#Blood Halo Makeup / 血晕妆

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【Hairstyle & Makeup Reference Artifacts】

♦️China Tang Dynasty Mural from:【Anyang Tang Dynasty Zhao Yigong’s Tomb/安阳唐赵逸公墓壁画】

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty(618-907A.D)Traditional Clothing Refer to Tang Dynasty murals

Woman’in Emperor Wenzong of Tang period ​​​

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【Chinese Animation “Yao Chinese Folktales” X Tang Dynasty Hanfu]

EP02-<Goose Goose Goose /鹅鹅鹅>Summry

The story of "Goose Goose Goose" is adapted from the tales of the miraculous " Yangxian Scholar/阳羡书生 " (also known as: Goose Cage Scholar/ 鹅笼书生 )  by Wu Jun, a writer of the China Southern Dynasty. 

 It tells the story of a young peddler who helped an injured fox scholar in the mountains. The scholar invited the peddler to drink and felt bored when drinking so he spit out his sweetheart rabbit monster from his mouth. Then, he also invited his sweetheart man out of his mouth. 

After a while, the fox scholar was drunk and took a nap beside the peddler; the rabbit monster took advantage of the fox scholar to fall asleep and spits out her lover who are a boar monster.The boar monster also took advantage of the rabbit monster to take care of the fox scholar, and spit out his lover from his mouth：A felmale goose monster.

And the goose monster unexpectedly made the pedlar's heartbeat.Thay talk a lot and the goose monster longing for the world beyond the mountain, and asking pedlar to take her out of the mountain, she will turn into a goose and live in his goose cage.

But suddenly, the fox scholar woke up, the boar monster quickly put the goose girl monster back into her mouth, and the rabbit monster quickly put the boar monster into her mouth, finally the fox scholar put the rabbit monster back into her mouth.

From the point of view of the theme, this work belongs to the type of story that explores the psychological changes of the human heart.

Many of the costumes and makeup of the Monster in the animation refer to Tang Dynasty & Ming Dynasty,China. For Example:

 “Blood Halo Makeup/血晕妆 from “安阳唐赵逸公墓壁画・仕女图/Anyang Tang Zhao Yigong's Tomb Murals”,Tang Dynasty,China. 

・China Ming Dynasty Portrait： Portrait Zhang Qingzi(张卿子) by Zeng Jing

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[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty(618-906 A.D)Traditional Clothing Photoshoot

【About Hairstyle “堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]”】

During the Tang Dynasty, Li Shan(李善) quoted "record of the Customs/《风俗通》" recorded : “‘堕马髻者，侧在一边’，......始自梁冀所为，京师翁然皆效之”。

 ( “堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]” is a hairstyle with a side hair bun. It was created by Liang Ji's family and later imitated by the people in the capital.)

The characteristic of this hairstyle is that the hair hangs sideways to the shoulders, and a lock of hair is separated from the bun to scatter freely. If  combine with “啼妆(Makeup that make people look like they are crying)” and “愁眉(sad looking brows)“, it will look like a woman who has just fallen from a horse, which can increase a woman's sense of charm.

The“堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]”appeared again during the Tianbao era(742–756) of the Tang Dynasty, and became popular during the Zhenyuan period(785–805) of the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, some people described the shape of roses hanging down and petals gently touch the ground, like the hairstyle “堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]”. “堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]”has slightly changed from generation to generation, but its basic characteristics, the sideways and inverted shapes, have not changed. “堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]” is mainly favored by married middle-aged women.

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“堕马髻 [duò mǎ jì]” hairstyle originated in the Han Dynasty, during the Han Dynasty, "《后汉书∙卷六十四∙列传第二十四∙梁冀》" recorded:

 “寿色美而善为妖态，作愁眉，啼妆，堕马髻，折腰步，齲齿笑，以为媚惑。冀亦改易舆服之制，作平上軿车，埤帻，狭冠，折上巾，拥身扇，狐尾单衣。寿性钳忌，能制御冀，冀甚宠惮之。”

Translation：

Liang Ji(梁冀)'s wife Sun Shou(孙寿) is very beautiful and good at being "bewitching”. She make “愁眉(sad looking brows)“,“啼妆(Makeup that make people look like they are crying)”,as shown below:

“堕马髻(comb your hair bun on one side)” ,”折腰步(refers to swinging the waist when walking)”, as shown below:

“龋齿笑(Refers to a woman's intentionally contrived smile that looks like a toothache, although is very happy inside, woman don’t laugh out loud)”, she thinking these makeup & action that will make her very cute and to attract men.

Sun Shou is jealousy because she can subdue his husband Liang Ji. Liang Ji dotes on her very much, but is also afraid of her.Sun Shou's actions and the makeup she created were deeply loved by women in the imperial city of the Han Dynasty at that time, and they imitated her. And this trend gradually spread to other cities.

which has record in  《搜神记∙卷六∙梁冀妻》：

“汉桓帝元嘉中，京都妇女作“愁眉”“啼妆”“堕马髻”“折腰步”“龋齿笑。”“愁眉”者，细而曲折。“啼七”者，薄拭目下若啼处。“堕马髻”者，作一边。“折腰步”者，足不在下体。“龋齿笑”者，若齿痛，乐不欣欣。始自大将军梁冀妻孙寿所为，京都翕然，诸夏效之。天戒若曰：“兵马将往收捕：妇女忧愁，踧眉啼哭；吏卒掣顿，折其腰脊，令髻邪倾；虽强语笑，无复气味也。”

But these trend is actually portending a tragic end.

天戒若曰：“兵马将往收捕：妇女忧愁，踧眉啼哭；吏卒掣顿，折其腰脊，令髻邪倾；虽强语笑，无复气味也。”

Translation：

Heaven warned: "The army will come to arrest, the women are sad, frowning and crying; the officials and jailers push and kick, break their waists and spines, and make their hair buns tilt; even if they are forced to talk and laugh, they will no longer have that mood." 

In the second year of Yanxi(159 AD), the whole clan and family of Liang Ji's was exterminated.

In Chinese history, it is not difficult to found that when a kind of makeup or fashion that tends to show"sad”，“crying" etc,and becomes popular among women. In many cases,It heralds the imminent demise of a dynasty.

Just like the "Blood Halo Makeup/血晕妆" in the late Tang era and popular in the Han, Tang and Southern Song Dynasty brows makeup “愁眉(sad looking brows)“.When these makeups appeared, the empire also getting weakened.

Therefore, Chinese literati and scholars of in history criticized these fashion/trend, and believed that it was a sign of the collapse of the country.

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China 【Tang Dynasty】Culture Relic：《安阳唐赵逸公墓壁画・仕女图/Anyang Tang Zhao Yigong's Tomb Murals ・"The Ladies"》（P2 & P4）

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Woman' attire and makeup in Tang Wenzong period ​​​

🔸 About the makeup in the historical records  ：

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According to 《Tang Yulin Volume VI / 唐语林•卷六 》: "In Changqing (821-824 AD, the tomb was built in AD 829), when the woman removed their eyebrows, they draw red and purple three or four horizontal lines around their eyes, which was called “Blood Halo Makeup / 血晕妆 ”. The makeup of the two women in the Anyang mural tomb is an pictorial illustration of " Blood Halo Makeup". Bai Juyi's poem said: "“铅粉凝春态，金钿耀水嬉。风流夸堕髻，时世斗啼眉”", which is exactly the description and summary of the women's dressing and makeup at that time.

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