Jianbao life

Chapter 439 Cosmetics thousands of years ago
Hearing this, Li Heng went to open it to look at the contents of the dowry.

After opening, there are many small boxes inside, each of which looks like the size of a child's palm, very miniature and exquisite.

On the left are what appear to be powder puffs, and on the right are some makeup tools.middle
There are brushes such as eyebrow trimmers, and there is even a compartment at the bottom that contains common tools for makeup such as combs, hair brushes, and rouge powder.

, but it looks a little bald or rusty.

"Boss, look at this Tang Dynasty gilt silver box with mandarin duck pattern. It's so big and so exquisite. It's definitely a good thing!" Old Qiantou smiled, reached out and picked up a small box and said to Li Heng.

"There is also the Western Han dressing box unearthed over there, which is a three-legged ceramic dowry... Although this item is not common, it is still an old object, and any one is worth several thousand."

"Is there still such a thing left?" Li Heng asked curiously, "I know that women in ancient times could dress up, but this is the first time I've seen it."

"Hehe, yes. After all, everyone loves beauty. Applying some cosmetics to your face can immediately improve your beauty to a higher level. What a good thing it is!" The old money man laughed happily. He put the things back in his hands without hesitation, and took Li Heng to look at several related things.

"Look at this painting, it is the "Picture of Ladies" unearthed in the Tang Dynasty. The ladies and dancing girls shown on it all have a special face decoration on their faces, and a red curved crescent is drawn on each temple. , and some will deliberately depict it as broken, like two scars added to the white face, this kind of decoration is called 'slanted red'."

"So the legacy of ancient makeup is not only thank you, but there is even a poem called "Jade Girl Dressing Up", which is about the time when the beauty is washing and dressing in front of the dressing mirror."

The content of that poem is:

"The rising sun shines on the window of Xiaoxuan, and the girl next door is doing her makeup.

The cool breeze blows through the red tent, and it is suspected that a beautiful lady has entered the embroidery room. "

In ancient times, girls regarded marrying a good husband as the most important task in their life, so of course they valued beauty more.

Li Heng nodded while listening, carefully opened the top powder box in the dowry drawer, and saw that there was still that white powder inside.

This powder is called makeup powder.

Makeup powder, as the name suggests, is the foundation that is often heard in modern times.

The ancient foundation is called makeup powder, and the earliest recorded makeup powder began in the Warring States Period.In some relevant records, it is divided into two categories according to the different ingredients: the first kind is made from rice flour, and the second kind is made from white lead.

In "Han Feizi", the word "Zhi Ze Fen Dai" appeared.

This shows that the appearance of makeup powder was at least earlier in the Warring States period.However, there are still countless theories about who invented makeup powder. For example, "Yu made powder" is recorded in "Taiping Yulan"; "Songs of Chu·Da Zhao" is recorded in "Pink White Black Black, Shi Fangze"...

There are different opinions, but they can all prove that makeup powder has been around for a long time.

Li Heng rummaged through the layers, and found many cosmetic styles that were obviously collected in different periods.

Not only makeup powder, but also Luozidai, rouge, lipstick paper and so on.

It has to be said that beauty has always been the subject of eternal pursuit of human beings. There are such things as "one white cover one hundred ugliness", "a daughter who pleases herself" and so on.

There must be such things in antiques, but it is a pity that most people who play antiques are men, and they are really not interested in women's things.

Therefore, these goods have been accumulated in the hands of old moneymen and have not been able to sell them.

But the old money man didn't seem to care about those things, so he just let it go and watched, and he was happy.

At this time Liu Guangming came up from behind and said: "What is this you are looking at...can it be eaten?"

"What is edible? It's white lead powder, used for makeup!" Li Heng couldn't laugh or cry, why is his brother so stupid, he has such a strange expression when he sees everything.

"Lead powder? Isn't that heavy metal poisoning!" Liu Guangming clicked his tongue.

"Yes, heavy metal poisoning. But in human history, people still flock to it for the sake of beauty." Li Heng said with a smile.

This is true. In the history of mankind, countless people have paid a painful price for beauty.

Those face powders, rouge, lipsticks and other things that circulated in the market in ancient times were all handmade by craftsmen, and they did not have the various specifications of modern aseptic production and disinfection production. Contains toxic ingredients such as mercury, lead, and arsenic.

Women regard white as beauty and admire fair makeup very much.Lead can be absorbed through the skin, causing hair loss, weight loss, brain damage, organ disease, and a myriad of other complications.

Long-term use of this excessive makeup powder will cause wrinkles and scars, and the most terrible thing is that to cover this blemish, more makeup powder must be used, forming a vicious circle that keeps going round and round.

But what about poisonous?That's not too bad.

There are even some people who deliberately get sick for the peach blossom face, blurred eyes, pitiful, weak and graceful posture.

(End of this chapter)