Is There Any Elegance In Chinese Women?

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What kind of elegance do you have in mind?

Mai Xiang, 30 years old, white collar

Affected by mother, I like gray blue. clothes Despise the red and green. Until I saw an old actor on TV, my view of grace began to waver. The old lady had white hair and red scarf and a large scarf, which was stunning with grace. At that moment, I realized that there were no ungraceful colors, only those who were not elegant.

Berry, 26 years old, freelancer

Have you ever seen a peasant woman elegant? It is not who is highly educated who can be more elegant. In Qiandongnan, I met a Dong village girl who took a load and walked happily on the ridge of the field.

Gu Lei, 33, bookstore owner

Elegance is excellent, but it is not good enough to make others stress. Jay Chou did not publish a book called "gorgeous D," which is a good name.

Tracy, 28 years old, yoga instructor

When it comes to elegance, I also think of words such as kindness and fortitude. In short, elegance should be a calming and calm temperament. It will not be related to aggressive and frightening, defensive feelings anyway.

Snow sharp knife, 25 years old, reporter

If a woman has many complaints about life, it will be useless for her to wear beautiful clothes and make-up again, because her inner complaints will eventually be projected onto her face, making her face full of resentment, much less elegant.

Female perspective

Elegance sometimes looks real.

Sun Zhen, 28, company administrator

Some scholars in the West have studied the interaction between people and people. They say that in people's interactions, more than half of people's perception of you is watching your clothes. It seems that a person is not elegant, but he really depends on appearance.

Don't talk about elegance first. The image of me is not elegant, but my mean person can remember clearly. For example, a woman in the subway, a good suit, wore a strong and upright dress, but showed a pair of silk stockings wrapped in autumn trousers under her skirt. For example, in summer, the size of the bra is probably a problem. It is too tight for the bra to cross the back three times. To make matters worse, some people did not wash their hair for three days and still insisted on the long hair shawl. As far as you can see, the hair has been tangled up like a black octopus.

Being a woman, it's not very natural to talk about women's problems. The positive teaching material is not not. Yi Shu, a romantic novel teacher, is a person who can dress more. Her novels are all independent and wear standard. "Her hair was in a horsetail, wearing a broad white shirt and no makeup on her face." Elegance does not necessarily mean sedulously and exquisitely. Natural clothes and clothes reflect the charm of people as well.

But if you have money, of course you want to dress like Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin.

In fact, when it comes to dressing, clothes are not the main ones, but the person who does not match the clothes. Sometimes, plain clothes can turn rotten into magic, but gorgeous clothes are expensive for a vulgar woman, but they are just ornamental Christmas trees.

No one can be gracefully dressed without a charm, but with a charm and a slovenly manner, it is a self destruction. The so-called charm is not born, it may depend on reading or family, but in general, there is a difference between a person who picks up coal and grows up and a person who grows up in the piano.

Don't believe it, life is so desperate. The day after tomorrow's study and study will cultivate a person's elegance, but often in the details of the occasion, vulgar and casual exposure, everything is finished.

However, there is no need to be discouraged. Elegance is not easy, but tranquility and gentleness are very simple. No matter what happens, smile more and you will also give a good impression. I think that's much better than deliberately dressing elegance.

The elegant example of my heart: Maggie Cheung

Elegant type: witty. grace
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Elegant reasons: from heart to heart. Her increasingly beautiful face and maturing skills confirmed her inner strength.

The real elegance is fading.

Yang Yihong, 33 years old, English teacher

When I was playing the dream of Red Mansions on TV, my great grandmother suddenly said, "when I was little, our family was such a show." Only later did I know that her great grandfather was a member of the Qing Dynasty.

The great grandmother was somewhat picky in her memory. But the problem is that her old man can stand up to other people's fastidious clothes, and always wears a cool and refreshing dress. In 60s and 70s, the old people still tried to make life seem beautiful. Ordinary pickles are not the same in the hands of great grandmother. Radish, beans, head, clip together with ivory chopsticks, are placed in small porcelain saucers with white flowers and golden edges, with less sugar and sesame oil.

When we grow up, we know that pickles, chopsticks, and ordinary things can be elegant props. Moreover, the elegance cultivated in a good environment is difficult to be changed by bad circumstances.

In the eyes of literary young women in China, Miss Dai, a wealthy lady in Shanghai's golden branches and leaves, has become an elegant symbol. Daisy, who was rich in food and clothing, seemed to be doomed to heaven. Even if the "Cultural Revolution" was forced to work, with a pair of "miss of the Bourgeoisie" hand to wash the toilet bucket, she even kept the habit of drinking afternoon tea! Without an electric oven, she steamed the cake in a single aluminum pot. Without a toaster, she put iron wire on the honeycomb briquette stove to bake bread. Be calm and calm, and keep her way of life. Until the age of ninety, Daisy still smiled and gracefully drank black tea, and her white curly hair smelled of perfume, which made her granddaughter sigh, "she is really charming."

