Beauty Is Not Just Skin-deep-00-2470

By Author: Michale Song
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Wandering in Louver, suddenly you are captured by an unparalleled vase. Will you say how superficial this beautiful vase is? The answer is definite not. On seeing the vase, even knowing it could only be used to appreciated or worshiped rather than be used to carry water or something useful. Even by now, we are still amazed by the wonder which reflects the ancient civilization and sophisticated craftsmanship.
Upon a second thought, how can we simply criticize beauties as skin-deep as vases, if vases themselves are not superficial at all. If we take it for granted that beauty is born to be so with the favor of the Creator, then we are wrong from head to toes. Even the sheer appealing appearance itself is not easily earned without care, cost or commitment Just take a look at all sorts of cosmetics which even ancient beauties tried their best to do the make-up and compete with each other. Apart from the large sum of money they spent on maintaining attractive or young looking, great energy and time are also consumed in the pursuit of beauty.
On a deeper layer, the identification of a person as beautiful, whether ...
... on an individual basis or by community consensus, is often judged, to a certain degree, on some combination of inner beauty, which includes psychological factors such as personality, intelligence, grace, charm and elegance, and outer beauty, which includes physical factors, such as health, youthfulness, symmetry, averageness, and complexion. A common way to measure outer beauty, as based on community consensus, or general opinion, is to stage a beauty pageant, such as Miss Universe. Inner beauty, however, is more difficult to quantify, though beauty pageants often claim to take this into consideration as well.Our forever princess Audrey Hepum even developed it into a kind of aesthetic principles.
Admittedly, external beauty is just a reflection of the internal one. And the latter is even more difficult to obtain compared with the former. Though beautiful, plastic flowers are never fragrant, it's the same with beauty. The breathtaking beauty or elegant disposition are derived from one's own virtues, education level, family education or even the neighboring environment to a broad content. What's more, beauties still have to work very hard to reinforce her beauty to guarantee it won't fade away with the passing days.
Actually, the concept of beauty is skin-deep is a deep-rooted prejudice. As for male chauvinists, they took beauties as dull idols to play with. What haunts inside their minds is nothing but a beautiful image since they focused all their attention on it instead of something else that is more deep as well as more insightful. While jealousy and hatred are twin sisters being sealed together, it offers us, to some extent, insights into explaining why beauties are slandered as skin-deep in other females' eyes. All in all, what the world lacks is not any deep beauty, but eyes to find the content behind the image.

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Michael Song is a professional Chinese translator working in a http://www.verytranslation.com/ company which provides Online English to Chinese translation services.
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