups to protect their health. In addition to beauty, there is no good appearance without good health. Most of the drugs used by concubines were taken care of by imperial pharmacies in the Qing Dynasty, and different prescriptions had different effects. For example, the four-system Xiangfu Pill, which consists of Angelica sinensis, Green tangerine peel and Radix Rehmanniae, has the effect of soothing the liver and relieving depression. After people's depression is relieved, their color naturally becomes better.
Besides taking medicine, the harem of the Qing Dynasty also came to beauty beauty through diet therapy. This has to mention Empress Dowager Cixi, a beauty expert in the harem of the Qing Dynasty.
In order to maintain her appearance, Empress Dowager Cixi often eats all kinds of flowers, especially white chrysanthemums and lotus flowers, which can disperse wind and heat, clear fire and soothe the nerves. The servants picked fresh petals first and then cleaned them. Empress Dowager Cixi dipped these petals in the stew, which is probably the origin of chrysanthemum hot pot. In addition, Empress Dowager Cixi also bathed with petals and softened her skin with petal water. Pearl powder is another favorite of Empress Dowager Cixi. She often applies pearl powder to her face to make her skin smooth, white and shiny.
Taiping car, also known as jade roller, is a beauty instrument that Cixi loves to use. In fact, not only other concubines of Cixi also like to use it.
Jade rollers are mostly made of precious materials such as jade. They are T-shaped, with a rolling cross head at the top and a long handle in the middle. Holding the long handle, the horizontal head can roll back and forth on the face, which can promote blood circulation and accelerate metabolism. Jade roller is generally used with a special paste "Yurong Paste". It's best to apply cream first, and then massage your face with a jade roller. This jade roller is actually similar to the Japanese beauty bar 24k gold bars and ReFa beauty instrument, which are now half the sky red.
There are many beauty methods in the harem in Qing dynasty, so I won't list them one by one. In short, women's pursuit of beauty will not stop!
References:
Li Yin: Yongzheng and his Zhen Xuan.
The beauty secretary of the harem concubines