However, these elegant people, elegant details, are gradually closing down in our vision. Today, we are still paying homage to yesterday's elegance, which is nothing but a sad masturbation. In our growth process, our school education and family education are basically ignored. Most of the time, it is after our adulthood that we rush to make up some of the knowledge that we feel we need and yearn for. Therefore, whenever we mention "elegance", we always feel a sense of timidity.

Fortunately, Chinese women have begun to face up to this problem. I heard that some universities offer a home economics course. I don't think housekeeping can make elegance, but there is always better than nothing. And can we keep the pace of graceful departure after all kinds of efforts? The answer is not optimistic, because elegance takes time.

The elegance of my heart: Daisy

Elegant style: calm elegance.
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Reasons for selection: few people can be as graceful as she is, until they die.

Elegance is a healthy attitude towards life.

Dai Cha, 25 years old media worker

During her summer vacation in high school, she went to the aunt's home in the provincial capital.

When aunt was brought home from the railway station, she began to feel helpless when she carried the blue flower cloth bag. The elegant display of her aunt made her stunned, the piano, the sofa, the fish bowl... She stood there nervously, her face red, and she did not know where to put the bag.

The cousin came out wearing pink slippers, smiled and welcomed her, and put her bag in the room that had been cleaned up. The cousin's feet were thin and white, and her toenails were painted with a silver chain on her ankle. The cousin handed her slippers for her to change, and she hesitated, afraid that her cousin could smell her sweat on the train one night and a day.
When she was eating, she buried herself in the soup and asked her aunt and uncle. I didn't know when my aunt and uncle and cousins stopped and looked at her. She looked around and did not know what she had done wrong. The aunt sighed, her cousin smiled and whispered to her: "when you eat soup, you'd better not make a noise."

Silent? You can't burn your mouth. She thought, but eventually did not ask, but once again turned red.

In the evening, she slept in the bed of the guest room, and she cried silently. Later, she said, it was a small town girl who felt for the first time in the metropolis a strong sense of embarrassment and inferiority. In a small town in her hometown, she is also a good girl with good academic quality, but the metropolis ignored it. The metropolis only let her know her own vulgarity and ungraceful, and made her cry in shame.

All this she told me later. She is my boss. The 35 year old woman is thin, confident and pure in her eyes. I often think she is graceful. But she told me that she had also had a detour.

After graduating from college, she began to learn elegance in order to integrate herself into the metropolis as soon as possible. She used limited savings to buy fashions and burn the latest styles. However, an interview changed her view of elegance.

When the Spring Festival approached, she went with her colleagues to interview some poverty-stricken families. One line saw nothing but gloomy gloom, and asked for money. But there is only one exception. The house was kept clean. The hostess gave tea to her guests gracefully. The cup was clean and clean. The children were writing their homework quietly, and there was a peaceful atmosphere at home. After a closer look, the slippers were sewn by hand, and the curtain was made of waste calendars. Even the oil bottles in the kitchen are shiny. Looking at the smiling hostess, she suddenly found that she was very wrong: is this woman's self love in poverty is not an elegance?

She said that she knew from now on that elegance was inseparable from matter, but not immaterial.

The elegant example of my heart: Lin Whei-yin

Elegant style: intellectual elegance
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Reasons for selection: talented female scholars, sentimental poets, ice snow smart girls, gentle mothers, energetic salon hostesses. No wonder Mr. Liang Sicheng regarded her as a treasure. Mr. Jin Yuelin had a crush on her life.

Male perspective

Every woman can be very elegant.

Lujie, 27 years old toy Designer

In the variety show "Kangxi is coming", Taiwan rich woman Xu Chunmei shows the elegance of her "upper class" to the audience: she can not talk at dinner, see people not greeting loudly, and drink coffee cups to choose small ones. All right, I don't know why, put it on her, from her mouth to speak out, I feel particularly uncomfortable. Then, looking at little s's malicious sarcasm, everyone also laughed heartless. Poor Xu Chunmei, the elegance is just the opposite.

Elegance, twenty years ago, is not a problem at all. At that time, we did not mention the two words of "elegance". Parents, teachers and friends, who spoke and taught themselves, were all alike, virtuous, quiet, gentle and frugal. Besides, what women are getting on with is not a monster.

Not only the connotation of elegance is so, but also its extended concept has a fixed version: shawl, long black hair, fair skin, and eyes must not be described with water or spirit. When reporters interviewed Andy Lau and asked him about his girlfriend's image, he blurted out the above words. No one can blame him. This is the collective unconscious of men for thousands of years.

However, if a man still has such a vision, he can only say that he is stupid and not blessed.

