The most impressive thing in the movie is the feeling of the Khoisan "Qi" when he first met the white girl Kate: "Kate is the ugliest person he has ever seen. Her skin is white as if she crawled out of rotten wood. Like; her hair is long and white, and it feels like she should be very old; she is so big, you need to spend a whole day to find enough food to feed her; she still uses it (silly) on such a hot day The (disused) spider web covers the body.” From this passage, we can see that the aesthetic standards of Khoisan and Western society are very different.
Aesthetic standards are extremely time-sensitive and subjective. Due to different political, economic, cultural and other environments in different periods, there will be considerable gaps in aesthetic standards.
Let us look at the changes in the aesthetic standards of girls in different periods abroad:
Stone Age: The ideal girl is particularly plump (refer to Willendorf’s Venus sculpture);
Ancient Egypt: Beautiful women are thin, with narrow shoulders and high waistlines;
Ancient Greek period: Everyone likes girls with plump body, light skin, and two eyebrows connected together (girls will deliberately leave the eyebrows thick);
The Italian Renaissance: Good-looking girls are plump, have a small belly, light and thin skin (the kind that can see blood vessels), light-colored hair, and cerebrum;
Elizabethan period: Girls with light skin and lipstick were the most beautiful (people at that time believed that lipstick could drive away death);
Victorian period: The perfect girl is thin and has a very thin waist;
1890: Popular Gibson girl with white skin, waistband, and showing real curves (this image was not originally from a real girl. It came from a painting by the famous American illustrator Charles Gibson);
20th century: Everyone likes girls with thin, short hair and full of heroic spirit (girls have begun to vote in the United States, and they want to be able to look like more powerful men);
1930s: Normal body shape became popular, and men's clothing began to be worn (due to the economic depression, weight loss was not a concern);
1950s (Hollywood Golden Age): Curvy beauty began to be popular (refer to Marilyn Monroe), and girls all wish they had an hourglass figure;
1960s (London's fashion business became prosperous): The most beautiful girls are tall and thin, with long slender legs;
1980s: The fit, slim and curvy figure is the most popular. The most popular ones are tall girls with healthy complexion and toned arm lines (the number of people suffering from anorexia has increased during this period);
90s: Very skinny and pathological beauty became popular (refer to supermodel Kate Moss);
The standards of postmodern beauty: flat belly, healthy thin, hourglass figure (refer to Kim Kardashian);
The standards for beauties in different eras in our country are as follows:
Pre-Qin: tall;
Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period: Weak and obedient;
Han Dynasty: exquisite and intelligent, face like fat, small cherry mouth, light skin, light body, big eyes, slender waist, small feet, red lips and white teeth, long black hair;
Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: advocating the beauty of personality and natural beauty;
Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties period: gorgeous, beautiful, and fat as beauty;
Song and Yuan period: simple and elegant, weak and delicate, shaved shoulders, willow waist, slim feet;
Ming and Qing Dynasties: both inside and outside;
During the Republic of China: Lin Huiyin, represented by the overseas female literary youth, led the middle-part hairstyle and popular slender curvy eyebrows;
5. 1960s: The body should be strong and energetic;
7, 80s: sweet (refer to Teresa Teng);
Postmodern: The standards of beauty have become more diverse. Individual and gentle girls can be beautiful. Although most girls still pursue white skin, dark-skinned beauties are gradually being recognized, and their aesthetic concepts have become more inclusive.
The aesthetic standard is not fixed, it changes gradually with different environments. In the Internet age, some people have predicted that aesthetic standards will change more quickly. Instead of strenuously chasing the standard of beauty, it is better to look in the mirror to learn to accept and appreciate your own appearance.
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