The concept of beauty comes directly from "sheep". "Sheep are beautiful" has two meanings: one refers to sheep fat, because sheep is an important demand object for human survival, and the fatter the sheep, the more it can meet some needs of people. Secondly, it refers to chiefs or wizards with power and status who are so "adults", which is the original meaning of "sheep is beautiful" which is composed of two pictographs "sheep" and "big".

In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the word "beauty" is classified as "sheep" and called "beauty, sweetness". From sheep, from big. Sheep are fed by six livestock owners, and beauty and goodness are synonymous. " As can be seen from Xu Shen's explanation, people's aesthetic at that time was "sheep are beautiful": sheep are big and have good meat quality, so they are "beautiful" to eat. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was challenged after he was discovered in the Yin Ruins in Anyang, because Oracle Bone Inscriptions's beautiful character is not the image of a sheep, and it is not like a "sheep" on it, but the shape of a person adorning a sheep's head and wearing a horn-like ornament. The whole beautiful character is the image of a person wearing a totem symbol. Long ago, the ancients knew how to use ornaments to dress up as beauty. At that time, the most beautiful dress was "wearing a horn", which formed an aesthetic view that "sheep are beautiful".

Extended information: The word

was invented by Cang Xie, a historian appointed by the Yellow Emperor, and was not spontaneously formed by the people. The word maker always makes words from the point of view of the ruler. "Beauty" is the emperor's impression of the country and the people. The emperor compared himself to a shepherd and the people to a flock of sheep. And "big" is "Shuo Wen" "Huang, big also. San huang, Dajun also. " Translated as emperor, big task. San huang, the biggest monarch, by "big", I mean vast territory.

During the Three Emperors' period, China had a vast territory, including the so-called Great Kyushu (China was only one of the Great Kyushu). After the Emperor ascended the throne, the territory of China was reduced to "China", that is, "Little Kyushu". It is precisely because the people live on the land that the "sheep" representing the people is written on the "big" representing the territory.

People's Daily Online-The most beautiful dress influenced by sheep culture in ancient times was wearing a horn.