I believe that everyone has recently watched a very popular TV series, then it is "Daming Style". But while watching the show, I noticed a detail. Let's put aside the plot and lines and just talk about Zhu Yuanzhang.
The moment he turned around, it not only scared the people in the play, but of course also scared our audience friends. Only to see him on this TV, his expression is very vicious. His eyebrows took on an upward shape, and their brows were all wrinkled together. I saw a barrage saying, ''How is Zhu Yuanzhang's face so much like a shoehorn?' ''Look closely, it seems that this is indeed the case.'' Therefore, many people have a doubt, is the historical Zhu Yuanzhang really like this? However, there are two historical records of his appearance.
One is just like the look in the TV series, giving people the feeling of being strange and ugly. The whole face is like a shoehorn, the face is very long, and the cheekbones are very prominent, and most importantly, the eye sockets are very deep, giving people the feeling of being full of ferocity. It is said that he has thick lips and a lot of hemp on his face, and when they hear such a depiction, everyone thinks that he is very ugly. The second is more normal, saying that his eyebrows are very dark, and his eyes are very sharp, and the whole person is also kind and kind-eyed, and at the same time has a sense of majesty that a ruler should have. So which of these two statements is true?
One: Zhengshi's record of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance
The depiction of his appearance in the "Taizu Minglu" is like this, "" and slightly longer, the posture is majestic, the ambition is contoured, living alone and meditating, people cannot predict. ''
This book, written by Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants, focuses on praise. From this passage, we can guess that his figure is very large, long and very handsome, in terms of the aesthetics of the ancients, this is a heroic style.
However, the "History of Ming" does not record this, but describes him in this way, ""Longer than long, majestic in posture, and strange bones through the top." Ambition is unfathomable. ''
This is a book written by the Qing Dynasty, and many people think that it is deliberately ugly. This refers to the fact that his skull is very prominent, similar to the appearance of the TV series. However, the two books also have some similarities, such as saying that he is very tall. Whether these two books are deliberately ugly or deliberately glorified, we can tell that his appearance is indeed different from ordinary people. Therefore, whether it is handsome or ugly, it is not possible to make a conclusion for the time being.
Two: Ye Shi's record of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance
Take the folk records of him, there is a certain difference between it and the main history
。 There is a story in the "Miscellaneous Records of Shuyuan" that says so. Zhu Yuanzhang found a painter to paint himself, there is a painter who belongs to the painting is extremely real, who knows Zhu Yuanzhang is very angry when he sees it. Another painter added a lot of beautification components when painting, and the effect was very good and very different, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely happy after seeing it, and even praised him.
Some small officials also recorded some things, and he said that he would see some portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang when he was in the people, and the portraits were indeed not very good. But when he saw some portraits in the palace, he was also surprised by the gap between the two, the portraits in the palace were very handsome, and they would not make people feel fierce. It can be seen from this that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a big gap between the evaluation of him in the palace and the evaluation of him by the people.
When we look at the portraits of all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, we will find that except for Zhu Yuanzhang, every emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a dignified and ruler. But only Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait does not look very good, and it can even be said that it is a little ugly. And the emperor after him, who is also his descendant, must have his genes. Therefore, it always feels that some things don't make sense, and the emperor after him must also have his blood, so why doesn't anyone else look like this?
If you say this, you can't rule out the suspicion of ugliness. After all, he continued to kill later, which hurt the hearts of many literati, so many people in the folk also slandered him. And like the later Qing Dynasty, it is definitely necessary to smear the Ming Dynasty to some extent. In this way, it can be somewhat reasonable, and spreading those ugly portraits among the people is itself a means of ugliness for Zhu Yuanzhang. Although he is not handsome, he is definitely not as ugly as he is, and may be worse than ordinary people.