Lessons from the past, lessons from the future!
Although modern people have not seen what the ancient emperors looked like, we can roughly see what the emperors looked like based on the portraits they left behind.
Basically, all the emperors have portraits handed down, so that future generations can see the "dragon face". The portraits of the ancient emperors are basically the same, but only Zhu Yuanzhang is different, he has two portraits, and the difference between the two portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang is 108,000 miles, it does not look like a person at all, one is extremely ugly, one has thick eyebrows and big eyes!
Therefore, posterity is more confused, so what does the real Zhu Yuanzhang look like?
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, in order to let the descendants of the Zhu family see his face, he decided to paint his own appearance for future generations to admire.
Zhu Yuanzhang found a painter into the palace to paint a portrait of him, and as a result, this painter was killed, why? Because Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the portrait painted by the painter for himself was too ugly, Zhu Yuanzhang was not happy and killed the painter.
After the death of the first painter, Zhu Yuanzhang found a second painter, and the second painter heard about the first painter, and he thought that Zhu Yuanzhang did not like ugly, he liked handsome, so he painted Zhu Yuanzhang very handsome.
After Zhu Yuanzhang saw his own portrait, there were many question marks in his heart, was this person himself? Is he really so handsome? What he looked like, Zhu Yuanzhang was still clear in his heart, although he was very handsome, he was not as handsome as on the portrait.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the second painter was deceiving the king, so he also killed him. Zhu Yuanzhang was very distressed in his heart, could there be no one under the heavens who could draw his appearance?
Zhu Yuanzhang found a portrait of the three painters, the three painters heard about the first two painters, he had an idea in his heart, since Zhu Yuanzhang did not like ugly, nor did he like handsome, then come to a moderate, take an average.
The three painters have their own beauty function, he did not open the beauty to the tenth level, but to the fifth level, and painted Zhu Yuanzhang under the fifth level of beauty, neither ugly nor handsome, it is a public face.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to see such a self, and he was deeply pleased with him, and he was rewarded heavily. In this way, the three painters relied on their wit and cleverness to survive by chance.
So what does Zhu Yuanzhang really look like? Whether it is the facial features are upright, the appearance is dignified, or the face is full of numbness, strange and ugly, this has always been a problem. Dear officials, what kind of look do you think Zhu Yuanzhang really looks like?
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Records of the Ming Dynasty, etc