The bizarre beauty-preserving skills of ancient beauties include beauty red, containing ginseng, drinking human milk, etc. According to ancient records, these methods are quite effective, allowing women to achieve the effect of beautifying and nourishing their skin like jade, and making men They are obsessed with it. However, these ancient beauties' beauty techniques are only legendary methods, which do not necessarily mean they are suitable for modern people. Therefore, girls who love beauty should find beauty methods that suit them and do not blindly imitate the ancients.
Those who know history should know that there was a famous beauty named Zhang Lihua in ancient times. She was Empress Li's favorite concubine. It is said that Zhang Lihua was as beautiful as a fairy and had a face like jade. Due to her good maintenance, she remained youthful. , so she dominated the harem and defeated many concubines. She was so favored because she had a secret beauty recipe that she had worked so hard to find. This secret recipe came from "Pillow Chinese Prescriptions" written by the Queen Mother of the West, and was called "Beauty Red" by future generations.
The method is to grind one or two cinnabar into fine powder, then make a small hole in the egg, remove the egg yolk inside, mix the cinnabar with the egg white, and then seal the egg hole with wax. , then mix this egg with other eggs and let the hen hatch. After the chick hatches, the egg can be taken out, peeled off the shell, ground into fine powder and applied to the face.
There is also the well-known Empress Dowager Cixi. Although she is not a famous beauty in history, she is a famous beauty expert in history. It is said that her skin was still beautiful when she was forty or fifty years old. It can be broken by bullets, and it is white and red, which makes people very enviable. The method she used to maintain her beauty was to drink human milk and take ginseng in her mouth. According to palace historical records, Cixi would drink a glass of human milk every morning, eat a spoonful of pearl powder, and then use the palace's secret recipe for facial care. "Huan Yuan Lu" also records that Cixi would ask her servants to slice ginseng and hold a piece in her mouth when she had time until the ginseng was slowly digested. In one year, she could hold more than two kilograms of ginseng in her mouth. Come to think of it, In order to love beauty, Empress Dowager Cixi not only consumed many precious medicinal materials, but also put a lot of thought into it.
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