What was the image of China in the eyes of ancient Westerners?

I think China should still be relatively strong at that time, whether it is in terms of economy or culture, so I still have a little admiration for Chinese culture!

Very shy. Westerners are more open, while Chinese are more reserved. They feel that Chinese are easily shy.

The god-like existence is unbelievable! In the eyes of ancient Westerners, the Chinese were gentle, self-sufficient, and rich in products, and the silk they wore was simply God's use!

After the middle of the 19th century, the portrayal of Chinese by Westerners has undergone great changes, mainly in the following aspects:

The content of the description is more comprehensive: instead of focusing only on China's economic and political conditions, after the middle of the 19th century, Westerners began to pay attention to China's cultural oakholes, art, customs, habits, religion, etc. Their knowledge of Chinese culture is more comprehensive and in-depth, as well as more respectful and understanding.

The way of depiction is more objective: in previous depictions, Westerners often had subjective bias, even belittling and ridicule of Chinese. After the middle of the 19th century, Westerners were more objective in their descriptions, without excessive subjective evaluation, and paid more attention to factual descriptions and objective analysis.

The perspective of the description is more diverse: In the past, Westerners mainly described Chinese from their own perspective, using Western culture and values as the standard to evaluate China. After the middle of the 19th century, Westerners began to pay more attention to the views and values of Chinese, and evaluated and described China by Chinese's own standards.

In short, after the middle of the 19th century, Westerners' depictions of Chinese figures buried in dust have undergone great changes, shifting from a single political and economic level to a comprehensive, objective and diversified depiction. This reflects the deepening and improvement of Westerners' knowledge and understanding of China.

Under the influence of Western culture, what changes have taken place in the appearance and aesthetics of Chinese people? Aesthetics is actually a highly subjective social activity. Whether Westerners look good or not is essentially determined by the cultural level.

At present, non-Western countries, including China, are relatively weak in the field of world culture, so they are dominated by the West in terms of aesthetic consciousness, so many people have formed a kind of worship for the appearance of Westerners, thinking that Westerners are good-looking.

So when did the Chinese aesthetic begin to return? It depends on the development of China's national strength. Obviously, with China in.

With the rapid development after the reform and opening up, especially the rapid growth of strength in the past 20 years, the status of Chinese traditional culture is rising rapidly, and at the same time, China's traditional cultural aesthetics are gradually returning to the dominant position. The Western-style aesthetic won't be dominant for long, but it will continue for a while. Western aesthetics, along with the relative decline of Western power, will gradually fade its influence in the world.

But why do we think that Europeans and Americans are good-looking now, this is the United States' historical psychological warfare and its universal promotion strategy of values, the psychological research of the United States people was carried out very early and deep, and they know the essence of it, so they apply cultural propaganda, rice movies, beautify their people and their country, from heroes, justice, Westernization of high-end, high-end science and technology, so as to assimilate the corresponding position of the brain, so as to be recognized and appreciated The beautiful brain cognition, so as to be beautified.

As for the acceptance of Chinese aesthetics by Westerners, it is essentially a matter of power comparison, which is just another embodiment of the above statement. In the case of the superiority of its own strength, the West will of course dominate itself, but with the loss of its own strength, its aesthetic dominance will naturally change. Historically, for example, the ancient Romans regarded the blond, blue-eyed Germanic people as barbarians, so they disdained this look.

And even earlier, the ancient Egyptians were unimpressed with the appearance of the Europas. In the late Middle Ages in Europe, there was also a Chinese craze, and Chinese aesthetics were highly respected. It can be seen that there have also been times of aesthetic inferiority in European history.

This is essentially the result of cultural inferiority. After China's overall strength is strong, the current cultural power balance will be reversed, and the aesthetics of Westerners themselves may change.

Here's an example. In the past, girls were all big-eyed, round-faced, and small-nosed, which was delicate and good-looking. Now girls need to have charming eyes, a high nose bridge, a small nose, and a melon seed face (maybe a little smaller) to look good.

I used makeup, contoured when I put on makeup, brought a silk scarf when I went out, and wore some darker clothes in the summer for sunscreen scarves.

Chinese people feel that the three-dimensional facial features are very good-looking, and the aesthetics of appearance have undergone serious changes, and some changes have also taken place in clothing.

I don't like to wear tight clothes, I don't like to wear formal clothes, I don't like black hair, I don't like to dress too conservatively, I don't like to dress too plainly.

Women like people with high nose bridges very much, and they are also very popular with white **, and they also like people with three-dimensional facial features.

In the eyes of ancient Westerners, China was a very powerful superpower, which had many resources that they did not have, and they were very envious of China's vast land and resources.

In the eyes of Westerners, they think that China is a country with a history and ancient culture, and they think that China is full of treasures.

God-like beings. Because of the traffic blockage in ancient times, foreigners have never been to China, but have only seen Chinese silk, which represents China, gorgeous and noble, mysterious and sacred.

In fact, in the eyes of Western countries, China was a very prosperous period from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, but it began to close itself off from the country in the later period, and then it fell behind economically.

It should be very wealthy, because once there was a man named Marco Polo who wrote a travelogue describing the ** everywhere in ancient China.

In Marco Polo's pen, China is a rich country, ** everywhere. Desirable.

In ancient times, the West believed that China was a country full of the world, and that China in the East was the richest and most beautiful place in the world.