During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, men advocated women's "weakness and obedience", and literati prevailed in the aesthetic consciousness of "exquisiteness and delicacy". A good face is more important than a good figure, and a "delicate and delicate" woman is regarded as a beauty. Full-bodied women in the Tang Dynasty were regarded as a symbol of sex appeal, which was similar to the aesthetics of the European Renaissance. The earliest image depicting women in China is said to be the "Picture of Zanhua Ladies" in the Tang Dynasty, from which it can be seen that the Tang Dynasty liked women with plump figures and full moons. Modern people emphasize A4 waist, eight-pack abdominal muscles and "mermaid line", so it is difficult to find a market for such a figure in ancient China.

In the Song Dynasty, the wind of foot-binding spread all over the people, and "three-inch golden lotus" became the basic requirement for female beauty. The aesthetic trend that women in China regard thinness as beauty sets the tone here.

However, in the modern history of China, it is not the sense of bone that is the beauty. The beauty pursued by China people is both internal and external, both rigid and flexible, and healthy. For example, Dong Qing, now the host of CCTV, her beauty is from the inside out. She is not skinny, but no one denies her beauty. Then there is the popular aesthetic trend, which is plump rather than plump or skinny. Too skinny will make people look lifeless.