Zhu Yuanzhang: Does he really have 72 hemp seeds on his face?

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

Legend has it that on the night of Zhu Yuanzhang's birth, an old monk in Huangmiao dreamed that a Zhujiajian newborn fell from the sky and said, "This child will be expensive." Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang met a fortune teller when he was begging in his teens. The old man saw the child in a strange and imposing manner, and his brow smelled like an emperor. He couldn't help shouting, "This is an auspicious day."

Of course, the best embodiment of the "dragon" is the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang wearing a dragon robe after middle age.

There are more than a dozen such portraits, including full-length, half-length, color, black and white. Judging from the face shape, it can be divided into two completely different basic versions: one is plump and dignified, and if you take off your crown and robe, it can be used as a very beautiful QQ avatar for elderly netizens; The other has a slender face, high cheekbones, big nose and big ears, and a strange bone bulge on the top of his head. His chin stretches forward much longer than the upper jaw and looks like a pig kidney.

Is Zhu Yuanzhang's ugly portrait a spoof of folk crooked talents or a drama of social idlers?

The answer should be no.

The "Ming Taizu True Image" in the "Original Image of Emperor Qianlong" is that ugly face. The title in the upper left corner of the portrait is "Zhu Yuanzhang, whose real name is Jurong, Jiangnan and Hongwu, reigned for thirty-one years". Some people think that this is like "solemn brushwork, close to the handed down emperor * * *, and should be copied according to the palace picture book".

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

The reason is that the heads of a group of descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang-more than a dozen Ming emperors in the statues of emperors in past dynasties are quite consistent, and they are basically close to the kind faces in Zhu Yuanzhang's portraits, but quite different from the faces of Zhang Chou in the portraits. That is to say, the faces of Ming emperors handed down from generation to generation are all used to prove the faces of the first Zhang Mingchao emperor, and the conclusion is that Zhu Yuanzhang has a plump and kind face.