Previously, Tomato Jun had taken stock of an issue of "The World's Top 100 Most Handsome Faces" for everyone.
In the "world's most handsome" selected by the American website "TC Candler", almost all the European and American men on the list are like this:
Asian male stars, on the other hand, are almost always like this:
Regardless of whether the judges who select this list are mostly men or women, it can be seen that the aesthetics of European and American men are mostly strong muscles, handsome appearance, and full of masculinity.
But when you come to This side of Asia, especially Kim Tae-hyung and Tian Tao-kook from South Korea, they are all feminine and gentle.
Some people believe that this is an "aesthetic invasion" of the East by the West, and it is "de-maleizing" the entire Eastern world.
After watching so many movies, Tomato Jun will talk to you today from the perspective of his own cognition, the Reason why the West prefers masculine and masculine men, while the East prefers "feminine and small students".
First, it is influenced by traditional culture
Whether it is China, Japan, South Korea or Vietnam, they all belong to the same "Confucian cultural circle", and the cultures of East Asian countries are common.
In traditional Chinese culture, the depiction and description of male beauty has never been of the "muscle macho" type.
In the Book of Poetry, "Three Hundred Poems, The Innocence of Thought", the gentleman is described as follows:
Zhan Pi Qi'ao, green bamboo monkey. There are bandits, such as cutting like a knife, such as grinding. He must not be deceived.
A wonderful description.
In traditional Chinese culture, a gentleman is the highest title for a cultivated man, "strong body, strength can carry the top" nature has nothing to do with "such as cutting, such as grinding".
The highest ideal of men in ancient China was "self-cultivation and governance of the country and the peace of the world", which was based on talent and cultivation, not personal force.
The Song Dynasty even gave full play to this aesthetic to the extreme, whether it was Yang Zhengdou or Wu Zhuoqun, in the eyes of intellectuals, it was just "developed limbs and simple minds".
Look at the representatives of beautiful men in ancient China, and you will know what is going on.
The big handsome man in Chinese history, who is regarded as the standard and uses the idiom "Maoruo Pan'an" to describe the handsome Pan An, is a Western Jin Dynasty literary scholar, whose characteristics are "beautiful posture, less famous for his talents." ”
Another, Ji Kang, who is also a big handsome man in Chinese history, has been described as "Xiao Xiao susuan, cheerful and clear-hearted".
Song Yu, a literary scholar of the Warring States period, was on a par with Pan An.
To what extent song Yushuai in history, a beautiful woman in his neighbor's house secretly climbed on the wall to watch him for three years, which is also the origin of the story of "neighboring woman peeping at the wall".
And the idioms of "Yangchun White Snow" and "Qu Gao and Widow" all come from Song Yu.
Let's take a look at Cao Xueqin's description of Jia Baoyu:
"The face is like powder, the lips are like grease, the hope is amorous, and the language is often smiling." A natural charm, all at the top of the eyebrows; a thousand emotions in life, all the corners of the eyes. ”
The depiction of Baoyu in the 3rd episode of "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be used on women as they are.
With the traditional culture's description and edification of handsome men, coupled with the ideal of scholars and doctors under the heavens, the shaping of men's aesthetics, it is also slowly fixed.
At the same time, the West is different.
European history is basically a history of war and chaos, from the Roman Empire to the classical era, from the Middle Ages to religious wars, from being trampled by the Mongolian iron horse to the Renaissance, to the modern World War I and World War II and the Cold War, Europe has never stopped.
Europe does not have our Confucian culture, and the religious beliefs and ruling classes of each period are different.
European life is aggressive, martial arts is its nature, mostly force and conquest as the highest achievements and ideals, and people with high force can get more social resources and have a higher social status.
So we see that most of the depictions of the gods in Greek Mythology are powerful and aggressive.
Zeus, the king of the gods, is no exception, after winning the "Titan War", it is only to redivide the rights and allocate resources, and Zeus himself, in addition to his muscular appearance, is also a very lustful god, he has quite a number of lovers and illegitimate children, on the one hand, this is the Fertility cult of westerners, on the other hand, it is also their subconscious, the allocation of resources by the victors.
European Renaissance sculpture also did not hide the European preference for masculinity, robustness, strength and figure in male aesthetics.
Second, the influence of race and physiological structure
The aesthetic difference between Orientals and Europeans is essentially because of the difference in physiological structure, and there is a big gap between Asians and Westerners.
Because of the physiological structure, nutritional structure, living habits, dietary differences and historical reasons and many other factors, orientals, especially Asians, compared with European and American races, the body is thinner and the skeleton is smaller.
Most Europeans are tall, with large skeletons, muscular muscles, and strong hair.
Other than that, if we compare the figures of Chinese and foreign martial arts superstars, we can see some clues.
