Guifei sheep placenta Yuhong Ointment
"As long as she turned her head and smiled, she cast a hundred spells, and the powder and paint in the Sixth Hospital went up in smoke." This is a famous sentence by Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, which describes Yang Guifei's charm in the year of Song of Eternal Sorrow. The reason why she can be "three thousand charming and charming in one" is inseparable from her beauty and makeup artist. Yang Guifei's commonly used cosmetics are called "Yuhong ointment", and later generations also call it "Yang Taizhen Yuhong ointment".
The formula is almond, talc, calomel, borneol, musk and egg white. The adjustment method is to grind almond, talc and calomel into fine powder, steam in a cage, then add borneol and musk, mix well with egg white and apply it to your face every morning.
According to the relevant literature, this party can "make the complexion rosy and pleasing to the eye, and be as red as ruby after ten days".
Wu Zetian extracted the formula of motherwort noodles in Tianhou.
Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in the history of China. Because of his unusual beauty, at the age of fourteen, he was elected to the palace by Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, and became a gifted scholar. After the death of Emperor Taizong, she left the palace to become a nun. Later, when Li Zhi became emperor, he called her into the palace and became Li Zhi's favorite concubine, Tang Gaozong, who was soon named as the queen. After her death, she became the "Holy Emperor" and changed her name to Zhou, becoming the only female emperor in ancient China.
Wu Zetian has been popular in politics for more than 40 years because she is "rich and powerful, but good at employing people", which is also closely related to her natural beauty and good at makeup and beauty. Wu Zetian's beauty secret recipe was included in the newly revised materia medica compiled during Wu Zetian's period, and it was named "Tianmotherwort Ze Mian Fang". The Tang dynasty's "secrets of foreign Taiwan" named it "refining motherwort to protect the face".
The recipe is to pick the whole motherwort on May 5th, dry it in the sun, pound it into powder, and knead the flour into balls with water, such as the size of an egg. After drying in the sun, put it in the stove to burn. First spread a layer of charcoal on the bottom of the medicine, and then cover it with another layer of charcoal. When you start cooking with strong fire, simmer for a day and a night. At this time, motherwort turned white. Take out the medicine and cool it thoroughly, pour it into a porcelain bowl, grind it into fine powder, and put it in a storage bottle to seal it to avoid getting wet. Take twelve taels of motherwort ash each time, add one tael of talc and one yuan of rouge, grind evenly and wipe your face.
Because Wu Zetian used this beauty secret recipe for a long time, she was still as young as a girl in her twenties when she was forty or fifty years old. At the age of 83, she still maintains a beautiful face like jade.
According to the newly revised Materia Medica, the function of this prescription is to "keep the appearance beautiful, reduce wrinkles, scrub for a long time, and make the appearance as jade".
Zhang Lihua Meirenhong
Li Yu, the ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, was a famous romantic emperor. Although he had no way to govern the country, he made great achievements in Ci, leaving many immortal works for future generations. For example, "How much sadness can you ask me, like a river flowing eastward?" "Cochineal tears, intoxicating, how heavy? Nature is that people hate water growing in the East "and so on, which are all well-known famous sentences.
Li Houzhu is not only good at phrasing words and sentences, but also knows everything about temperament and makeup. Because of this, his concubines also pay great attention to clothing and makeup. Li Houzhu has a beloved wife named Zhang Lihua, who tries her best to find the beauty secret recipe to win the favor of the queen. Finally, I found a beauty secret in the pillow of the Queen Mother of the West in China. After using it, it became very beautiful, so it was favored by Li Houzhu in all aspects.
Here is an egg and one or two cinnabar. When preparing, first grind cinnabar into fine powder, then make a small hole in the egg to remove yellow and slag.
According to the elbow emergency prescription, "this kind of egg powder is coated on the surface, which makes people tender, smooth and charming." Cinnabar, cinnabar, mainly used as red pigment here. When this prescription is applied to the face, it can make the face white and red, smooth and delicate, not only can it remove pigmentation on the face, but also prevent skin aging and wrinkles.
This recipe is Zhang Lihua's beauty secret recipe, so people later called it "Zhang Guifei batter". In the Ming Dynasty, Judy, the father of Cheng Zu, was very knowledgeable and made some improvements. He turned cinnabar into rouge and added a small amount of brine sand, which was widely used in the palace. After the empresses used it, they all looked like jade. So, later, this party won the reputation of "beauty".
Cixi drinks human milk and ginseng.
Empress Dowager Cixi in Qing Dynasty is a famous political figure in China's modern history, and also a woman who pays great attention to health and beauty. According to historical records, Cixi's body was well maintained until her later years, especially her face. Because of proper maintenance, even in her sixties, she still has a good face, few wrinkles, smooth and white.
Every morning after washing, Cixi will drink a glass of milk and eat a teaspoon of pearl powder, then lie on the bed and let the eunuch gently coat her face with a layer of "flower liquid" soaked in fresh peach blossoms picked in spring. Wait ten minutes, and then gently wipe it off with a soft towel. Cixi likes to eat poria cocos cakes. According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, "Poria cocos is flat in nature, sweet and light in taste, calming the nerves, refreshing the brain, nourishing the stomach, moistening skin and caring skin." In Yuan Huan Shi Lu, Cixi ordered the chef to "mix 70% of white japonica rice, 30% of white glutinous rice, 30% of Poria cocos, lotus seed meat, longan meat, Gordon Euryale seed rice and yam, steam and slice. Cixi often orders chefs to make tuckahoe cakes and rewards her ministers at festivals.
It contains ginseng to replenish vitality. This is another beauty technique of Cixi. The life activity of the body depends on the supplement of qi and blood. Harmony of qi and blood leads to vigorous spirit, strong body, beautiful appearance and endless diseases. Therefore, regulating qi and blood is very important for women, and Cixi knows this well. According to the "Ginseng Book of Empress Dowager Cixi", from November 23rd, 26th year of Guangxu to September 18th, 27th year of Guangxu, * * * three hundred and thirty-one, ginseng was two catties and one hundred and twenty-one yuan. That is, one yuan a day, daily clothes. " It is said that Cixi's 73-year-old life span is also due to this.