Is Zhu Yuanzhang ugly?

How did Zhu Yuanzhang, the Great Ancestor of Ming Dynasty, look like? Ten years ago in primary and secondary school history textbooks about Zhu Yuanzhang's illustration is strangely ugly, looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait brings horror, the picture of Zhu Yuanzhang's face is very long, chin like a hook protruding outward, a face of pimples, and hunchback. And now the textbook portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, kind eyebrows, snow-white beard, the expression exudes a gentle, upright features. With the previous Zhu Yuanzhang is like two people, the two portraits of people have a world of difference, the two people do not have the slightest connection, which makes engaged in the history of the teaching of the Mr. difficult, and even more so that many uninitiated students wonder, could it be that the later years of Zhu Yuanzhang facelift! In his biography of Zhu Yuanzhang, Mr. Wu Han, a great historian of Ming history, provides readers with four images of Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning of the book, each of which occupies exactly one full page. The first Zhu Yuanzhang in court dress, sitting on the dragon chair, the image of ugly, black face, forehead and temples high bulging, prominent cheekbones, big nose, big ears, thick eyebrows, a pair of eyes bulging, emitting a cold smile, broad chin than the forehead is longer than the exchange of two hands on the sleeve to get ambiguous, the painting is hidden in the National Palace Museum. The image of the second picture is more or less the same as the first one, it is Zhu Yuanzhang sitting on a simple chair in civilian clothes, it is a side portrait, this picture is collected in the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing. Zhu Yuanzhang in the third picture is strong and powerful, dressed in imperial clothes, full of energy, gazing ahead with a sharp eye, both hands firmly on the lap, revealing an unconquerable imperial aura, this picture should be the middle-aged Zhu Yuanzhang, about the same age as the first two pictures, which were taken from the Chinese emperor and queen of all times. The fourth is the old age of zhu yuanzhang, is a bust, like today to take the exam with the standard photo, like zhu yuanzhang wearing dragon robe, aspect of the big ears, thick eyebrows and big eyes, eyes through the kind of light, white beard a dignified portrait of the elders, there is a god-like majesty, let the little man fear, let the gentleman respect, this collection in the National Palace Museum. It can be seen Wu?i for Zhu Yuanzhang's looks are beautiful and ugly is not clear, but Wu?i put the ugly two in front, the two beautiful in the back, expressed his tendency to be ugly is more likely.

Rigorous historians adhere to the textual information, "Ming Dynasty. This biography" on Zhu Yuanzhang's account is "capital appearance strange, strange bone crown top". That is, Zhu Yuanzhang's looks very special, belong to the very ugly type. In the folk about Zhu Yuanzhang's real looks, there is a wonderful, evocative story, which is usually referred to as the wild history.

It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne and became the emperor, he ordered the world's master painters to paint his portrait. The first painter is very serious, carefully traced, painted a wonderful, painted Zhu Yuanzhang real look, Zhu Yuanzhang look at the dragon face angry, hands will be the waist of the jade belt down a heavy pressure, this is Zhu Yuanzhang want to kill the customary action, like Guan Yu a stare to kill, the left and right of the guards will be the pragmatic painter pushed out and beheading.

The second painter drew lessons from the first painter, Zhu Yuanzhang painted handsome, extraordinary temperament, Zhu Yuanzhang looked even more angry, that the painter in flattering, only to beautify him, did not paint the real him, the crime of deceiving the king, the painter out of the kill again! The third painter from the former two painters learned from experience, and realized the reason for being killed, through the psychological speculation on Zhu Yuanzhang, found that Zhu Yuanzhang worship Liu Gang, Liu Gang's portrait of the serious study, the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang's face only traced the shape of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang painted full of peace, kind eyebrows, but also show the majesty of the calm. Zhu Yuanzhang looked very satisfied with the reward for the painter let him go home, and then ordered people to copy a lot of sheets and were rewarded to the prince and ministers, which is the most beautiful of the two.

The painter went home and drew Zhu Yuanzhang according to his memory, and kept the painting, which is the ugliest one.

Whether Zhu Yuanzhang's looks are beautiful or ugly? For this reason, people from all walks of life have their own opinions, rigorous historians from the text and portraits that Zhu Yuanzhang should be very ugly, and people who love Zhu Yuanzhang often also with personal favorites from the beauty of the picture for Zhu Yuanzhang to defend. They looked up the portraits of the Ming emperors and found that all the Ming emperors had wide faces, square faces, and gnarled beards, and from genetics, they reasoned that Zhu Yuanzhang, as their ancestor, must not have been very bad looking. Even from Zhu Yuanzhang young married the rich and powerful young beautiful Ma Xiuying, deduced that Zhu Yuanzhang must be handsome, if it is really strange-looking, face shape is like a horizontal pendulum of three-dimensional "mountain" word, Ma Xiuying certainly will not be willing.