There is indeed a plot in the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty", Yongzheng wears a golden wig, sitting on the Golden Ruan Hall, and there is a foreign painter painting him below.
Personally, I feel that this plot is mainly to highlight the Yongzheng Emperor's will to reform. At that time, the New Deal was facing a bottleneck, and the struggle between innovation and conservative forces had reached a fever pitch. Wearing a blonde wig and Western-style clothing to paint portraits seemed to the tradition at that time to be solemn, and even risked being the biggest in the world. But the Yongzheng Emperor wanted to tell his subjects in this way that as long as it was something that Yuan wanted to do, He would risk the world's great disobedience, and no matter what, the New Deal must be implemented.
Moreover, this is a TV series adapted from a historical novel, although there are many fictional plots, but there is still a need to restore some real details of history, such as the fact that the Yongzheng Emperor liked cosplay, which actually existed.
The image of the emperor has been a major event in all dynasties and dynasties, so generally speaking, the portrait of the emperor is what we often call the standard portrait today, the image is positive, calm, majestic, and there is no personal emotion in it. Especially the standard portraits of emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties, more or less so.
Of course, we can also see some aspects of the emperor's personal life from the paintings of the court, but most of these aspects are also to show the characteristics of the emperor, such as reading, riding horses, war, etc., without any worldly fireworks.
But the Yongzheng Emperor was different, and he allowed the painter to draw a series of "Xingle Tu" for himself. In the picture, he is no longer the workaholic who is bored and silent, nor is he the cold-faced king who looks at the wolf with a vicious eagle, but incarnates into various characters, including a high-lying literati, an elegant organist, a lone fisherman, a brave hunter, a mysterious monk, and a Western image wearing a golden wig, which can be described as an ancient version of cosplay.
The Yongzheng Emperor was neither like his father, the Kangxi Emperor nor his son, the Qianlong Emperor, these two emperors were born in the prosperous world, toured the south and hunted the north, good poetry, good wine, fun, and life was colorful and tasteful. And the Yongzheng Emperor succeeded to the throne in middle age, in the face of the crisis, during his reign neither southern tour amusement, nor north hunting, in addition to the most basic rest, time is almost spent on work, the only entertainment may be cosplay, and then let the painter record this rare moment.
It can also be seen that the Yongzheng Emperor was not a dull and dull emperor. Although he suppressed Catholics during his reign, he himself did not reject Western things, and actively integrated and actively tried. In addition to these so-called gadgets, the Yongzheng Emperor also introduced more important firearms reforms. It can be seen that compared with the Daoguang Emperor, who later knew nothing about the West, the Yongzheng Emperor was not a closed and conservative emperor.