Regarding the history of Qin Shi Huang and Zhu Yuanzhang is not "pig waist face" we modern people can not say, because all know, who has never seen. I would like to discuss with you first the traditional Chinese painting style. In art terms, traditional Chinese painting belongs to "imaginative modeling", which is very different from the "figurative modeling" of Western painting. Simply put, it emphasizes on the "meaning rather than the shape", and focuses on the "between resemblance and non-resemblance". This is true for landscape paintings, as well as for figure paintings. Our common New Year's paintings and door gods this feature is very prominent, most of the painting method is not conventional coloring, body proportion is also extremely incongruous, the image is exaggerated, just to highlight the character. Now we see the portrait of Qin Shi Huang is said to be a well-known painter Liu Danzhai according to the Tang Dynasty painter Yan Liben, "the emperors and kings of the dynasties" in the image of the emperor reference creation, even the painting of Qin Shi Huang on the body of the coronation in the Qin Dynasty there is no great controversy, not to mention the facial image.

Let's talk about Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait, according to the "Taizu Records", Zhu Yuanzhang "and on a little longer, posture and appearance of the majestic, the will of the contours of the solitary dwelling of the sinking idea, the people can not be measured". A "posture and majestic" on the Zhu Yuanzhang portrayed as not dare to say super handsome at least is also a good-looking it. But "Ming history" in these words added a "strange bone through the top", "strange bone through the top" is that the skull protrudes, if it is true that obviously Zhu Yuanzhang do not know what disease led to skull mutation. Such a look put now how to see how ugly, how can still be when the emperor material!

"The Real Records of King Tazu" was ordered by Emperor Jianwen to edit, and then Chengzu revised several times, are the direct descendants of King Tazu, can not be ruled out the possibility of glorification of Zhu Yuanzhang. While the "Ming History" is a Manchu compilation, can not rule out the possibility of vilification. More folklore describes, Zhu Yuanzhang think this appearance is "dragon phase", deliberately let the artist painted into this kind, this is much more interesting, the dragon is long enough to look like this is shabby.

In short, before the introduction of the camera, all the historical figures we can not be clear about their real appearance. But no matter whether it is "pig waist face" or "shoe pluck face" can not cover up the achievements and status of the above two old gentleman in history, because of their ups and downs of the legendary life, our history is more colorful, beautiful and spectacular. Their great achievements will be immortalized in the annals of history and passed down through the ages.

There are a lot of portraits of emperors and kings in history, and the emperors and kings also have different styles. But such portraits are mostly four-color full-color, because of the age, become damaged, faded, fuzzy, and confined to the paper and printing technology limitations, want to clearly restore the difficulty is too great, printed out a mess. As a result, when history textbooks were printed with these portraits, they had to choose monochrome white models. This is where Wang Yuanhan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty who graduated in 1565 and was a government advisor in Shaanxi Province, came into the picture. The reason why Wang Yuanhan was related to the textbook illustrations is that he was unable to distinguish the situation of the officialdom, and he offended people when he first joined the civil service, and then he was packed up in a circle. His political opponents said "not turn is not Ming Dynasty people", so Wang Yuan Han "in addition to the Qingjiang county magistrate, transferred to Wanan. Mew Royal Historian, disobedience to the phase, out of Fujian Commander, banished to Qiongzhou magistrate. Two Zhi Jinxian, Cao County, moved to Kaizhou governor. Wang Yuan Han has been turned to late in life to realize, "not turn is to understand people," the literati is reading and writing, so "begged to return to ...... to write books for the matter. This book, a chart class encyclopedia came out of nowhere, is the "three talents will be". "Three talents" refers to "the humanity of heaven and earth", from astronomy, down to geography, and people, the universe of all things are all included. Chinese folk painters have always been limited in their imagination and lazy when painting historical figures, so the "Praise for the Ancient People Throughout the Ages" is a one-of-a-kind work. Wang Yuanhan himself could not paint and was lazy, so he could only steal the pictures from the "Zhanzi of Ancient People Throughout the Ages", and thus the "San Cai Tu Hui" was one of a kind. The editors of history textbooks chose the pictures of historical figures in the San Cai Tu Hui for printing reasons, so the textbooks were all the same. It was only cheap for Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng, who was first reincarnated as Liu Xiu, the Han Guangwu Emperor, then as Li Longji, the Tang Xuanzong Emperor, and then as Zhao Kuangyin, the Song Taizu Emperor ...... who unified China for 5,000 years after his death. The first time I saw this, I was able to see the first time I saw it!

History, no matter who can pass down the portrait of not many people, the main reason for this situation is that paper portraits can be preserved for more than a thousand years, which is still to be carefully protected to do. So we now see the paper artifacts usually not more than the Tang Dynasty, that is to say, before the Tang Dynasty, basically no emperor and generals portraits handed down. Besides, paper is the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Lun improved papermaking popularization, Qin Shi Huang that time there is no paper portraits, is no portraits handed down, as for whether there are other forms of portraits handed down, I think so far has not been found, maybe Qin Shi Huang tomb has murals, but this conjecture is not a short period of time can be verified. However, we can get a glimpse of what Qin Shi Huang looked like from the description of the Historical Records. There is a passage in which Yuhui, a native of Daliang, said in an audience with Qin Shi Huang: "The King of Qin has a high nose, long and thin eyes, a chest like a bird of prey, and a voice like that of a jackal. According to this description, I think most people can visualize the appearance of Qin Shi Huang in their mind. As for Zhu Yuanzhang's looks there are paintings and photographs passed down, we can see that one is the real Zhu Yuanzhang.

I am inclined to the first phase is Zhu Yuanzhang, folklore Zhu Yuanzhang "pig dragon phase", is very ugly, as for whether it is a pig waist face is not good to determine. The following this Qin Shi Huang phase is often found in the textbooks, is not in line with the Qin Shi Huang looks can not be verified, we can compare my paragraph description to see if it is like.

As for the Qin Shi Huang this portrait is not pig waist face I dare not conclude.