[Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty, was born in commoner, reigned for 31 years, and was respected among ancient emperors. However, the true appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang has always been the focus of future generations. Different from other emperors, there are two extremes in Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance. Some people say that he is extremely ugly, with a shoehorn face and pockmarked face; it is also said that Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance is majestic and his ugly image is deliberately discredited. result.
[Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] One thing is certain, the Manchu Dynasty made tampering when editing the Ming History. So, will Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance be discredited? Scholars said that the Manchu Dynasty did discredit Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance. Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang’s appearance, Liu Bowen, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, described it like this: “High forehead, thin eyes, concave nose and wide lips, ears are small but thick, cheeks are protruding and chins are strong; the body is long and arched, legs are long and knees arched, The waist is thick and the shoulders are narrow, the hands are broad and the fingers are thin; the action is like a shrimp in the water, and the sound is the eagle and the ape.
[Zhu Yuanzhang portrait] Liu Bowen thinks that Zhu Yuanzhang looks extraordinary, so he concludes He came to a conclusion, "The appearance of this person is both the simplicity of a great sage and the brutality of a rape. "The portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang selected for this group of photos has appeared since the Qing Dynasty. The ancient palace has a special collection of portraits of the emperors and empresses of previous dynasties, much like today's photo albums. During the Ming Dynasty, the portraits of the empresses were collected in the inner library. After closing, the portrait was re-mounted and hidden in the Nanxun Hall.
[Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] Among the many portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Man Qing collection, most of them are "high foreheads, thin eyes, concave nose and wide lips. Although the ears are small but thick, the cheeks are protruding and the chin is thick". In layman's terms, it is a shoehorn face or a pig waist face. Zhang Han (1510-1593) from the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Mengyu Song Chuang" The portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang was described in the book. When he was in Nan Sikong, he had been in the Wuying Hall and saw the portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.
[Zhu Yuanzhang Portrait] Zhang Han wrote: The ancestor's Rong, eyebrows and torches, straight nose and long lips, face like a full moon, must not be full of feet, very different from folk legends. "Coincidentally, Zhang Xuan, a native of Wanli, also saw the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang with his own eyes. He wrote: "The emperor is a beautiful husband. The beards and beards are all silver silk, countable, not very repaired. It doesn't matter whether the dragon-shaped beards and twelve sunspots are also . ”
[Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] Judging from the descriptions of Zhang Han and Zhang Xuan, Zhu Yuanzhang does not look ugly, and the round-faced handsome image is the closest to his true appearance. However, the middle and late Ming Dynasty There have been some ugly images of Zhu Yuanzhang, such as the face of Zhu Yuanzhang, but it was not popular at the time. According to historical records, the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang with the face version of Zhu Yuanzhang has even entered the collection of princes and nobles.
[Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he deified Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance. The Record of Ming Taizu compiled by Zhu Di was recorded in the article "Wu Yuannian (1367) December Wushen": Yu Xiang, then the meat of the Xiang had a slight pain, suspecting his illness. After taking medicine to Fu Zhi, there is no test, and then the bones become prosperous, very different. "It means that Zhu Yuanzhang had a dream, dreaming that he had a jade birch around his neck, and then it melted into the flesh and became a different bone bulge.
[Ugly portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] Ancient people were very superstitious. Zhu Yuanzhang is also the same. Before Zhu Yuanzhang's fortune, a Taoist priest named Tieguan showed him the picture. Tieguan said: "The appearance is very beautiful, with dragons and phoenix eyes, heaven and earth face each other, the five mountains are attached, the sun and the moon are beautiful. , Auxiliary bone piercing the temples, the voice is loud and expensive. However, the four-dimensional stagnation is like clouds moving and the moon rises, and the head of the happy person is Huang Ming, running through the heaven. Wait until the energy is radiant, like the wind sweeps the shadows, that is, the day of the order, it should be within a thousand days. "
[Real Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang] Some netizens commented on Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance like this, "Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely not look ugly. There are three reasons: First, the ancient generals are all looks. A handsome and tall person; second, Guo Ziyi can’t let her righteous daughter marry an ugly monster; the third queen of horses is not a weak woman, if she doesn’t like someone you just kill her with a knife, she won’t Married. "So ZhuYuan Zhang does not look ugly, his ugly image is the result of Man Qing deliberately discredited.
