Four Great Beauties of China

In the history of each state, there were beautiful women, for the sake of whom great rulers went to great follies.
For China, four great beauties have become models of female beauty: Xi Shi (西施), Wang Zhaojun (王昭君), Diaochan (貂蝉), Yang Guifei (杨贵妃). The story of each of them is the story of the uplifting and destructive power of female beauty. The four Great Beauties lived in four different dynasties, hundreds of years apart.
The first in beauty is Xi Shi.
Xi Shi lived at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Yue. This is approximately 7-6 centuries BC. Perhaps her beauty was really unprecedented, if the memories of her passed through such a thickness of centuries.
There are no beauties in the world more beautiful than Xi Shi,
Prince Yue's concubines!
Search the world at all eight ends -
There is no one like her on earth!

The face is like a full moon in the sky
Her eyes are like almonds.
Beautiful when joy is visible in the eyes,
It is beautiful when there is sadness in them.

Like white fujong, her skin is soft.
And lips are like a scarlet flower.
And my back drowned in the sea of hair,
And the shape is divine of the legs.

Like a willow leaf her every eyebrow,
And the captivating camp is flexible.
And the regal look oozes love
Inflicts a thousand wounds in an instant .........

The legend of the beauty of Xi Shi - "Drowned Fish".

Once, when she was washing clothes in the river, the fish, surprising her beauty, as if they had forgotten how to swim, plunged into the abyss. "Xi Shi" in China is the personification of female beauty, synonymous with the word "beauty", and also serves as the highest praise that a woman can receive.