There is a saying in Yangzhou: "Emperor Yangdi went to Yangzhou, and 3,000 beautiful women pulled dragon boats." At that time, Emperor Yangdi took thousands of beauties from the harem to Yangzhou to see Qionghua, but they were assassinated and died. Thousands of beauties accompanying him took root in Yangzhou. The best "beauty gene" in the country is integrated into Yangzhou. Is there a reason why Yangzhou can't have a beauty?
There are many beautiful women in Yangzhou, and one of the important reasons is the nourishment of water and soil. Yangzhou is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, with four distinct seasons, mild climate, pure water quality and rich products.
"Five Miscellanies" said: "Weiyang lives in the world, Kawasawa is beautiful, so women are more beautiful."
"Customs" said: "There are many men in the mountains and many women in the water, so there are more women in the land." Yangzhou is also rich in bathing culture, including Huaiyang cuisine. The so-called "Zhong Ling Yuxiu", one side of the soil and water to raise one side, Yangzhou women will be as fresh as Haitang after the rain.
Beauty is also closely related to the economy. The Grand Canal was opened in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and Yangzhou became the most prosperous city. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Yangzhou salt merchants dominated the national salt transportation industry, with dignitaries, poets and poets gathering, feasting and singing. This has also attracted a large number of famous artists and brothels.
Yangzhou women are not only beautiful in appearance, but also elegant, calm and lively. There are many houses of etiquette for poetry and calligraphy in Yangzhou, with a large number of scholars and elegant collections of poems, paintings and piano books. Nowadays, there are still many families in Yangzhou with guzheng, and the dolls have been educated since childhood, and most of the players are women, which is rare in the country. There are also many places of interest and elegant gardens in Yangzhou, and there is a tradition of "planting flowers in ten miles counts as farming". Yangzhou women who grew up under the influence of flowers and trees are naturally as beautiful as flowers.
Tears of "thin horse" in Kanggan prosperous time. "Yangzhou thin horse" was once a dusty page of blood and tears in the history of Yangzhou beauty. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai recorded this mysterious and peculiar social phenomenon in the fifth volume of Tao An Meng Yi and the thin horse in Yangzhou.
During the prosperous period of Kanggan in the Qing Dynasty, the fat-headed and potbellied salt merchants in Yangzhou, after playing with many beautiful women, had distorted their human desires and aesthetic concepts, and were no longer interested in "big breasts and fat buttocks" and instead pursued thinness and softness. Weak to satisfy one's animal desires. So, at that time, there was a wind in Yangzhou that thin was the beauty, and "Yangzhou thin horse" was born. Thin women can make a fortune! The ugly business of raising "thin horses" originated in Yangzhou City, and poor families with no food and clothing had to sell their thin daughters to serve as "thin horses". Those "professional households" have more than a dozen "thin horses" and as few as four or five. It is not enough to be thin and thin, but also to be trained in a variety of skills that can please the "users" such as flirting, coquetry, playing and singing. When they are raised to the standard, they will be sold to rich families as maids or prostitutes.
At that time, there were hundreds of "brokers" in Yangzhou city who were doing the business of "thin horses" like cattle dealers, including those who sold their mouths and made matches, and also those who were "embarrassed", that is, they specialized in negotiating livestock transactions. If they could not make money as livestock, they turned to "thin horses" business. As soon as the news that dajia, a wealthy businessman, wants to buy a "thin horse" comes out, these women will keep an eye on the buyer and pounce like flies ...
"City business card" dazzles the present. Nowadays, "Yangzhou Beauty" and "UN Habitat Award" have become the dazzling business cards of Yangzhou. Today's Yangzhou women have already broken away from the shackles that have bound them for thousands of years, and have grown up healthily in the sun. They are independent, self-reliant, self-loving and self-reliant, giving the times new beautiful connotations and modern temperament.
In recent years, the relevant departments of Yangzhou have publicly organized a number of seminars with the theme of "Yangzhou Beauty", striving to create a "beauty culture" in Yangzhou.
In the increasingly popular world economic structure, Yangzhou has good conditions to build a beauty economy. From the market point of view, the loudest slogans in Yangzhou are "Three Knives in Yangzhou", "Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou", "Fireworks in Yangzhou in March" and "Beauty in Yangzhou since ancient times". The first three have products and carriers, and the latter should also make a breakthrough.
"Yangzhou Beauty Stamp Products Series" stamps and postcards have been released to the public, and "Yangzhou Beauty" is becoming a dazzling and moving city card in Yangzhou today!