affront Xishi,the well-known beauty of the Spring and Autumn Period-give prominence to the ugly and depreciate the beautiful; make an ugly woman come up to a beauty ? 何乃刻畫無(wú)鹽,以~也! (劉義慶《世說(shuō)新語(yǔ)·輕詆》) Why carve and paint the woman of Wuyan to make her come up to Xishi?