In the 70s of last century, men watched too many revolutionary films, but one of the sequelae began to infatuated with the women spy in the movie - at least her appearance. The big wave curly hair, the high-heeled shoes under the cheongsam, the white fingers holding the thin cigarettes, immediately compared Lin Daiyu's soul of a poem.

After that, the men and women of the red dust discovered that they had been virtuous. lady There are many kinds of Elegance: the well-trained white-collar Beauty in International Trade Building or Cetra Building is already the mainstream of elegance in the shopping malls, and the rich girl Teng Jing in the meteor garden is graceful. But when the grass roots came from the Chinese fir, while playing the piano and mocking the mother of the Dow Ming Temple, who was too fond of the rich and rich in love, was it not so elegant and exciting? Even on the T stage, wearing an avant-garde model, putting out a cold face, can make people feel elegant.

As a male, I value women's inner grace. The word "elegance" is actually more relative to Gentleman. Last winter, my girlfriend and I were waiting for a bus on the street, a fat woman on the side. Fat is fat, and she wears very drums, and drums are all there. She also sticks two arms, and her girlfriend reads "Whoa", but the woman just smiles back at us. When the bus arrived, the woman turned around, and we found that the family was neither fat nor drums, supporting their arms, because they were carrying a sleeping baby in their arms. Looking at her girlfriend's cold jump, she let us go. Now, I say to a bunch of dads, my friends agree with the guys who sniff at the streets full of women. This is a rare grace nowadays.

In fact, with every appreciative eye, every woman can be very elegant. Use the sentence pattern of advertising: basic politeness and upbringing as raw material, making people comfortable, and adjusting to your own personality elegance.

The elegance of my heart: Cymbidium

Elegant style: natural elegance
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Reasons for inclusion: the first women to teach yoga in China. The skin is black, not beautiful, and Mandarin is not standard. She awakens the great potential of Chinese women's body and mind with a relaxed smile and gentle voice, subverting Chinese women's understanding of elegance and beauty.

Elegant twenty iconic details

1. Chanel is not necessarily suitable for everyone. It's better to wear a simple Christmas tree than to use Chanel as a Christmas tree.
2. walk a little slower, slow down a bit, do not sweep the heels, climb the stairs as quietly as possible.
3. makeup is enough, and if it is not for the seventeen or eight year old girl, gorgeous colors will still be less useful.
4. don't speak loudly in public places. If you have to talk, you can walk to that person's side, and two people will speak quietly.
5. we do not do Xu Chunmei, but the basic table manners are to understand, for example, do not drink soup.
6. dirty words can be said by everyone, but elegant people choose to talk to the wall at home.
7. fingernails, toenails, heels, these little details often expose your side of life, neatly trim and go out.
8. no littering. Over twenty-five years of age, try not to chew gum without breaking the field.
9. politeness, remember to use it all the time, even for a puppy.
10. when you talk to your eyes, especially when you apologize.
11. don't interrupt when others are talking.
12. before going to the taxi, try to tidy up your skirt so as not to get out of the way.
13. when you sit down, fold your knees together, tighten your chin and straighten your back.
14. make yourself feel relaxed at any moment, and your grace will be more natural.
15. don't use hotel curtains to wipe shoes. Please don't smoke in public places and when children are present.
16. do not greedy people small cheap, even if the fruit stall is not careful to find a piece of money.
17., even if the mood is gloomy, do not vent the public goods.
18. to help old people and children are virtues, and those with virtue are naturally graceful.
19. speed is slow. Don't grab a meal with your colleagues. Everything is more difficult to roar.
20. learn to smile. Smile every now and then. Really cheer for others.

Elegant, why not?

Elegance is not high above, it is reflected in every detail of our daily life. Elegance may be a cup of rose tea on the side of a busy computer. It may be a slight looking back in the journey. It may also be a thread of hair passing through the lips in the rush, or it may be a violent slam on the playground.
We admire the radiant grace of stars, but often neglect that they can also be graceful.

One day, I saw a female scholar talking about the current affairs topic with the host on TV. The female scholars were clear and insightful. Her face turned into a light makeup, and a pair of silver side glasses made her more elegant. But her hair made people feel a little gouging: the lighting teacher was negligent that day, and let a strong light go to her head without mercy. The dry hair of female scholar suddenly appeared very embarrassed under the lamplight.

This can not be regretted. Female scholars learned, eloquence, clothing to the makeup also arrived, only one hair, it destroyed a nearly perfect image.

In fact, to make themselves more elegant, female scholars only need to give themselves to hair stylists for twenty minutes.

Every Chinese woman has great potential for elegance. As long as we give ourselves more tolerance and encouragement, this potential will surely be aroused. And one day, we suddenly found that we could not find a particularly prominent side. Elegant example The only explanation is that Chinese women have moved towards elegance.