The lipstick is a necessity to every modern lady in the world. The decoration with the lipstick will make the people look full of vitality and more beautiful. More and more women like to use the cosmetics to feel younger and livelier. We all know that the lipstick is the tool which decorates the ladies in modern time. Then what is the tool that the people in ancient time used and how did the ancient people decorate their lips? The following passage will give you an answer when you learn Chinese online free about the ancient Chinese culture.

The decoration of the lips is to rouge the cream on the surface of one’s lips. the materials that were used to rouge the lips were called the lip cream, also 唇脂 in Chinese and the main content of the materials was a kind of mineral substance pigment. The material was also called zinnober. When the zinnober was mixed with animal grease, the mixture was water-proof and full of luster. For many female foreign students who had attended intensive Mandarin courses in China and were interested in the ancient history of beauty, then they might know the application of the rouge to decorate the lips began from the Han Dynasty.

The relics of the materials to decorate the lips in Western Han Dynasty were found in the tombs of Han in Changsha, Hunan Province and Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. When they were founded, they were in the cosmetics boxes. Although they had been under ground for more than two thousand years, the luster of them was still bright. In the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying by Yuan Zhen, Yingying got a box of cosmetics from Zhang and the letter in the box reflected the lip cream at that time was made like a stick which resembled the current lipstick.

Due to the powerful coverage of the color of the lip cream, the appearance of the mouth can be changed. If one’s lip is thick, one can apply lipstick to make them look thinner. The large mouth can be changed like a small mouth. Thus, the rouged lips come into being. There were different kinds of ways to decorate the lips for the women in ancient times and it was interesting.