Chapter 343: Li Er also has to do a manicure
As soon as Empress Changsun stretched out her hand like this, the dukes and ladies also walked quickly to their husbands, stretching out their hands to look at the group of men who had never seen the world.
"Oh? Guanyin's nails are very good-looking. Li Er said with some surprise when he saw the newly made manicure made by Empress Eldest Sun.
In ancient China, men and women of high status wore long nails to show that they did not need to work, and men showed their male strength and status.
During the Qing Dynasty, the ladies of the imperial court used luxurious metal or cloisonné nail sets inlaid with beads and jade to protect their carefully decorated nails. Of course, the most representative nail art figure is the Qing Dynasty, when the Empress Dowager Cixi, who hung the curtain and listened to the government, put decorative metal or cloisonné fake nails on the little finger and ring finger to increase the length of her nails and show her noble status.
But no matter how much you wear nail covers, it doesn't look as good as direct nail art.
The nail art chosen by the eldest grandson queen can be described as time-consuming and labor-intensive, but who made the eldest grandson queen the queen? Pick the highest-end nail art, that's as it should be.
Li Er said so, and the ministers also echoed it, after all, it really looks a lot better to be a perfect armor.
"Qingquan, what is this thing?" Li Er took Empress Eldest Sun's hand and asked.
"This, this is called nail art, also known as nail art design, which is a kind of thing to decorate and beautify nails, just like makeup, but this makeup is painted on the hand." Zhang Nan said with a smile.
After all, this thing was recommended to Cui Yue by Zhang Nan, and it was impossible for Zhang Nan not to know it.
"Oh? Then I can also try it. Li Er said with a look of surprise, obviously this nail art also won Li Er's heart.
"Ahh Your Majesty, do you want to give it a try? Zhang Nan said that he was deeply shocked, Li Er is so difficult that he is a sissy? It's not like ah, although Zhang Nan has never seen Li Er wielding a knife to kill people, but when he just took a hot spring, Li Er's tendon meat also made Zhang Nan see that Li Er's martial arts skills are definitely up to the standard of a general, not to mention how high Li Er's martial arts are.
"What? Is there anything wrong with me trying? Li Er was also very strange, and seemed to feel that Zhang Nan's reaction was too intense.
In fact, this is Zhang Nan's loneliness, in ancient times, rubbing rouge and powder was definitely not a woman's patent, and this thing still knows no borders.
"Everyone has a love for beauty", there are many inventions in this world, all of which are to meet people's pursuit of their own beauty. For example, the modern woman's exclusive product, stockings.
Of course, there are only two possibilities for modern men to wear stockings, the first is a pervert, and the second is a robber.
But this was not the case in medieval Europe. At the time when the material of socks had just transitioned from fur to silk, stockings were quite expensive, and only the aristocracy was qualified to use them, and the male aristocracy in Europe regarded wearing stockings as a status symbol.
Even now, we can see a thing or two in those paintings of people from the Middle Ages. The standard dress of the French aristocracy was kne-length shorts with lace at the bottom, and stockings up to the top. At first, the stockings were only white, but later these male aristocrats wore red, orange or purple stockings to show off their characteristics.
There were also high heels, which were first worn only when people were riding horses to facilitate the stirrup, but an act by the French Emperor Louis XIV changed the situation.
Louis XIV had always been obsessed with his height of less than 1.6 meters, and felt that his short stature would affect his glorious image as a king, so he ordered a 5-inch heel made of cork to wear under his feet, and high heels entered people's daily lives.
Although this is only a foreign example, it does not mean that China does not.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a great trend of women wearing men's clothes and men applying fat powder.
The woman didn't mention it for the time being, this man smeared fat powder, which is evidenced by poetry, our poet Saint Du Fu once wrote, "The lipid and facial medicine follow the grace, and the green pipe and silver poppy go down to the nine heavens." The so-called lip fat and facial medicine in this poem is a cosmetic product applied to the lips and face, which has both beauty effects and can be used to prevent frost.
The emperor of the Tang Dynasty often gave his courtiers grease on the day of Lari, and used it to be filled with a bi-carved tooth tube, which is the so-called "Cui Guan".
In addition to using lipstick and facial grease, men in the Tang Dynasty also liked to use incense clothes, especially hairpins. The so-called hairpin flower is a custom of using seasonal flowers, or gold, silver, silk, etc., to make fake flowers and insert them in the bun, sideburns or crown as decoration or ceremonial procedures.
These are all things that Zhang Nan has never seen, but this does not mean that there is none, Zhang Nan never thought that a big man like Cheng Yanjin could also wear hairpins to make a shy.
Not to mention Cheng Biting Jin, just like a man, Zhang Nan can't accept it.
"There's nothing wrong with that." Zhang Nan thought about it, but decided to tell a lie and not to ruin Li Er's interest.
"But the emperor thinks, although you don't have to do manual labor for a day, but when you review the folds, you must use your hands, you said that if you do a nail art, then the attention is not on the nails, besides, as soon as this nail art is done, you don't want to think about waving a knife or something, this will definitely affect you." Zhang Nan's lies came as soon as he opened his mouth.
Now that Zhang Nan is also used to it, he didn't hesitate at all to tell a lie in front of Li Er, this lie was more true than the truth.
"Well, what you said is not unreasonable, then forget it, my hand must not only be able to pick up a pen and write, but also be able to wield a knife to kill the enemy." Li Er smiled, and dispelled the idea of doing a nail art.
After all, Li Er was also born in the army, and if he really wanted Li Er to do a nail art and then do nothing, Li Er was still not happy.
"Okay, Qingquan, I'm a little hungry, you go and prepare a meal quickly, today I'm going to eat in the "Tian" box. Li Er waved his hand.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this "Tian" box can't accommodate so many people. Zhang Nan said with embarrassment, after all, Zhang Nan's box didn't make much for Li Er, it was just a little bigger than the normal box, if Li Er wanted to entertain so many people in the box, it would still not be possible, after all, there were at least nearly twenty people in the restaurant today, how could a box be stuffed.
"In this case, then you can arrange it, but I have to taste this meal, I want to see if your dining place is so chic, and whether the food in it can be worthy of such a chic place." Li Er said with a smile.