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The 4 legendary beauties of China

Submitted by Raziel on Sunday, 2 November 20082 Comments

Chinese women are well known throughout the world for their feminine beauty and if one were to ask who are the prettiest Chinese girls of China, you’d be flooded with answers of personal favourites. But if you were to ask who are the 4 great beauties of China…then you will get the names of only four. Four women who through lived centuries apart, in different dynasties of ancient China, all possessed beauty so insurmountable not even time would wash their existence from the minds of modern civilization.

So who were these four women blessed with such legendary beauty that until today, the world still can find no others to relinquish their titles to?

There was:

  • Xi Shi (c. 770-476 BC, Spring and Autumn Period), her beauty would put the most beautiful of fish to shame and make it shyly sink away in her presence.
  • Wang Zhaojun (c. first century BC, Western Han Dynasty), said to be so beautiful that her appearance would leave the birds so awed, they’d forget their flight and fall from the skies.
  • Diaochan (c. third century, Three Kingdoms period), famed to possess such luminous beauty that put even the moon itself could not compare to.
  • Yang Guifei (719–756, Tang Dynasty), her legendary beauty was said to put all flowers to shame.

Paintings of depicting the 4 beauties:

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2 Comments »

  • chinese han dynasty said:

    [...] China to athletes and tourists from all over the world. Among these exhibitions, traditional …The 4 legendary beauties of China | EastAsiaFairChinese women are well known throughout the world for their feminine beauty and if one were to ask [...]

  • Quick Cash said:

    Wow!! I had never heard about these four women, but they are very beautiful indeed!! I just wonder if there has been more women that they could include on their list, b/c it just seems to me like they haven’t had anyone else added unto it in a long time!! =/

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