The crystal clear and exquisite breast culture in ancient China: What does it mean to newly peel the head of a chicken?

The ancient breast culture in China is objective. At least in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, some literati's brushstrokes and eyes have begun to pay attention to the aesthetic object of female breasts. Among them, Zhao Luan, a geisha and literati in Tang Dynasty, is famous for his poems describing women's bathing. The poem says: "The powder is fragrant and sweaty in heptachlor, the spring is crisp and the frost melts. After taking a bath in Tan Lang, the flowers are cold and the purple grapes are soaked. " The poem creatively compares women's breasts to crystal clear purple grapes, thus making China women's breasts enter the cultural level, and "purple grapes" became a classic image in China's ancient breast culture. At the same time, this core image reveals the great difference between China's ancient breast culture and western breast culture: in the west, breasts were beautiful only when they were big, while in ancient China, breasts were beautiful only when they were small.

To give a typical example, in people's impression, the Tang Dynasty required women's bodies to be full of beauty. When the body is full, the breasts will naturally be big. This is what the so-called "Yan Shouhuan is fat" means. However, this does not seem to be the case. Take Yang Guifei as an example. An anecdote of Yang Guifei is recorded in various note novels, such as Love History and Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is said that Yang Guifei was drunk once and her clothes slipped to reveal her breasts. Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, held his breast in one hand and said, "Soft and tender skin." An Lushan immediately added: "The greasy initial setting is stuffed with crisp." Regardless of the different meanings contained in the story, you really can't see how big Yang's chest is just about the "dog head". The so-called "chicken head" here does not refer to the chicken in poultry, but an aquatic plant named "Euryale ferox". Its fruit protrudes out of the water and looks like a chicken head, commonly known as "chicken head" or "chicken head fruit". Its appearance is covered with spikes, and its seeds can be seen when peeled off. Very delicate and tender, much like pomegranate seeds. It can be seen that even in the so-called Tang Dynasty, people's requirements for women's breasts do not seem to care about the size of their shapes, but about their crystal-clear and delicate texture.

In fact, "the head of a chicken" or "the head of a chicken" has become another classic image in China's ancient breast culture. "Joe Taishou Gege" describes the chest of a woman Hui Niang: "A pair of small breasts, plump and protruding, soft as cotton; Nipples are like chicken heads, very cute. " "Zhu Lin unofficial history" describes a scene of flirting with: "(Mizi) pulls (Su E) Luo shirt forward, revealing a pair of nipple, white and tender, like freshly steamed chicken head meat, and the nipple is a little red, which is really terrible." In the poems of some ancient literati in China, although women's breasts were not directly compared to the heads of chickens, the words used to describe women's breasts were actually similar to the heads of chickens. For example, the first four sentences of Sun Yuanxiang's poem "That's it" in the Qing Dynasty: "Looking under the crystal curtain, half the arm will cover the frankincense; The skin is really like snow, and people are not allowed to catch cold. " Another example is the poem "Qinyuanchun" by A Qing and Chen Yuqian: "Snow peaks, and fragrance is exposed, like a pair of pearls. At the beginning, I wanted to make a bun, but Xu Long gradually got up, and the red socks tied hard. There seems to be nothing, but the head of a chicken is Moby and the autumn water is white jade skin. You know what else? I am sorry to ask about the taste. " Zhu Yizun, a great writer in the early Qing Dynasty, and his friend Dong Yining (a Neo-Confucianist in the early Qing Dynasty) once sang "Qinyuanchun" to each other, with the theme of women's breasts. There is a cloud in "Zhu Ci": "The chest is green, the hair is even, and it is fragrant. Like the green leaves of Lolo, the newly fallen tung tree and the purple medicine of Ying Ying, the lotus house was suddenly broken. Shawn Dou contains spring, flowers turn over Ludi, and two or five chicken intestines are the shortest. To make matters worse, there is a touch of fiber, which is a red wall. " There is a cloud in Dong Ci: "Keep your hands, your chest should be slightly stained, and your soul should be sold at two o'clock. Stunned by the cage shadow, the snow is floating, the purple tip is faint, and the grapes are about to drip. Talk about crispness, don't exaggerate, jade runzhu is more tolerant than round. When I open my mouth, I want to borrow the powder. Flowers are hard to get rid of. " It is not difficult to see that when describing women's breasts in the above poems, except for traditional images such as "grapes" and "the head of a chicken", the same metaphor is used, that is, "curly hair" or "curly hair". What is this? The general name of beans is also; The budding bean sprouts were also born. Obviously, in China's ancient breast culture, women's breasts are really synonymous with freshness and delicacy. This kind of fresh and small breasts are also called "clove milk" by busybodies. In other words, in China's ancient breast culture, people were not optimistic about breast augmentation, but obsessed with the so-called clove milk. This should be a cultural phenomenon with China characteristics.