What does Zhu Yuanzhang, who was frightened by Daming Fenghua, really look like？
The TV series "Daming Fenghua" is being broadcast, but the popularity is mediocre. Recently, because Zhu Yuanzhang, who is Daming Fenghua, was scared into a hot search in Weibo, netizens couldn’t accept the shape of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang’s style in the TV series "Daming Fenghua" is like this:
Many people can’t accept this face, thinking that Daming Fenghua is "restoring my image according to the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Qing Dynasty", and accordingly lambasted the TV series for making it up.
Netizens also have different opinions.
So what does Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, look like?
Let me show you two portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, in the existing Palace Museum.
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Obviously, the kindness of the first painting and the hideousness of the second painting are not the same person, but they are spread to future generations in a high-sounding manner. It is said that because several painters have died in these two paintings, if we sum up these two paintings in one sentence, there is actually a huge gap between the contents described in the paintings and the objects described. So which pair is close to the truth?
Next, let’s take a look at two paintings circulating among the people.
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This portrait, the white "hat" on Zhu Yuanzhang’s hat (the part circled in the red circle), is a typical feature of the Qing Dynasty, which was absolutely impossible to appear in the early Ming Dynasty where Zhu Yuanzhang himself lived.
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This portrait, the neckline of Zhu Yuanzhang’s clothes (as shown by the red circle), is also a typical "wide-character collar", and such clothes were also not available in the early Ming Dynasty. Obviously, these two portraits could never have been born in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, or even appeared in the early Qing Dynasty. Therefore, it seems really possible to say that these portraits were forged by the Manchu Dynasty. Ming Taizu’s true image included in the original statues of emperors in Qianlong years is a long face and ugly face.
As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, also made a big public opinion about his appearance. In order to shape Zhu Yuanzhang’s dragon image, his advisers really took great pains. Dragons have a long face, so the counselors stretched Zhu Yuanzhang’s chin, and Zhu Yuanzhang changed his big face into a long and narrow cheek, and grew a "dragon jaw". Dragons have a dragon beard. Since ancient times, there has been a saying among the people that "Qiu" is a legendary little dragon with horns, and Qiu is especially long in two. It becomes a pair of eyes-catching, intense longan, and the dragon is covered with scales. Even if it becomes an adult, Long Lin can’t completely retreat, and some traces will remain. So people describe the spots on his face, that is, dark spots like pockmarked spots, as Long Lin, which is not degraded and clean. These characteristics are experienced in Zhu Yuanzhang’s ugly portraits, with long and narrow cheeks, deep eyebrows, big ears and rhinoplasty, thick beard, full of spots on his face and five senses. That is to say, this ugly portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang is for the sake of becoming an emperor. According to the appearance of the dragon, people pieced together and finally formed such an extremely ugly portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang.
At present, there are 13 existing portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, with the largest number of portraits with dragon images, up to eight. These portraits are the portraits prepared by Zhu Yuanzhang in his early days to become emperor, mainly measured by the ancient "dragon image" standard in China. This appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a symbol of the true dragon emperor. The "strange appearance" represents the magical fate, which contains the destiny.
According to various analyses, the portrait of Nanxun Hall in the Forbidden City is more reliable for the following reasons:
First of all, there are two official portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanxun Hall, one is Zhang Zhongnian, and the other is in his later years. These two portraits are highly similar. It can be seen that the painter should refer to the appearance of the same person in different periods. If Zhu Yuanzhang’s appearance is not like this, it is difficult for the painter to forge the portraits of the two age stages seamlessly.
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Secondly, from the perspective of genetics, the portraits of Ming Taizu’s descendants, starting from Zhu Di, the Ming emperor, were all big ears, and all the way to Zhu Qizhen, the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang’s grandson, Zhu Qizhen left a "big and round head" appearance description in the record. It can be seen that the genes of the Zhu family in Daming are really strong, so it is inferred that Zhu Yuanzhang’s own appearance will not be ugly.
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From this, we can draw a conclusion that the true image of Zhu Yuanzhang should be closer to the official normal version of the portrait. The ugly appearance of "shoehorn" is mainly due to the superstition and deification of the ancient emperors, and it also has a certain relationship with the "smearing" of the Manchu Dynasty.
The first painting in this paper, Ming Taizu, is kind-hearted and gray-bearded, just like a kind-hearted old man, which is in great contrast with his early portraits of the real dragon emperor. If we look at the portraits of fifteen emperors in the later Ming Dynasty from the perspective of genetics, none of them are the same as the ugly portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang, but on the contrary, they are very similar to the portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang’s emperors in his later years. From this point, we can infer that perhaps the real Zhu Yuanzhang is not as ugly as the legend.
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