But some people really don't care about their black faces. This is a famous person, Wang Anshi. One day, his good friend Lv Huiqing said to him, "You have black spots on your face. Let me tell you a remedy. Wash it with coriander and you can wash it off. " Wang Anshi said, "My face is black, not black spots." Lv Huiqing said: "Coriander can also wash away the black." Wang Anshi smiled: "I was born black. What's the use of coriander? "
It's not a big problem for a man to have dark spots on his face, but it's a little troublesome if he gets pitted. The ancients called the scar left by chickenpox on the face "pock scar", and even more elegantly called it "Tianqi". In the Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar named Xu Wei who wrote a hymn for a portrait of a man who was painted as Tianqi. It's really hard for Xu Wei to boast that his face looks like this. Xu Wei was really at a loss and wrote directly: melons and scorpions are white and fat, so they can only make pickles; The trunk of pine and cypress is scaly, but it is a pillar. Judging from your appearance, you must not be a melon, but a pine and cypress ... Is there such a compliment?
Tattooing a prisoner's face is a punishment. Especially in the Song Dynasty, it was widely used. Song Jiang, Lin Chong and others have stabbed in Water Margin. Wei Tai's "Dong Xuan Lu" tells a story with a tattoo on his face: a man named Lu Dong was sentenced in Suzhou and became the agent of the magistrate. He sentenced a criminal to exile, so he tattooed a few words on his face: "For a state prison city".
After the words were tattooed, the men put forward different opinions: "Leader, this is not right. The word' special' means that we shouldn't have done it, but for some reason, we made an exception. Didn't you say that he was innocent at this point, but was sent by court rules? That's not true. This person should have been sent, and there is another' special' that doesn't make sense. It is time to investigate in the future. "
Hearing this, the Dong Liu got a fright. He immediately called the prisoner and tattooed it again, changing the word "special stab" to "quasi-stab". The hapless prisoner suffered twice.
Gu Kuang in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Yulin said that Gu Kuang was always at odds with his colleagues. Once after quarreling with the leader, I said angrily, "I dreamed that my mouth and nose were fighting for merit, and my mouth said,' I am talking about right and wrong in ancient and modern times, and your nose is silent." Why are you above me? "The nose said,' What's the matter? I can't tell the difference between dieting and dieting! The eyes say to the nose,' I can see the far end, and I can see the far sky. I'm the first one, and I have to be above it. Then he raised his eyebrows and asked,' What's the use of you, still above me? Eyebrows:' What's the matter? I'm useless, like a guest raised by my master. But if you don't have guests, you won't show your strength. How can you see people if you don't have eyebrows?' "
Gu Kuang said this, it was for those high above and useless guys to see, just like eyebrows, it was purely cosmetic surgery. There is a cross talk called "Five Senses Striving for the Upstream", which may be the earliest source.
Fortunately, Gu Kuang's words made the leader feel reasonable, and he got better again.
During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there was an Anxi official named Liu, who was eloquent and especially good at playing right. Tang Xuanzong liked him very much. Liu is like this, with a yellow beard, especially like a monkey. As for Tang Xuanzong, he always pushed him on this matter. The Tang book "The Legend of Kaiyuan" said that Liu once wanted to see the emperor again. Tang Xuanzong called Huang Youzhuo, the master of banter around him, and said to him, "See Liu tomorrow, and you can laugh at me." Knowing that the emperor was choking, Liu found Huang Youzhuo and gave him many gifts: "I hate it when people call me a monkey." No matter what you say tomorrow, don't say I look like a monkey. "
The next day, in front of the emperor and Liu, Huang Qiuzhuo said this: "Poor Liu, don't live with a moustache." Wen Shu's face is not like a face, but a face. "You don't like a monkey, but the monkey insists on being like you.
Smiled, knowing that Huang Zan Chuo must have accepted Liu's benefits. But I was still very happy, so I didn't pursue it again.
The general's face is too important. If he looks bad and hits the enemy, the effect may be discounted. Jiao Fangji and Yuefu Miscellanies both tell stories about face. To sum up, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Changgong, the grandson of Emperor Gao Huan and a soldier in Lanling, was always the first to break into the enemy's ranks. Equally bad, he looks a little girlish and has a girlish face, which affects the effect of the war. Gao Changgong thought of a way to make a big mask and put it on his face when he got cold feet. This time, the momentum is really like a rainbow, and the victory is in hand. This was the beginning of the mask ―― later, in some music that needed to be grand, the masked man appeared. For example, drumming, drummers in the court of the Tang Dynasty, all wore masks and held drumsticks.
Similar things still exist. Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech is one of them. In 2006, Cech was kicked by his opponent in skull fracture. After the injury, Cech wears a mask every game. There is a saying that this is a doctor's order to protect Cech's face; In other words, Cech must wear a mask to feel at ease, otherwise there will always be shadows. Anyway, Cech will always wear this mask unless he retires. The mask also became a symbol of Cech.
Put a mask on yourself, shameless, in fact, shameless