I took Chinese Literature and Culture class last year, and the professor introduced some poems that described Yang Kuei Fei, the most beautiful lady in China history, whom the emperor fell in love and took away from his own son. However the description that one of the poem had depicted that she was not skinny at all but obese. The description explained that she even needed two soldiers to help her to climb on a horse.
The beauty that Yang Kuei Fei possessed does not specifically match with the beauty that we know now. The definition of the beauty is defined by the people, and maybe it is defined as the position where people envies to become. In early centuries, it was impossible to become obese for common people which might have made them feel inferior compared to obese person. Now, in US where food is abundant, people feel inferior to the ones who are in very good shape.
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