Bao Zheng was a famous official during the Song Dynasty, who was incorruptible, had the world in mind, thought of the people, and was deeply loved by the people.
We will find that in the various TV series, movies, and books we watch, everything that writes about Bao Zheng is a dark mess, is Bao Zheng really a dark person like the one played in the TV series? Of course, it should not be a black person, but it can only be said that the personal skin is a little special, and then it becomes a black face. Next, let me lead you to explain whether Bao Zheng is really a black face? Why was he discredited?
In order to verify whether the Qing official Bao Zheng was a black face, we consulted the "History of Song. Bao Zheng biography, but the strange thing is that we did not find a close-up of The face of Lord Bao, probably because his appearance is not obviously different from ordinary people, a place where they are all yellow people suddenly appeared a black man, and Bao Zheng is a big celebrity, if Bao Zheng has a big black face, the history books must have recorded it, and now it is not recorded, then since even such a tall history book does not record that Bao Zheng is a black face, So what reason do we have to believe that Bao Zheng has a big black face like the TV series?
Looking up the official portrait of Bao Zheng again, there is no case that Bao Zheng has a big black face, and it all has authentic provenance, so we can draw a conclusion: Bao Zheng is not black at all.
So the question is, since Bao Zheng did not have a big black face at all, who said that he had a big black face, so that later people believed that Bao Zheng had a big black face.
If it is said that Bao Zheng had a big black face to smear him, then this also makes sense, because Lord Bao Zheng was a famous clean official at that time, from different streams of defiling, all the corrupt officials he saw had to be arrested and interrogated by him, and then impeached, these corrupt officials, out of the psychology of revenge, must have kept saying bad things about Bao Zheng and rendering All kinds of bad things about Bao Zheng, plus there were certainly not a few officials impeached by Bao Zheng, they all united, and Bao Zheng could not be discredited.
Then the problem comes again, those rich and powerful corrupt officials want to smear Bao Zheng is certainly easy, they spend more money to secretly let the court painters to give Bao Zheng a color to achieve the purpose of smearing, but in the Forbidden City collection of Bao Zheng portraits, there is no black Bao Zheng ah, the official records do not mention,
Therefore, it can be seen that those enemies of Bao Zheng did not deliberately smear him.
As you may guess, Bao Zheng's smear may be deliberately done by the people.
Touching the statue was a way for the ancients to pray for blessings
On the inaugural monument of Kaifeng Province, the official found a name that had been erased, which was Bao Zheng, which showed that Bao Zheng was very popular with the people at that time, because he led by example, always thought of the people, served the people, and the people respected him very much, so they paid tribute to him in this way.
We can also infer from the roles in the opera why Bao Zheng will be smeared, in the opera, in order to make everyone familiar with various roles, it is necessary to color different theatrical characters, such as red face represents loyalty and blood, white face represents treacherous belly black,
Blackface represents integrity and fierceness
...... And Bao Zheng happens to be described as a black face.
Of course, Bao Zheng was smeared by the people, reflecting the people's desire for a clean official to stand up for them, eliminate local bullies, impeach corrupt officials, and give the poor people a stable life and self-sufficiency, then this clean official will inevitably be loved by the people.