Chapter 3779: : Rouge gouache

Although in the afternoon, no Guwu master came to trouble him, but Ye Chen seemed very urgent in cultivation.
In the past few years, Ye Chen knew that his cultivation speed in the outside world was getting slower and slower. On the one hand, it was because there was no time, and on the other hand, it was already very difficult to rely solely on those rare medicinal materials and medicinal baths.
After all, the cultivation speed must be getting slower and slower after the cultivation.
Until Ye Chen discovered that the aura in the ancient martial world was different.
If in the secular world, because of various reasons such as air pollution, there is basically no aura, then when you enter the ancient martial world, this ancient martial world will be like another world.
There is aura here, and aura is very abundant.
Therefore, Ye Chen knew that the cultivation in the ancient martial world was much faster than the cultivation in the medicinal bath outside.
Moreover, Ye Chen knew that in addition to protecting himself by cultivating this cultivation technique, he knew better that he would get more benefits than he thought.
Now when he is heading back to Han Mansion in Uncle Zhang's carriage, he will return to Han Mansion.
Ye Chen and Han Yujia went to dinner first, and then Ye Chen returned to his independent courtyard.
Han Yujia has already told her parents that she has moved to the courtyard next door where Ye Chen lives.
The two separate courtyards are connected together, separated by only a wall.
Because Ye Chen and Han Yujia are not married yet, and here is the Han Mansion, it must be different for Han Yujia to live upright with Ye Chen before marriage.
However, if Han Yujia sneaked into his room at night, even if he was seen, it would be nothing.
Anyway, she is the eldest of the Han family, and everyone knows that Ye Chen is the uncle of the Han family.
Ye Chen was in the independent courtyard, where Aya and Ale calculated that most of the money Ye Chen earned today was copper coins. Except for the silver taels and gold ingots given by several ancient warriors in the morning, the others were copper coins.
Of course, Ye Chen also sent some copper coins.
Now these copper coins were stringed together by Aya and Ale. One thousand copper coins are consistent, always one or two silver taels. Now they are stringed together, and then exchanged with Han butler, and they are all handed over to Han Yujia.
Of course, Ye Chen rewarded each of the two women with 500 copper coins.
At noon, the two bought some rouge gouache near the market and spent a lot of copper coins.
"What are these?" Ye Chen asked.
"Uncle, this is my rouge gouache."
Isn't it just cosmetics?
There are all kinds of cosmetics in the folk world, but Ye Chen knows that they are all products of chemicals, and this thing itself is not good.
However, everyone has the love of beauty, not to mention, in the ancient martial world, there has been rouge gouache since ancient times.
However, the rouge gouache from the ancient martial arts world should be much simpler.
Ye Chen hadn't noticed the rouge gouache from the ancient martial world.
Because he has never seen Han Yujia use it.
"Have you ever used rouge gouache?"
"No, we haven't seen the lady use it."
Han Yujia is natural beauty, she really hasn't used it yet, and since she followed Ye Chen to practice the Qi Refining Mental Method, her temperament has been different, and her appearance has not changed much, so naturally she doesn't need these rouge gouache.
However, Ye Chen was even more curious about these rouge gouaches.
"let me see."
Aya took out a very delicate wooden box.
There is some pink powder in the wooden box.
"Uncle, this is used to paint the face."
Paint your face?
Isn't this blush?
In fact, the ancient rouge gouache uses red and blue flowers as raw materials. The petals of red and blue flowers contain red and yellow pigments. After the yellow is washed away, it becomes a bright rouge.
In addition, ancient medical books record raw materials that can be used to make rouge, as well as hollyhock flower, heavy crimson, black bean skin, pomegranate, mountain flower, and shamrock. Natural red pigments can be extracted from these Chinese medicines to make rouge.
There is a more detailed record in the "Qi Min Elements", the most primitive method of making powder is to use a round powder bowl to fill the rice juice and make it precipitate to make a white powder and greasy "Fen Ying". Then put it in the sun, and the dried powder can be used for makeup.
Because of the simplicity of this production method, it was widely spread among the people. Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, people still used this method to make rice noodles.
During the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Duan Qiaoxiao, a palace person, mixed sunflower seed juice with rice noodles and Hu powder to synthesize "purple powder."
"Butterfly powder" was made from fine corn in the palace of the Tang Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, there was "Yunnu Peach Pollen" which was blended with gypsum, talc, mussel powder, wax fat, musk deer, motherwort and other materials.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were "pearl powder" refined from white jasmine kernels and "hosta powder" made from hosta flowers and hufen.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were "bead powder" made from pearls and "stone powder" made from fine stones such as talc.
Rouge is a common cosmetic used by ancient women. There are many ways of writing about rouge in ancient books, such as "yanzhi", "cigarette", "fresh stick", "yanzhi", "yanzhi", "阏shi", etc. .
It is said that the introduction of rouge into the Central Plains is related to Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions. The so-called "Rouge" is actually a kind of flower called "Red and Blue". Its petals contain red and yellow pigments. After the flower blooms, the whole flower is plucked off, and then placed in a stone bowl. After removing the yellow juice, it becomes a bright red pigment.
There are two types of rouge for women's makeup. One is made of silk cotton dipped in red and blue flower juice, called "Mianyanzhi"; the other is processed into small and thin flower pieces called "Golden Flower Yanzhi" ".
Both types of rouge can be dried in the shade, and can be applied with a small amount of water.
Around the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people added bovine pith and pig pancreas to this red pigment to make it a dense and lubricating grease. As a result, Yanzhi was written as "Rouge", and "grease" had a real meaning. Meaning.
Ye Chen didn't know if this rouge gouache was poisonous. It would be okay if it was made of some flowers and plants, but if some metals were added, it would definitely be poisonous.
Things like mercury and cinnabar are actually poisonous.
However, Ye Chen occasionally uses realgar when he makes something to give. However, many of the ingredients in realgar and arsenic are the same.
However, if these two drugs are used to treat some skin diseases, the effect is very good.
"What are you talking about?" Han Yujia asked.
"Miss, my uncle asked what is rouge gouache?"
Rouge gouache?
How could Ye Chen be interested in the things women use.
When Han Yujia came over, she already knew that the two women bought a lot of rouge gouache from a nearby market today.
Of course, there are cheap rouge gouache, and expensive rouge gouache.
Like some eldest ladies in the ancient martial arts world, they may have to spend a lot of money to buy those rouge gouache every time.