Among the various literary works of modern Japan, the Heian period is basically synonymous with elegance and the flourishing of the culture of the nobility of the princesses.

——Hunting clothes and black hats, wide long sleeves, pink face and black teeth, Noh dance, and scarlet songs, endless romantic aiqing, indescribable elegance and flashiness.

There are also cherry blossoms flying in the sky, winding corridors, rippling ponds, solemn ancient temples, wafting incense, melodious and moving flutes, seven-foot green silk as black as ink, gorgeous and gorgeous twelve single women's clothes, reflecting red lips and smiling faces...... It's just gorgeous!

The romantic aiqing story that takes place between the female official, the minister and the royal family, with the elegant and flashy background of the era, is like an ancient picture scroll from the hands of a famous artist, slowly unfolding in front of the eyes of the world, constituting the main color of the gorgeous and beautiful entire Heian period.

However, this layer of elegant and flashy glamorous appearance cannot hide the morbid atmosphere of the entire era. In order to show their noble status, the princes invented all kinds of seemingly elegant, but in fact extremely unhealthy lifestyles, and as a result, they became weak.

But even so, they remained unrepentant, and in order to adapt to this overall pathology, and to pursue this sick and unhealthy appearance into an enduring fashion trend—just as the French admired perfume to cover up their dirty and smelly bodies that had not bathed for a long time, so the elegant statements of the Japanese ministers and nobles in the Heian period were also used to disguise their own frailty and sickness.

For example, in manga and film and television works depicting the Heian period, there is often a scene of a thin nobleman with a sickly face, holding his maid's shoulders weakly, and going out to drink and enjoy plum blossoms in the snowy weather. The dark fragrance of plum blossoms was accompanied by the wind and snow, and the noble prince couldn't help coughing lightly, looked down, and found that the white silk scarf that wiped the corners of his mouth was stained with a faint bloodstain......

What do you think? It's very elegant, isn't it?

However, in my own conscience, I have to tell you all of you who have traveled through the Heian period that if you are lucky enough to have such a classic sick and beautiful man, you can just watch from afar, and do not come over to talk to you with an excited face.

Because most of his diseases were infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and the like, which was incurable at the time, if you got too close, maybe you would also be infected, so you had to die with him.

To give another example, as mentioned earlier, the aristocratic ministers of the Heian period painted a thick white on their faces regardless of gender. Powder. The result is that these whites are produced. When you smile, you will fall down with a stagger. But instead of doing away with this cumbersome makeup, they covered their faces with a fan when they laughed, claiming that they would look as beautiful as falling snow...... It's really speechless.

To sum up, the so-called elegance and romance of the Japanese ministers in the Heian period were essentially a kind of morbid elegance and flashiness. As the saying goes, life is endless, and self-abuse is endless!

In short, when the modern time-travelers have gone through a series of arduous tests such as bulky armor-like clothes, highly toxic cosmetics that can kill people, an absolutely unhealthy aristocratic diet, maddening superstitious taboos, and love letters from gay men, they finally leave the house in an ox cart that is slower than walking, and Zuihou can only see a group of "classical beauties" with shaved eyebrows, blackened teeth, and flat breasts that can skate (most Japanese women in the Heian period are poorly breasted), and those who also shave their eyebrows and their teeth black, and vomited blood and was sick for three days......

After all the beautiful dreams have been shattered, all the disappointed time-travelers will probably scold those girl cartoonists for being liars!

Alas, I would like to advise everyone: crossing is risky, and you must be cautious in your actions!