Is Bao Zheng in real history an honest and upright official like his image in TV series?

Mention Bao Zheng, we will think of civet cats for prince, dragon head spear, black face, dark skin and other keywords, and he has a crescent-shaped scar on his head and a thick black beard, and he is not angry and arrogant.

There are different opinions about the crescent moon on Bao Zheng's head. Some people say that the crescent scar on Bao Zheng's head was stamped by horseshoes, others say that it was printed on his head with crescent wood divination used in ancient fortune telling, and some even say that Bao Zheng had it when he was born.

In any case, Bao Zheng's fixed image in our hearts is an unyielding and upright official with a dark face and a crescent-shaped scar on his forehead. Until the portrait of Bao Zheng appeared:

This white-bearded man with a slightly kind white face turned out to be Bao Zheng.

How did Bao Zheng change from a white face to a black face? In fact, there are several statements in it.

Drama facial makeup says that in Beijing Opera, different colors of facial makeup represent different roles: for example, Cao Cao with a white face is insidious, Guan Yu with a red face is brave, and Bao Zheng's black facial makeup represents honesty and integrity.

Judging from the evolution of Bao Zheng's facial makeup, the earliest Bao Zheng facial makeup had no crescent, only two tall white eyebrows and a black face.

Then Bao Zheng's facial makeup evolved into two white eyebrows, a black face, and a picture of Yin and Yang fish hanging on his head. At this time, it has the image of Bao Gong, the "yin and yang judge" in the folklore we mentioned earlier.

Later, people changed the fish of yin and yang on Bao Zheng's Facebook into a crescent moon, which became the familiar Facebook of Bao Gong.

Unscrupulous: Bao Zheng has been carrying out selfless and honest words all his life.

According to folklore, Bao Zheng "breaks people by day and ghosts by night". The black face represents Bao Zheng's majesty and integrity, and the crescent moon on his head is a pass, a pass from the underworld to the underworld.

Through this pass, Bao shuttled between Yin and Yang, interrogating corrupt officials during the day and punishing wild ghosts and evil spirits at night. In this process, if you want to deter those ghosts, you must have a dignified face to form a considerable deterrent. There are poems praising Bao Zheng:

Who can solve the mystery in the poem? Bao Gong was shocked by a broken ghost.

People who send voices to darkrooms are guilty. They don't know the truth.

At that time, in the Song Dynasty, there was a saying: If you can't reach the joint, you will have Yamaraja to stay old. This means that in this world, the only places where you can't get through the joints are terrifying and Bao Zheng.

The impression of "tough face" is "black face". As for the crescent moon at the back, it means "mirror hanging high", which means that Bao Zheng is honest and clean.

In addition, in the impression of the people, Bao Zheng is a fighter who dares to fight against evil forces, lawless ministers and bad kings.

People think that a white-flour scholar is absolutely impossible to be competent for this struggle task without tying chickens with his hands. Therefore, the people constructed the image of Bao Zheng as a "black-faced Bao Gong", and as a representative of honest officials, he made profits for the people.

Bao Gong's image is a black face with a crescent moon hanging on his head, although this is not in line with history. However, it has formed people's inherent impression of Bao Gong. Since the Millennium, Bao Zheng has changed, but the yearning for honest officials will never change.