Is there really a crescent moon on Bao Zheng's head in history? There can't be such a birthmark

Bao Gong, formerly known as Bao Daren, whose real name was Bao Zheng, was born in the second year of Xianping, Song Zhenzong (AD 999) and died at the age of 64. As an impartial official in ancient China, not only did he solve the case, but there were also many suspense, which was worthy of writers' reasoning by literary means. For example, why is Bao Gong's face black? This suspense case for nearly a thousand years has always aroused everyone's interest. Nowadays, the brains of primary school students are changing rapidly, and the intellectual questions of recruitment enterprise interviews will turn out this problem from time to time. Although historians have various reasonable explanations, there is no convincing conclusion. I think, if a book "The Mystery of Bao Gong's Black Face" is published, it will also be greatly favored by readers, right?

According to the present postgraduate entrance examination, Bao Gong's face is not black, and the mystery of black face is nothing more than a symbol of justice and integrity, which is a kind of "deification theory"; There are also the artistic needs of stage performances and the needs of characterization. The folk story of loyalty with a black face and treachery with a white face is a kind of well-known operas, such as "dramatic theory", "My Beauty Case", "Chisang Town" and "The Story of Grey Lanji", which makes Bao Gong "black" to the end. Of course, the most convincing argument is that Bao Gong's skin is originally black, which is one of the earliest explanations, but it is also the most untenable one.

In people's impression, Bao Gong is a man from the south of the river. In fact, he is from Bao Xiao Village, Ji Jie Township, Feidong County, Hefei City. There are many remains of Bao Gong in Hefei. In 2004, when I attended the opening ceremony of Yaming Memorial Hall in Baohe Park from Nanjing to Hefei, I went to see Baogong Temple and Liufangting, and paid special attention to the portrait of Baogong here. I saw that Lord Bao's face was not black, and there was no crescent scar in the middle of his forehead. The local literati in Hefei told me that the black-faced Bao Gong was a dramatic figure. From the portrait of Bao Zheng in the Palace Museum, it can also be proved that Mr. Bao is not afraid of people, but he has the kindness of the old man without losing the solemnity of an honest official