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Nail Art is So Fashion in Tang Dynasty
In the cdrama The Lychee Road, not only women but also men are into manicures. He Cishi, a seemingly rugged man, and some officials have well - manicured nails, which challenges many people's modern thinking. What's going on? Were the Tang people more progressive than us? Actually, ancient men also liked growing nails. But it wasn't for beauty. It was a symbol of upper - class status, showing they didn't do manual labor. We can see long nails in some portraits. Take Zhuge Liang, a well - known figure in the Three Kingdoms period. In a Yuan - Dynasty portrait of him (collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing), he has long nails, and the ruyi in his hand is…
Nail Art is So Fashion in Tang Dynasty
In the cdrama The Lychee Road, not only women but also men are into manicures. He Cishi, a seemingly rugged man, and some officials have well - manicured nails, which challenges many people's modern thinking. What's going on? Were the Tang people more progressive than us? Actually, ancient men also liked growing nails. But it wasn't for beauty. It was a symbol of upper - class status, showing they didn't do manual labor. We can see long nails in some portraits. Take Zhuge Liang, a well - known figure in the Three Kingdoms period. In a Yuan - Dynasty portrait of him (collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing), he has long nails, and the ruyi in his hand is…
In the cdrama The Lychee Road, not only women but also men are into manicures. He Cishi, a seemingly rugged man, and some officials have well - manicured nails, which challenges many people's modern thinking. What's going on? Were the Tang people more progressive than us? Actually, ancient men also liked growing nails. But it wasn't for beauty. It was a symbol of upper - class status, showing they didn't do manual labor. We can see long nails in some portraits. Take Zhuge Liang, a well - known figure in the Three Kingdoms period. In a Yuan - Dynasty portrait of him (collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing), he has long nails, and the ruyi in his hand is…
Nail Art is So Fashion in Tang Dynasty
In the cdrama The Lychee Road, not only women but also men are into manicures. He Cishi, a seemingly rugged man, and some officials have well - manicured nails, which challenges many people's modern thinking. What's going on? Were the Tang people more progressive than us? Actually, ancient men also liked growing nails. But it wasn't for beauty. It was a symbol of upper - class status, showing they didn't do manual labor. We can see long nails in some portraits. Take Zhuge Liang, a well - known figure in the Three Kingdoms period. In a Yuan - Dynasty portrait of him (collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing), he has long nails, and the ruyi in his hand is…
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