China's history has a long history, after many dynastic changes, the number of emperors produced is as high as hundreds. In that era, although there were no video cameras, emperors would generally ask painters to paint a portrait of themselves so that their images could continue to be passed on. However, among the many portraits of emperors, why are Ming emperors generally very fat, while Qing emperors are relatively thin?
Friends who like history may know that the Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, but he was born into a poor family, not born into the emperor's family, so his life was very poor when he was a child. Therefore, after he became emperor, he never paid too much attention to eating, and he ate whatever the cook did at every meal, and he did not consider scientific diet at all. Therefore, under his influence, the later emperors of the Ming Dynasty basically liked to eat, so they were relatively fat.
Moreover, most of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty rarely went out to move, such things as hunting and conquest rarely happened to them, and even a few emperors did not even go to the early dynasty, so their figures became fat. According to records, one of the thinnest emperors of the Ming Dynasty was the Yongle Emperor, who during his reign liked to go with the army or go hunting, but except for him, the other emperors were almost all fat.
In fact, the image in the portrait of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty looks fat, and the aesthetics of people at that time also have a certain relationship, in that era, people think that the fat figure not only represents the blessing, but also represents the strength of the country. After all, only by eating well will you become fat, so people think that the emperor as the king of a country naturally cannot be thin, otherwise he will embarrass the country. Therefore, the painters at that time would also paint fatter when they painted portraits of emperors, so the images in many emperor portraits of the Ming Dynasty were relatively fat.
In the Qing Dynasty, the emperors began to pay attention to the health of eating, even if they did not like it, they had to eat a bite of every dish on the dinner table. As a result, their bodies will certainly be very healthy, and naturally there will be no excessive obesity. So seeing the end, I don't know if everyone understands it?