What is beauty?
If I ask to some one, “Which thing do you really want to get?”. Most people would answer like this. “I want to be beautiful” or I want to get a beautiful woman.”. Human beings have pursued ‘beauty’ by their nature. Because of this human nature, the thing that is beauty, become a certain ‘power’. The reason is simple. Every body wants to have, but only few people have it and it is hard to have. For example, most people really love Jeon Ji-hyun, but it seems to be impossible to be yours. Of course you can not be ji-hyun either. So we could crazy about her.
In the history, the beautiful women had made a noise in the world. Whom do you think as extraordinary beautiful women in the history? There are Yang Guibi, Jang huibeen, Whang Jini, Cleopatra and so on. Many of you would ask “Were they really beautiful? How much?” I think they were just enough beautiful to be loved by the people in their period.
First of all, Yang Guibi is known as the most popular beautiful woman in Chinese history. Dang hyunjong the last king of Dang loved her very much. Surprisingly, he was father-in-law of Yang and he was 54 years old when she was 21. But it couldn’t be a problem at that time. Because the King who had the absolute power wanted. He loved her very much, so he had been indifferent to administrate the country’s affairs. The country had been confused and the people blamed Yang and the king. Finally the country completely fell. In that reason, she has known for ‘Kyun-guk-ji-saek’. Have you ever seen her pictures or things like that? Maybe you’ve never. There’s no exact picture of her. We can guess some pictures could be Yang through some historical articles only. According to some article, she was really fat and her skin was very white like a baby. The people who didn’t like her, called her as a white pig. I think she was not perfectly beautiful, but sincerely loved by the king. After she died, he missed her so much with tears in his eyes everyday. The more valuable thing was not her beauty but his sincere love.
Secondly, Cleopatra is well known with her big nose. But she didn’t have a big nose. The meaning of her nose is her self-respect, ambition or ability. Actually, she was excellent at diplomacy and she could speak about 10 foreign languages. Like this, she was really able woman. She had brought the prosperity to the weak Egypt. She had a big concern about beauty-care. The most popular thing in her beauty was make-up, especially green eye shadows and distinctive eye lines. Someone say her beauty was just 화장빨. According to the history, she had her own cosmetic factory. As I mentioned, she was an excellent diplomat, because she applied her beauty to the diplomacy. She tempted several Roman powers such as Ceasar, Antonious and Octavius.
Like this Beauty can be the most powerful weapon. It moves the sense. And the expression of beauty is confidence of her. Women had better try to make him feel her beautiful. There are various ways to be a beautiful woman. I’m not saying only the plastic surgery or make-up like things. Passions, ability or attractiveness of your own make you a beautiful woman. Try to find your own way and make beautiful you.