He explains, if you look at facial portraits of women from the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Five Dynasties era, you will see that in ancient times women made up their faces by first applying white powder and then applying rouge.
張振益不得不反駁這種說法，他表示，如果參考中國隋唐五代婦女面妝圖像，就可以看到古代婦女先塗白粉再塗胭脂的化妝法，這種梳妝技巧到了清代，還是很普遍。