"Red face" is two words that are soft, I fell into a dignified and lovely, delicate face like that February branch cardamom, midsummer night full moon, waterfront wave fairy, "hands like catkins, skin like condensed grease, collar like grubs, teeth like gourd "; "its shape is also, fluttering like a shocking, graceful like a swimming dragon ...... as if Ruoxi light clouds of the moon, floating Ruoxi if the flow of the wind of the back of the snow"; "Fragrant mist cloud sideburns wet, Qinghui jade arm cold "
Du Dang is the first to describe the appearance of the redheads, and the first to describe their appearance.
Du Fu's poem "Twilight Autumn Memories in vain Pei Daozhou handwritten notes": "remember the son of the first lieutenant Yongjia to go, red face white flowers reflecting the flesh"; Cao Zhi's "meditation fugue": "the sky why the beauty of the rotten demon, red face Ye and flow of light." The word "red face" refers to the face of a beautiful woman, and later gradually evolved into the pronoun of a beautiful woman.
Show color can be a meal, "the hero is difficult to pass the beauty off", love of beauty is the nature of man. Not to mention the emperor's three palaces and six houses, three thousand beauties, said the feudal period of the scholar class, the search for beauty hunting is also fashionable.
But in the history of China's five thousand years of civilization, there is an idiom that has long been ingrained. It makes all the closed-moon shy flowers, fish and wild geese looks in the history of the rise and fall of dynasties before the change of the bear too heavy a charge, wiped out the red face of all the beautiful colors, and only the only remaining scourge of the reputation of the warning of successive emperors and prime ministers, and other men.
This idiom is "the scourge of the red face".
The Dictionary defines the term "woe" as "a woman who wreaks havoc on others".
"Woe of the red face", since ancient times there is a saying, roughly refers to the meaning of the beauty of the country. It should be said that similar words, in our cultural tradition is by no means rare, a variety of texts have described, can be said to be common, a long history.