Zhu Yuanzhang has 72 hemp seeds on his face? The mystery of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance

Some people may say that there are not two kinds of portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang circulating in history. But he was like this when he was emperor. This is what he looks like after he is 40 years old. Just now, when it comes to the birth of a baby, how can I make it clear?

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in the Year of the Loong. This child is a dragon, and later became the real dragon emperor who ruled China. He said that he has a "dragon" appearance, which can stand the test of history, at least the test of folklore.

Legend has it that on the night of Zhu Yuanzhang's birth, the old monk in Huangsi dreamed that the newborn in Zhujiajian Island fell from the sky and said, "This child will be expensive in the future." Another legend is that Zhu Yuanzhang met a fortune-telling teacher when he was begging in his teens. The old teacher saw the child's strange appearance, imposing manner and the emperor's air in his brow, and he couldn't help crying, "This is an auspicious day." Of course, the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang's middle-aged dragon robe is the best representation of "dragon"

There are more than a dozen such portraits, full body, bust, color, black and white. From the face, it can be divided into two completely different bottom plates: one is plump, dignified and kind. If you take off your robe, it can be used as a very beautiful QQ avatar for elderly netizens; The other has a slender face, high cheekbones, a big nose, big ears, a strange bone bulge on the top of his head, and a chin much longer than the upper jaw, which looks like a pig's waist.

Is Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, an ugly face, a parody of folk talents or a drama of social idlers? The answer should be no.

The "real image of Ming Taizu" recorded in the original statue of the emperor during the Qianlong period was that ugly face. In the upper left corner of the portrait, the title is "Zhu Yuanzhang's real name, Jurong, Jiangnan native, Hongwu reigned in the thirty-first year". Some people think that this is like "solemn brushwork, close to the portraits of emperors in previous dynasties, and should be copied according to the palace picture book."

However, some people are skeptical about the authenticity of Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly portrait. Physiologically and genetically, they value a plump and rich face more.

The reason is that a group of descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang and the heads of more than a dozen Ming emperors are quite consistent, and basically close to Zhang's face in Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, which is very different from the portrait. In other words, the faces of so many Ming emperors handed down from generation to generation were used to prove the faces of the first Zhang Mingchao emperor. The conclusion is that Zhu Yuanzhang has a plump and kind face.

It should be said that neither those who value ugly faces nor those who value good faces can produce conclusive evidence. Perhaps both faces are not Zhu Yuanzhang himself 600 years ago, but this does not prevent people from recognizing Zhu Yuanzhang according to their own feelings. Zhu Yuanzhang, in the eyes of Fengyang people in his hometown, is an ugly bald man with a long face and 72 hemp seeds.

They think that the ugly long face covered with pockmarked faces is the real Zhu Yuanzhang. They think this long face is very vivid and can be integrated with the suffering Fengyang people. And that kind portrait with a generous face completely lost Zhu Yuanzhang's simplicity of herding cattle in his childhood, the bitterness of begging by teenagers, the bravery of teenagers in the battlefield, the power of middle-aged domineering, the kindness to Fengyang's fellow villagers, and the unique tolerance bred by Fengyang's barren land.

So, in Fengyang longxing temple, the ugly portrait of pockmarked face has been preserved for hundreds of years.