Originally, it refers to the waist of Bai Juyi's family ji Xiaoban, (Bai Juyi refers to his family ji Xiaoban's waist like a willow). Later, it refers to a very small and thin waist.
In the old days, it was used as a metaphor for a young woman's slender and flexible waist. The Canton Tower, nicknamed the Little Barbarian Waist, is located near the Chigang Pagoda in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, 125 meters from the south bank of the Pearl River, across the river from the Pearl River New City, Huacheng Square, and Haixinsha Island.
An allusion to the source
Tang Meng Kai, "Poetry of Functionality - The Sense of Things": "White Shangshu (Juyi) Ji Fan Su is good at singing, and Ji Xiaoban is good at dancing, and he wrote a poem saying: "Cherry Fan Su's mouth is small, and willow Xiaoban's waist is small". Ji Fan Su's mouth is small and colorful, like a cherry; Xiaoban's waist is as soft and slender as a willow. Modern people describe the beauty of what the cherry mouth, small savage waist or willow waist, is learned from Bai Juyi.
Extended information:
In fact, Bai Juyi was serving as a minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, the official is the fourth grade, according to the regulations can only be stored in the female Ji three people, but his family Ji in addition to the Fan Su, small barbarians and grass in addition to the spring, specializing in the pipe playing and singing there are hundreds of people, but also wrote a poem that, "Lingjiao sticking to the sheng and spring, the valley er er erased lute. The red raw material dances with its own hands, and the purple raw material sings at will". These were all his family concubines.
Yang Liu graceful, curly and graceful feeling, through the word small savage waist jumped to the paper. A willow small savage waist, said all the female delicate and graceful curve beauty, no wonder the small savage waist will become synonymous with thin waist.