Is Zhu Yuanzhang really ugly?

The appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Taizu, has always been a mystery. Some people say he is ugly, others say he is a handsome man.

In fact, no one has seen what Zhu Yuanzhang looks like. We can only speculate from some historical materials and personal portraits. The records after the Qing dynasty are unreliable, because they, like us, have never seen Zhu Yuanzhang himself and only wrote some speculations. Before the Qing Dynasty, I believe no one had the courage to write about the ugliness of Mao Gao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Some people artificially vilify Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty in order to make him artistic. These materials are not historical facts, but in those

To understand Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance, of course, the first historical material to choose is the portrait handed down before. There are two kinds of portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang handed down from ancient times. One is a portrait of Mao Zedong painted by a court painter in the Ming Dynasty, and the other two are portraits of middle-aged and elderly people, which are kind and elegant.

Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait of middle age

Zhu Yuanzhang's image in his later years

After reading the above picture, I don't-I don't believe that a rogue proletarian-born, bloodthirsty and vulgar local tyrant can have such an expression. Obviously, this is a palace painter washing white for the emperor, which is completely incredible.

There is also a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, which is widely circulated among the people. There are many portraits. Zhu Yuanzhang in this series is ugly. Let's see:

These portraits come from different artists and different times, and Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance is also different, but they all have the same character characteristics: Zhu Yuanzhang was painted with a mango face, with a severely protruding chin and a sunken middle. Oh, here are the following:

These portraits may have the characteristics of slandering and exaggerating Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion, but I think Zhu Yuanzhang has a mango face, which can be confirmed. If painters are fakes, is it possible that so many painters living in different times don't know that they are all fakes? Others say that the Qing people deliberately vilified Zhu Yuanzhang, which is even more nonsense. Don't you know that Zhu Yuanzhang was the most admired and admired emperor in Qing Dynasty? The Qing emperor praised Zhu Yuanzhang's disgusting slanders. How could he deliberately vilify Zhu Chongba?

Historical materials can also be used as circumstantial evidence: the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty was named Zhu Yuanzhang, with outstanding appearance and outstanding bones. Ambition is unpredictable. To put it mildly, it actually means that Emperor Mao is grotesque and looks like an irregular geometric figure.

Therefore, up to now, historians generally think that Zhu Yuanzhang is ugly, or neutral and unique in appearance. So everyone said Zhu Yuanzhang was ugly. Why does a person have two completely different portraits?

There is a legend that Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to paint him. The first painting is very serious and vividly depicts the true face of the emperor. Because Zhu Yuanzhang himself was so ugly, the emperor was very unhappy and the first painter was killed. The second man came and painted the emperor handsome and honorable. Zhu Yuanzhang thought he was bullying you and killed him. Speaking of the third kind of person, that person is good at guessing the emperor's psychology. Knowing that the emperor worshipped Liu Bang, he drew a picture of Zhu Yuanzhang according to Liu Bang. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied and let the painter go home. After the painter came home, he drew the true face of Zhu Yuanzhang from memory. This is an ugly picture. Later, both portraits were preserved.

I don't know why many people think Zhu Yuanzhang's real appearance is ugly. I think it's definitely not because of the legend above, because there are too many untrue places. No matter how despicable Zhu Yuanzhang is, we must admit that he is a man of seeking truth from facts, which is one of the reasons for his success.

Anyone who has seen the tombstone should know this. It turned out that when he asked someone to write a tombstone that recorded his history before he became an emperor, he decided to write it himself because that person tried to cover up his origins. He never hides that history. He started as a shepherd boy and almost killed the plague. His monastic career made people cry. So it is not feasible to say that he killed people because others painted his true face. This is what some people use to echo him. Has anyone seen it? We'd better not. I wonder what Liu Bang looks like in this highly developed information age. How did Zhu Can and the painter know that this man was Liu Bang? It's not a day that created a great empire alone, is it? There is no absolute similarity between that good image and Liu Bang's portrait. At least you won. Don't think that this person is someone else's painting, and don't tell him who it is according to Liu Bang's painting.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty all have their own portraits. Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, everyone else has one thing in common, that is, their faces are wide and square. On campus, a dozen people look alike. There is only one exception. He is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, with a long face and a tradition of Zhu. Surprisingly, these two beautiful portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang contain everything.

