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The recent hit "Daming Style" has made many melon-eating masses relish, there are soup only ugly hairstyles, there are also laughs that are not rigorous, but the most topical is Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance in the play, full of shoehorn face.
In addition to light spraying, many melon-eating masses are also curious, what does the real Zhu Yuanzhang look like?
Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance, the Ming Shi Taizu Benji records, "The posture is majestic, and the bones are through the top." Ambition is unfathomable", which is not the same thing as the shoehorn face we see now.
In addition, Zhang Han, the Southern Sikong, had served in the Wuying Hall and admired Zhu Yuanzhang's great appearance, and he wrote in the "Dream of the Pine Window", "The appearance of Taizu, the distance between the eyebrows, the straight nose and long lips, the face is like a full moon, and the beard is not a ruler, which is very different from the legendary image of the folk." "
Through these two descriptions, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance is not what we see today. But why are there so many portraits portraying Zhu Yuanzhang as the face of a shoehorn? Even in textbooks, it's confusing.
Some scholars believe that Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance today is that after the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing, in order to demonize Ming Taizu, he strengthened The Manchu
As a result of the tampering with it by the Qing dynasty, because the Qianlong Emperor had sorted out the images of the Southern Xuan Hall, Qianlong deliberately kept a number of ugly photos of Ming Taizu and only two official photos.
This statement can stand up at first glance, but under closer examination, loopholes will be found, because it is mentioned in the "Song Window Dream Language" that the ugly photos of Zhu Yuanzhang that were circulated by the people at that time were already different from Zhen Rong.
The reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's image has become like this, entirely because of himself.
The ancients believed that "strangers must have different phases", such as the "History of Xiang Yu Benji" recorded, "I smell the Zhou Sheng yue, Shunmu covers heavy pupils, and smells Xiang Yu also has heavy pupils", saying that Shun and Xiang Yu are both heavy pupils, with the appearance of emperors, and as described in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei "has two ears hanging from his shoulders, hands over his knees, eyes can look after his ears, his face is like a crown jade, and his lips are greased", all refer to "different people have different faces".
Zhu Yuanzhang was born into extreme poverty, so he was very worried that others would look down on him, so in order to make the world feel that his Jiangshan was ordained by heaven, so he did a lot of work, including formulating the format of the beginning of the holy will as "Fengtian Carrying Fortune, Emperor Zhao yue"; writing articles such as "Biography of the Immortals of Zhou Dynasty" and "Ji Meng" to mythologize himself; and also to spread the suspicious image of his "god in its form and strange shape" among the people, in order to prove that he is the true son of heaven and the destiny of heaven.
This also leads to the fact that of the thirteen surviving portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, only two are Zhu Yuanzhang's true appearance, and the rest are shown in "alien appearance". I have to say that in order to sit firmly in the country, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think of any way.