Today, I was wondering about the Legendary Beauties of the Past, so I looked through the sites and came across this interesting article about Legendary Beauties of China.
Chinese women are well known throughout the world for their feminine beauty and if one were to ask who are the prettiest Chinese girls of China, you’d be flooded with answers of personal favorites. But if you were to ask who are the 4 great beauties of China…then you will get the names of only four. Four women who through lived centuries apart, in different dynasties of ancient China, all possessed beauty so insurmountable not even time would wash their existence from the minds of modern civilization.
So who were these four women blessed with such legendary beauty that until today, the world still can find no others to relinquish their titles to?
There was :
Xi Shi (c. 770-476 BC, Spring and Autumn Period), her beauty would put the most beautiful of fish to shame and make it shyly sink away in her presence.
Wang Zhaojun (c. first century BC, Western Han Dynasty), said to be so beautiful that her appearance would leave the birds so awed, they’d forget their flight and fall from the skies.
Diao Chan (c. third century, Three Kingdoms period), famed to possess such luminous beauty that put even the moon itself could not compare to.
Yang Guifei (719–756, Tang Dynasty), her legendary beauty was said to put all flowers to shame.
Paintings of depicting the 4 beauties :
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