Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, the last Dynasty ruled by Han Chinese, and during his reign restored national equality and unified the whole country, severely punished corrupt officials and created the rule of Hongwu, leaving many deeds for posterity to talk about. But compared with his exploits, posterity is more interested in his appearance, now there are two versions of Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, one is the ugly "pig waist face", the other is a very great appearance, everyone is confused by these two versions of portraits, do not know what Zhu Yuanzhang looks like.
On October 21, 1328, Haozhou Bell appeared in the evening sky a red light, people around the people thought it was on fire, ready to carry water to fight the fire, at this time a baby's cry came out, the red light gradually disappeared, people knew that the red light was brought by the baby, this baby is the later Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang from birth is different from ordinary people, according to the ancient tradition that great people born must have visions, Zhu Yuanzhang is destined to be different, in 1368, at the age of 40, he overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, setting the capital nanjing.
China has had systematic portraits of emperors since the Song Dynasty, only three emperors of the Ming Dynasty have not left portraits, Zhu Yuanzhang has left two different versions of portraits alone, this ugly portrait is said to have been painted by the Qing Dynasty, at the beginning of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, there were people who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty in order to oppress these people and control the han people's thoughts, they scandalized Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait to crush their beliefs, people in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties did not see Zhu Yuanzhang's true appearance with their own eyes, if they saw Zhu Yuanzhang grow into this ugly look, The impression of Zhu Yuanzhang will be greatly reduced, and he will not be so active in opposing the Qing.
There is also a saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was too cruel during his reign, killing many people, and making the people of the people afraid of him, they scandalized Zhu Yuanzhang on the basis of his original appearance, in order to accuse everyone of their dissatisfaction with Zhu Yuanzhang.
The above is all folklore, and the famous historian Li Yaping believes that the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, who has a very great appearance, is closer to him, because the "Ming Shi Taizu Benji" said that Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance was "majestic and majestic, and his bones were full of strange bones." Ambition is unfathomable." These 16 words are a compliment to Zhu Yuanzhang's extraordinary appearance at first glance, and Guo Zixing also said similar things when he first met Zhu Yuanzhang.
In 1352, Zhu Yuanzhang ran to the gate of Haozhou City to defect to Guo Zixing, the leader of the Red Turban Army, and his sloppy appearance attracted the attention of the city gate guards, who saw him probing his brain and thought he was a spy and arrested him to see Guo Zixing, Who was shocked at first sight of him, saying that he was "strange in appearance, unusually human", and Zhu Yuanzhang's adviser Tao An saw him for the first time and said, "Dragon posture phoenix quality, very human".
These two people knew Zhu Yuanzhang when he was not yet emperor, and there was no need to say these words of praise in order to please him, so Zhu Yuanzhang should have been partial to handsomeness, otherwise Guo Zixing would not have married his adopted daughter Empress Ma to him in a few months.
In the past 400 years of the Ming Dynasty, the discussion about Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance has not stopped, and people want to know what his true appearance is as soon as possible, but a farmer in Henan said that his family has Zhu Yuanzhang's real appearance. In 1644, the Qing army entered the customs, the descendants of the Zhu family fled to Wangjia Village in Henan, in order to survive to change their names and surnames, now there are about 200 people in this village, after several generations of intermarriage, basically are descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang.
They took out the following painting claiming to be the true appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang handed down from the Ming Dynasty, and the descendants of the Zhu family have always regarded this painting as an heirloom, so it has been preserved to this day, but because of their limited conditions, they cannot preserve the portrait without any damage, so they voluntarily hand it over to the state for preservation.
The portrait handed over by the descendants of the Zhu family is relatively close to the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in the shuai version, with a thick face and a fat nose, and the appearance of the emperor in the demeanor is also relatively close, so the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in the ancient version of Zhu Yuanzhang is the true appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang. In fact, looking at the appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants, you can also know that he cannot be a pig waist face, if he is a pig waist face, then Zhu Di and his grandchildren will also inherit, but Zhu Di and his grandchildren do not inherit, there is no one, then it can be said that the pig waist face of Zhu Yuanzhang is completely spoofed by others, harming the old Zhu Zhu for hundreds of years.