The ancients' methods of losing weight
Since ancient times, there have been rumors that "the king of Chu loved his waist and starved to death in the palace", which shows that the ancients lost weight for a long time. In fact, in addition to dieting to lose weight, the ancients also had the simplest way to lose weight-drinking tea.
The ancient method of breast enhancement
The ancient methods of breast enhancement were more natural, such as using red beans, soybeans and other supplements to achieve breast enhancement. In addition, the ancients believed that acupoint massage also contributed to chest surge.
An ancient method of hair removal
A long time ago, ancient women advocated shaving their eyebrows and painting them with black paint ... In addition, ancient women also popularized "face-pulling", which is said to have originated in the Sui Dynasty, that is, removing fine hairs from their faces with threads to make their faces look smoother.
At present, some ethnic minorities in China still keep the custom of "pulling face", but it is no longer used as a method of hair removal, but as a marriage custom, because the rapid, safe and thorough freezing point hair removal method no longer makes women worry about their hair.
Plastic surgery is still a mysterious technology for most people. When it comes to plastic surgery, we often think of plastic surgery technology in Korea, which is considered as modern medical technology. In fact, as early as ancient China, plastic surgery techniques such as artificial dimples and cleft lip repair had reached a very high level in the world at that time. ...
Everyone has a love of beauty, and the ancients are no exception.
When people are dissatisfied with their appearance or want to be more perfect, plastic surgery, as a medical means, gradually emerges in people's life practice. Looking through the historical materials, we can find that there were records about plastic surgery in China before the Han Dynasty. Moreover, whether at home or abroad, the plastic surgery of the human body began with body decoration such as earrings, nose rings, tattoos and artificial patterns.
The ancients also used fresh egg whites as masks.
According to historical records, there was piercing before the Han Dynasty in China, that is, the folk custom of piercing ears and wearing earrings for aesthetic purposes prevailed.
But the original style is not like modern earrings, but waist-drum-shaped, and the wearing method is different from later generations. Insert directly from the earlobe hole horizontally, and expose both ends outside the ear to show beauty. Later, it gradually developed into various styles of modern rings.
As early as the third century A.D., plastic surgery in the Jin Dynasty had made great progress. Gehong, a famous doctor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wrote "Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription", which is the first clinical first-aid manual and monograph of TCM therapeutics in China. The book ***8 volumes, 70 articles, formerly known as "Save the pawn after elbow", referred to as "elbow". In this book "Elbow Emergency Prescription", the method of treating facial scar with fresh egg white as mask is recorded. After that, there are records of various recipes and methods such as boiling pig's trotters into colloid to make masks.