Johnson, whom we all know, is 195cm tall and weighs 120 kilograms, and looks like a very big man.
Wu Jing is 175cm tall and weighs about 75 kilograms, and the two people stand together, looking very different.
Mo said Johnson, the internationally renowned martial arts movie star, like Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Shange Yunton, none of them belong to the short and light weight, each is a big man.
On the one hand, this is the result of "aesthetic" choices, because of the preference for muscular macho men, so WWE Johnson, the toned Schwarzenegger will be selected by the audience to become a superstar.
On the other hand, it is also determined by "aesthetic preference", because of the physiological structure of Westerners, their aesthetic of men will of course highlight their own characteristic preferences.
Some people may retort that Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are not internationally renowned, and why are they not as big as Westerners?
Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are famous more because of their film works, they have works first, and then they are famous, not because they conform to the aesthetics of Westerners.
In addition, you may wish to take a look at the figure of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee when they were fighting, although the height is not high, but the whole body is full of tendon meat, full of masculine Kong Wuqi, and such a figure is naturally favored by Western audiences.
On the contrary, in the choice of martial arts stars, Chinese audiences prefer those movie stars who are handsome in appearance, athletic, stretched and handsome in action.
For example, Jet Li in the early years, who was born as a national kung fu champion, relied on a "Jingwu Hero" in 1994 to make Pingtou popular all over the country.
And when Wu Jing debuted, especially in "Tai Chi Master", it was simply a standard small fresh meat.
Now 58 years old, Zhen Zidan, who is only 169cm tall, stands with the actor who plays his wife in "Ip Man", and he is half a head lower than her.
In the scene with Tyson, it is simply a direct collision of male aesthetics between East and West.
It is undeniable that people's aesthetics will be biased towards the characteristics of their own race, and Westerners will naturally favor a taller and more robust body; and the Orientals' preference for Confucianism and white-faced students has also continued from ancient times to the present.
Third, the influence of popular culture
In popular culture, east Asian culture represented by the Korean Wave has a "feminine style" aesthetic, which actually originated from Japan at the earliest.
There is a man named Kitagawa in Japan, known as the "godfather of the boy band", he founded the Janis office, a large number of good-looking male stars to become idols, this trend later swept the country, and spread to South Korea.
Carrying forward the feminine aesthetic is the three major entertainment companies of SM, JYP and YG in South Korea, which borrow the production method of the Janis office in Kitagawa, Japan, and form a boy band idol star-making model from appearance dress, to typhoon makeup, and even hairstyles.
As the influence of the Korean Wave expanded, this model swept all over Asia, from Japan to Thailand, from China and even Latin America.
The boy and girl groups have become a huge star-making industry chain, these singing and dancing stars have been packaged, harvested fan wallets, and the capital behind them has made a lot of money, while this aesthetic culture has fully invaded Asia.
Since then, male idols have worn earrings, painted heavy makeup, played foundation, kept colorful hair, scratched their heads on the stage and become a trend, and more and more people, especially the main teenagers in the rice circle, the aesthetic has gradually been reshaped by such a feminine aesthetic penetration.
And they are the main force of the network, but also control the mainstream aesthetic discourse power of the network, so that we will see the ubiquitous "feminine aesthetic".
But at this point, the West is very cautious, their children like mostly comics, and the superheroes in comics are often aesthetically the opposite of boy bands.
You see Marvel's superheroes, from the US team to Thor, from the Hulk to Iron Man,
Even female characters have a masculine and toned atmosphere, such as Black Widow and Captain Marvel.
The same is true of DC's superhero, Superman's muscular shape and angular appearance are not to be mentioned,
Wonder Woman's Amazons are also a militant people, though they are all women.
And from Batman to Aquaman, from steel bones to The Flash, it is a proper beauty of power.
The influence of popular culture on modern aesthetics is very huge, which directly leads to the "most handsome face" selection, the standard of the United States and the West is the aesthetic of men in the Western world, and in Asia, it automatically brings the feminine wind into the Hallyu.
In fact, aesthetics are diverse, there is no absolute beauty, there is no absolute ugliness, most of them vary from person to person.
And in the Western aesthetic, there is no shortage of small fresh meat with a face like a cloud, and brother Tang, who has just debuted, is simply a template for small fresh meat.
When he was young, the little plum was also very handsome.
Keanu Reeves was a very standard Asian-faced handsome guy when he was young,
Of course, there are sweet tea, Alandron and these feminine European and American male stars.
However, their way back seems to be to transform into a bearded and big-bellied European rough man.
There is also an interesting phenomenon, in the search engine with English input "handsome man", more will see the power type of European and American handsome men.
You can enter Chinese "handsome guy", but the result is diametrically opposite.
Perhaps this aesthetic alienation has penetrated deeply into the judgment of each of us by big data.
(Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Board: Ichiichi)