What is the allusion of "Xu Niang is ancient and charming"?

This story comes from the story of Xu Zhaopei, the concubine of Emperor Liang Yuan in the Southern Dynasties. Xu Zhaopei was really a stunning beauty when she was young, but she could never compete with the fact that time makes people old. After her youth, her beauty has been greatly reduced, but she still wears heavy makeup, but she still has some charm. Therefore, later generations described middle-aged women as "Xu Niang semi-old", and their charm still exists.

According to Nan Shi, she was the granddaughter of Qi and the daughter of General Liang. When Xiao Yi was the king of eastern Hunan, she married Xiao Yi. Now it can be analyzed that she has serious sexual troubles and is dissatisfied with her married life and sexual life. Relying on famous families, she dared to vent her sexual repression by mocking the emperor.

Xiao Yi is a "cyclops" with one eye missing, so he only dresses up half in front of the emperor, which is called "half makeup". Her reason is that one eye can only see half. She was a heavy drinker and often got drunk and threw up on the emperor's robe. Xiao Yi couldn't stand her, and began to alienate her, and moved on to other three palaces and six hospitals.

She found a lover when she lived alone. First, I met Zhiyuan, a romantic Taoist, at Eta Ursae Majoris Temple in the Ursa Hall of Jingzhou. Later, she met Yoshioka, a handsome man who went to court. At this time, she is a middle-aged woman, so this lover said, "Although the white dog is old, it can still hunt. Xiao Liyang's horse is old and handsome, and Xu Niang is still affectionate." This is an example of "Xu Niang is half old"

Later, Xu Zhaopei invited the poet He Hui to buddhist nun for a date, echoing each other at a distance on the "White Horn Pillow". Of course, these behaviors are intolerable to the emperor. Finally, Xiao Yi made up her mind that she had to jump into the well on the pretext that the death of another beloved princess was Xu Fei's secret suicide because of jealousy. Xiao Yi's resentment did not disappear. She picked up her body and returned it to her family, claiming that she was a "wife". Xu Fei's romantic career ended in tragedy.

People often call "semi-old Xu Niang" an old and attractive woman. The term "semi-old Xu Niang" originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Xu Zhaopei, a native of Xu Niang, was the concubine of Emperor Liang Yuan in the Southern Dynasties.

She has passed the prime of life, but she is still beautifully dressed and coquettish, which is extremely inappropriate. Therefore, some people say: "Xu Niang is over half a year old and still affectionate." South History, Biography of Empresses and Emperor Xu Fei of Liang Yuan recorded Xu Niang's coquettish behavior briefly. In Shu Huai, a poem by Chen Yu in Song Dynasty, the phrase "Smile when you open the window, but you don't feel old" fully shows Xu Niang's coquettish behavior. Later generations use "semi-old" or "semi-old" to allegorize the coquettish behavior after those years.