Why did women in ancient China have single eyelids, why did they not have double eyelids?

There must be double eyelids, but for aesthetic reasons, many ancient painters would draw pictures of ladies with single eyelids, and the face would be very rounded.

In fact, there are very few women in reality who have double eyelids, but they have made double eyelids through some makeup and surgery. In ancient times, it was just a truthful painting of the appearance of a woman.

Perhaps because there has not been much change in ancient art and culture, the first painter may have painted a single eyelid with skill or personal aesthetics, and all the students followed to learn from the teacher, forming a tradition one by one, and the lady must be a single eyelid.

Because the aesthetics of the past dynasties are not static, such as the Tang people advocating Yan Yan and plump, and the Ming and Qing dynasties advocating delicate and gentle.

Why are the ancient beauties of Yanhengyou all one-eyed and rough-skinned? Blockade.

I don't know if you have found an interesting phenomenon. The beauties in ancient Chinese ladies' paintings are all single eyelids. Although the painters of the time would adjust the pose of the women a little, their preference for single eyelids did not change.

In fact, not only ancient painters liked single eyelids, but ancient people basically had single eyelids. Occasionally, one or two double eyelids appear, which still feel weird. Modern people can't help but ask:

Are Han Chinese all purebred single eyelids?

According to historical records, single eyelids are one of the characteristics of the Mongols. Because they have more fat above the upper eyelid, they form a fold to cover the upper eyelid. However, were the ancient Han Chinese "pure" race?

In fact, before the Qin and Han dynasties, the characteristics of the Han people can be seen from the unearthed terracotta warriors. The terracotta warriors have a wide face, a collapsed nose, and single eyelids, and are typical of Mongolians.

But after the Jin Dynasty moved eastward, the genes of the Han people were no longer as "pure" as those of the Qin and Han dynasties. After the Five Chaos of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of the ethnic minorities who invaded the Central Plains were assimilated by the Han Chinese, while the Han who took refuge in the south assimilated the indigenous peoples in the south. The long-term integration gradually changed from the distinctive characteristics of the Han and ethnic minorities at the beginning, to the chaos that followed.

I mixed various ethnic groups with you, and formed the Tang Dynasty, which was a multi-ethnic fusion.

It is evident from the murals and sculptures of the Tang Dynasty that Hu Zhongzhong had a large proportion of people with convex noses and sunken eyes, and all of them had double eyelids. But the double eyelids don't seem to appear in large numbers on the faces of Han Chinese. However, since most of these murals were unearthed in the north, which was the cultural center of China at that time, the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other nomadic peoples who were assimilated by the Han should not be greatly affected.

But by the Song Dynasty, China's cultural center shifted to the Yangtze River valley, and ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia gradually merged into the Han Chinese. At the same time, ethnic minorities such as the Khitans and Manchus who invaded northern China were assimilated by the Han Chinese. Since the unification of the whole country in the Yuan Dynasty, the integration of the Han people in the north has been nearly perfect, while the genetic structure of the Han people in the south is basically stereotyped, and double eyelids appear in large numbers among the Han people.

In fact, both single and double eyelids are the result of racial integration. Even the traditional single eyelid may have existed before the Qin and Han dynasties. In an unknown era, the genetic structure of the eyelids of the Han Chinese changed due to ethnic migration.

Living in a country with 56 ethnic groups, everyone should abandon the concept of race and live in unity and harmony, because everyone has a common name - Chinese.

Xi Shi, Diao Chan, and Wang Zhaojun can basically be identified as single eyelids, and Yang Yuhuan is not necessarily; The specific probabilities are as follows: Xi Shi 100% single eyelid, Wang Zhaojun single eyelid, Diao Chan more than 98% single eyelid, Yang Yuhuan 50% single eyelid.

Ancient Chinese "Four Beauties": Xi Shi, Diao Chan, Wang Zhaojun, Yang Yuhuan. The four beauties enjoy the reputation of "the appearance of the shy flowers in the closed moon, and the appearance of the sinking fish and geese".

As for whether it is a single eyelid or not, it is difficult to say.

Archaeologists have found that the terracotta figurines in the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang are all single-eyelid, and none of them are double-eyelids, which infers that the ancient Han people had single eyelids.

But with the passage of time, the northern ethnic minorities, that is, the Hu people, or moved or invaded, and gradually integrated with the Han people, some of them traveled to new ethnic groups, and some were directly accommodated by the Han people.

1, the so-called "Four Beauties" are just the invention of boring literati, and there are absolutely no two people in history, "Xi Shi" and "Diao Chan".

2, the "single eyelid" in the Chinese is produced through the mixed blood of various ethnic groups, with Mongolian blood.

3. The formation of various blood types of human beings is also the result of the great integration of ethnic groups.