Is Zhu Yuanzhang really ugly? The appearance of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang has always been a very interesting topic. In the movie, there is a photo of the film emperor Liao Fan and the Taizu Emperor, which surprised the editor. Until two years ago, Xiaobian watched a film and television drama that restored Taizu's appearance, which shocked me. As the founder of the Ming Dynasty, did Zhu Yuanzhang really look so shocking?
In fact, there are a total of 13 portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang that have survived to the modern era of this Ming Dynasty court, one of which is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the remaining 12 are in the Palace Museum in Taiwan Province. Of the thirteen surviving portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, one is that Zhu Yuanzhang in the portrait presents a mighty and dignified round-faced handsome general. The other is the face and chin of Liao Fan, who we are familiar with. So which of these two appearances is Zhu Yuanzhang's true appearance? Let's first look at the portrait of his son Zhu Di, which is like this, and it is also a dignified face with a round face.
Let's take a look at the portraits of his grandson Zhu Gaozi and his grandson Zhu Zhanji, which are also dignified and mighty faces. From the biological genetics students, if there was no help from uncle Wang next door, Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance should also be the same as Zhu Di's descendants, showing this round face dignified and mighty. Zhang Han, an official of the Ming Dynasty, once entered the imperial palace and saw this portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang.
According to his records, Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance was described in this way, the appearance of Taizu, the eyebrows embroidered with torches, the nose straight and the lips long, the face like a full moon, and the beard was not a ruler, which was very different from the legendary image of the folk. In this record, we can see that the Ming Dynasty officially recognized that Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait should be round-faced and handsome, which is completely different from the image of this long face spread by the people.
After Zhang Xuan of the Ming Dynasty saw the real portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in the inner mansion, he also said that Emperor Gao was a beautiful husband, which proved that Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance was not ugly, but very handsome. It is not difficult for us to observe carefully and find that the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang's handsome face is also very similar to the portrait style of the successors of the Zhu family in terms of painting techniques and clothing. This can prove that this handsome portrait is the true face of Zhu Yuanzhang, and it is also from the royal handwriting.
As for this ugly photo of the long face, just looking at the costumes and crowns, it is completely inconsistent with the style of Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji, the emperors of later generations. So why did the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly photo circulate? This is thanks to his good son Zhu Di. After the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di sat on the throne and the Taizu Shilu, which was revised by the Jianwen Dynasty, became a piece of Zhu Di's heart disease. In order to whitewash the legitimacy of his throne, Zhu Di twice revised the Taizu Shilu, and the content of this modification included the appearance of his father Zhu Yuanzhang, who himself believed in this xiangshu.
In the eyes of the ancients, every successful person must be an artist, so that it is a symbol of innate excellence. The so-called innate vision, there will be noble people coming. It is better to meet some dragons at birth, see legends such as red light, and that would be more perfect. The so-called divine right of kings sought their status as legitimate emperors through their strange appearance, and the heavy disciples wanted to prove the legitimacy of their old Zhu emperorship. After all, their family was born too low. The revised Taizu Shilu records a very interesting thing, saying that this Zhu Yuanzhang slept one day, had a dream, and when he woke up, Zhu Yuanzhang had a bulging skull, an elongated face, and a completely changed appearance. The description of Zhu Yuanzhang's strange appearance in the Records of Taizu is very necessary for Zhu Di, who has gained the country incorrectly. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang's photos of the opposite sex with a long face were widely circulated and deeply rooted in people's hearts.