Some people may take Zhu Houzhao as an example, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang, like him, is different, but I can tell you that although Zhu Houzhao has a long face, he is very handsome and has nothing in common with the statue of Zhang Chou. Legend has it that it is not Zhu's. After the death of Prince Zhu, Queen Zhang brought a child from outside for her position, and then King Anhua rebelled. In the election campaign, he said that the emperor was not surnamed Zhu, but a bastard. The legend can not be believed, but interestingly, after his cousin Jiajing succeeded to the throne, the traditional characteristics of Zhujiajian appeared again. It cannot be ruled out that Judy inherited his mother's appearance. I just heard that Zhu, the king of Jin, is also very beautiful. It seems that this possibility is extremely small. What a coincidence if those two beautiful portraits are fake! What a coincidence!

Actually, we can learn from Zhu Yuanzhang's life. Zhu Yuanzhang attributed the prosperity of the United States mainly to one person-Ma Huanghou. In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't get much benefit from Guo Zixing because of his wife, because his army was built by himself. Guo Zixing once doubted Zhu Yuanzhang and almost starved him to death, but Zhu Yuanzhang did improve his prestige with his father-in-law, so Chen Youliang often scolded Zhu Yuanzhang for farming by women. This sentence is to scold Zhu Yuanzhang. Although Zhu Yuanzhang was rich, when he married Ma Huanghou, he was a poor man with nothing and a monk. His name is Zhu Chongba. I wonder what Guo Zixing sees in him.

If you were a general with tens of thousands of people under your command, would you marry your daughter to an ugly man who had no money or power and had been a monk? Just because you think this person may have a bright future, how sure is this person? Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang's ugliness is not just ordinary ugliness. Just someone who wants to throw up at the sight. Viewed from the side, his face looks like a moon bud. To tell the truth, I have never seen such an ugly person in my life, including on TV. Think about it. There are many pockmarked faces on it, and the chin protrudes like a hook. Let's assume that there is such a person in the world, the ugliest! This kind of girl can marry the marshal's daughter without a wife at all.

From the later situation, Guo Zixing was not convinced of Zhu Yuanzhang's success. Coincidentally, there is another person who has the same problem as Guo Zixing. He is trying to marry his daughter to a man who is extremely ugly and has no money or power. It is also because of the so-called possibility that he is Guo Ningfei's father, Guo. Aren't these guys amazing, knowing that this kid is going to be emperor in the future? Or is Zhu Yuanzhang not ugly at all?

It is natural for everyone to criticize Zhu Yuanzhang, but I can't imagine that Tang was extremely ugly because of his so-called cruelty. As a matter of fact, a discerning person can tell at a glance that there are obvious signs of artificial exaggeration in Zhang Chou. The author adds all the ugliness that can be added to a person, such as horse face, exaggerated chin upturned, small eyes, pockmarked, obscene figure and even hunchback. If Zhu Yuanzhang has so many shortcomings, it will definitely cause.

What is the majesty of such an emperor? Is this the Emperor Hongwu who makes ministers tremble with fear? It is said that someone striking the table in Zhu Yuanzhang will make the minister look scared. The striking table in that picture will only make me feel like a clown, and no amount of imperial power can give him dignity. Anyone who has seen the statue of Zhang Chou will wonder if it is an alien.

In a word, Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly portrait is too exaggerated for reality. I didn't I don't know where this portrait came from, but anyway, judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's life, historical records and general appearance of human beings, it is very unlikely that Zhang Chou looks like Zhu Yuanzhang, because it is not realistic at all. I don't know why historians always think that Zhang Chou looks like Zhu Yuanzhang!