Why did Zhu Yuanzhang have two different photos?

This picture frame is both realistic and abstract, and there is a somewhat odd portrait on it, which is the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu. It has always been said that Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely ugly. After 600 years, it is a great blessing that people can witness his face with their own eyes.

This portrait was enshrined in the Datianchi Temple in Lushan Mountain in the early years.

As the founding emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang is old. I really want to learn from the previous emperors and leave my appearance to future generations to admire. One day, Zhu Yuanzhang found a national famous painter, the first master of Danqing, who painted it himself. The painter really played his trump card and painted Zhu like a real person, just like a photo. After reading it, Zhu Yuan said to himself, am I really that ugly? If you leave this look to future generations, you won't make them laugh. So he tore the portrait into pieces in a rage and found an excuse to kill the painter. He found a second painter to paint for him. The second painter heard about the past and painted Zhu Yuanzhang beautifully, with a handsome face and a mighty and tall figure. Zhu Yuanzhang liked it very much. I showed this portrait to the people in the palace. When it was circulated, everyone talked about it, saying that if this was Zhu Yuanzhang, then this prince would be someone else's son, and Ma Huanghou would have a problem. All kinds of comments are so ugly Zhu Yuanzhang tore the portrait to pieces in a rage, and then found an excuse to kill the painter.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang invited a third painter to paint for him. The third painter thought, the portrait is not good, and the portrait is not good. How can we draw it? Might as well be perfunctory. In case the emperor says the workmanship is too bad, it's a job. The painting was soon finished, and Zhu Yuanzhang took over the work done by the third painter. He was shocked. Isn't it shameful to be so shoddy? Someone pulled it out and cut it. Zhu Yuanzhang also said that I don't believe there are no good painters in the world. Please ask again, either it's not good here, or there are problems here that can't satisfy Zhu Yuanzhang. In this way, six painters were killed in a row, and no one inside and outside the court dared to draw Zhu Yuanzhang anymore. But if you don't go, you have to go.

The seventh painter is very clever, drawing lessons from the experience of the first six painters, and painting Zhu Yuanzhang is like an elephant, like a beauty, ugly, and mysterious. And the work is excellent. After reading it, Zhu Yuanzhang was confused and said, yes, but not like it, like it again. It can be said that it is a combination of abstraction and impressionism. Just when Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't draw a conclusion, the painter stood up and pointed out, "This is a very human image, but it is also an endless image of the dragon emperor" and "painting is also very human". "Look at the longan and phoenix eyebrows here, which are auspicious and look like a dragon head. It can be asserted that the upper part is like a fairy, and the lower part is like a hero. On the whole, The painter went on to say: "This image has a beauty that ordinary people don't recognize, and the fairy family has the power to make rain." Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled. The painter said, "Only dragons can make rain. If enshrined in halls and temples, it will certainly benefit one party and be loved by the people.

In a word, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and gave the painter countless gold and silver and ten beautiful women.

Someone read this image and wrote a poem:

Long Mu Mei Feng Zhu Gong mouth, a generation of tianjiao dung. Hum, hum, hahaha, the Ming Dynasty will perish forever.