Dai Shuo Wen Jie Zi is "?" Originally meant to be thrush, it gradually evolved into a special term for eyebrow decoration materials. In fact, just like rouge makers can have different kinds of materials, both minerals and plants used in ancient times. Plant indigo, also known as indigo flower and clam powder, is a pigment extracted from plants named "Blue" (including Polygonum cuspidatum, Isatis indigotica, Isatis indigotica and Indigo edulis), and its color is cyan-black. In China, blue plants have been used as dyes for a long time. In addition to their own production, there are also high-quality indigo naturalis imported from ancient times, that is, Persian indigo naturalis, which has long been used by women to decorate their eyebrows.

Ancient eyebrow style

Eyebrows in the pre-Qin period, although slightly different in width and straightness, were generally long eyebrows.

The popular eyebrow type in Han Dynasty is mainly long eyebrow. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, the "eight-character eyebrow" looked like an "eight", but it was actually a long eyebrow.

Wei Wudi's "Fairy Moth Makeup", with eyebrows connected and slender pictures attached to the heart, has been popular in Qi Liang. At the same time, broad eyebrows are also very popular.

Tang people love heavy makeup, but thrush is still broad. In the early Tang Dynasty, the eyebrows were thick, wide and long. In painting, the roots of the dragon's tail and the narrow-leaf wide broom are different, some are pointed and wide, and some are pointed and tail. Some bows are soft, some eyebrows are bent back, or eyebrows are gathered together, or eyebrows are separated, and they are colorful.

In the Song Dynasty, women's eyebrows inherited from the Tang and Five Dynasties became more and more exquisite. "Horizontal smoke", "strange moon" and "dizzy" all come from the Tang Dynasty. "Inverted dizzy eyebrow" is a kind of eyebrow shape painted in a wide moon shape, which gradually smudges outward from one end from deep to shallow until the dark color disappears.

Different from Han women's costumes, Mongolian costumes in Yuan Dynasty are generally painted with a slender straight "one" eyebrow. Women in the Ming and Qing Dynasties generally advocated beauty, and most of the eyebrows painted were slender and curved, with little change in length and depth, which was inevitably monotonous. However, this kind of eyebrows can better highlight the feminine and charming characteristics of women.