There are 422 emperors in China, except for the last emperor Puyi, who caught up with the camera era, whose appearance was recorded by the camera, and the appearance of the emperor in front of him was drawn on paper. Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there have been painting academies in the imperial palace that specialize in painting portraits of the emperor, so the appearance of the portraits of the emperors of the Song Dynasty is closest to his true appearance.
There were foreigners in the Qing Dynasty who entered China, and the people they painted in oil paintings were the same as those found out by the camera, very realistic, and the Italian missionary Lang Shining once painted a painting for Qianlong, which can be said to be the most authentic appearance of Qianlong.
We opened the computer to search for the portraits of the emperors of the previous dynasties, and basically only one version could be found, but Zhu Yuanzhang had two versions, one was the ugly "pig loin face" version, and the other was the handsome version of Wei An. Why does Zhu Yuanzhang have two worlds apart versions of the portrait, so which of these two versions is true?
When Zhu Yuanzhang defected to the Red Turban Army, Guo Ziyi met Zhu Yuanzhang for the first time and commented that his appearance was "strange and extraordinary." From this sentence, we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang looks great and is very different from ordinary people, and later Guo Ziyi felt that such a person with such a appearance must have a career in the future, so he married the righteous female empress Ma to him. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet become emperor, and his status was much lower than that of Guo Ziyi, and there was no need for Guo Ziyi to say good things in order to please Zhu Yuanzhang. If Zhu Yuanzhang really has a "pig loin face", according to the reaction of normal people, Guo Ziyi should say: "The appearance is like a pig's loin, an abnormal person", but he does not represent that Zhu Yuanzhang is not a pig loin image.
Some versions of the portrait, Zhu Yuanzhang is not only a pig waist face, there are white hemp dots on the face, Zhu Yuanzhang has pedestals on his face and has not seen which history book has recorded it, and it is true that There are ponychia on Kangxi's face. In 1657, Kangxi was 3 years old and had smallpox, leaving a pockmark on his face. In the 26th year of Kangxi, a missionary Bai Jin came from France, who said that Kangxi had a little pedestal on his skin, so Kangxi was also ridiculed by modern people as "Kang Mazi".
The real Kangxi face has pockmarks, but his portraits are not flawed at all, this is mainly because his portraits are painted by the painters of the dynasty, the painter even if he has the courage to dare not reveal the shortcomings of Kangxi, in the same way, Zhu Yuanzhang's picture of the face full of hemp and those ugly pictures are obviously not painted by the Ming Dynasty, after all, the painter also has to save his life, not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang and the people around him will definitely see how the painter paints, paint this ugly look, how can the Ming Dynasty people let this painting be handed down, These ugly paintings are most likely ugly in order to smear Zhu Yuanzhang.
In 1636, the Qing Dynasty replaced the Ming Dynasty as the last feudal dynasty, in order to destroy the Ming Dynasty's remnants of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Rulers demanded that the Han people shave their hair and change their clothes, and those who did not change their lives would be small. The biggest blow to the remnants of the Ming Dynasty was to destroy the greatest figure in their hearts, that is, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.
The following painting is a painting of the Qing Dynasty's own ugly Zhu Yuanzhang, because the white "hat" in the middle of Zhu Yuanzhang's hat is a popular thing in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang, a person who is hundreds of years away from the Qing Dynasty, how can he wear a hat with a hat.
The following two pictures are the real appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang, one is Zhu Yuanzhang's youth and adulthood, the other is his old age, the face shape, nose, and ears of the two periods are not much different, it can be seen that it is the same person's appearance in different periods. In ancient times, there was a special place to put the portrait of the emperor - the South Kaoru Hall, the South Kaoru Hall Zhu Yuanzhang had the most portraits, there were 13, but the 13 were ugly, there were more than 8, only these 2 can highlight the emperor's spirit.
The entire 12 emperors of the Qing Dynasty, only Puyi did not have a portrait, he was only 6 years old when he was deposed, there was no time to paint him, and later there was a camera, it was more convenient to take a picture than to paint a picture, and no one painted a portrait of him. Fortunately, Puyi's appearance was all filmed by the camera, and even if the future generations wanted to smear his image, they could not smear him.