The story comes from the story of Xu Zhao Pei, the concubine of Emperor Yuan of Liang in the Southern Dynasty. Xu Zhaopei was a beautiful woman when she was young, but she could not resist the fact that she was getting old, and her beauty was not as good as it used to be, but she was still heavily made up, but she still had a little bit of charm. The latter is the term used to describe a middle-aged woman who is still in her prime.
According to the Southern History, she was the granddaughter of the former lieutenant of Qi and the daughter of Xu Kun, a general of the Liang Dynasty, who married Xiao Chieh when he was still the king of Xiangdong. Now it can be analyzed that she had serious sexual bitterness, and was dissatisfied with her married life and sex s life, and she dared to vent her sexual bitterness by mocking the emperor as she was proud of her prestigious birth.
Xiao deduction less than one eye, is a "one-eyed dragon", so she in front of the emperor only half dressed up, called "half-face makeup", her reason is that one eye can only see half. She was addicted to alcohol, often drunk, vomiting on the emperor's robe. Xiao Yi couldn't stand her, so he began to distance himself from her and moved on to other concubines.
When she was left alone, she looked for a lover. First of all, she befriended a flirtatious Taoist priest Zhiyuan of Yaoguang Temple in Jingzhou; later, she befriended a beautiful man in the imperial court, Ji Jiang Ji, by this time, she was already a middle-aged woman, so this lover said: "Although the dog is old, it can still be hunted; although the horse is old, it is still a steed, and although it is old, it is still affectionate". This is the origin of "Xu Niang half old".
Later, Xu Zhaopei invited a poet named He Hui to a nunnery for a date, and sang and sang on the "white horn pillow". These behaviors of course, the emperor is not allowed, and finally Xiaoyi determination, under the pretext that the death of another favorite consort is Xu Fei jealousy and secretly poisoned, forcing her to commit suicide, she had to throw the well. Xiao rendai after the hate is not over, and then her body fished up and sent back to her mother's family, claimed to be "out of the wife". Xu Fei's career ended in tragedy.
People often use "half-aged Xu Niang" said the old and still have charm of women. The term "half old Xu Niang" originated in the North and South Dynasties, Xu Niang Xu Zhaopei, was the consort of Emperor Yuan of Liang in the South Dynasty.
She was too old, but she still dresses up, and her style is very unseemly. Therefore, some people say: "Xu Niang half old, but still amorous." About "Xu Niang" of the "flirty" thing, "Southern History. Consort biography. Liang Yuan Di Xu Fei" has a very brief record, Song Chen and Yi poem "book Huai" in the "open window to meet a smile, did not realize that Xu Niang old" two lines enough to see Xu Niang's flirtatious, and later people will use "half old Xu Niang" "or" Xu Niang half-older "to satirize those who are older than the age of the women who are still windy and well-dressed, but also some people call themselves Xu Niang, containing self-effacing and self-depreciating meaning, so you can not use "half-aged Xu Niang" as a positive word