Women of Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty,

Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying

Queen Ma was one of Zhu Yuanzhang's women, and also the empress of Zhu Yuanzhang later on.Talking about Empress Ma, she was an absolutely amazing character, who followed Zhu Yuanzhang before Zhu Yuanzhang had made his fortune She also saved Zhu Yuanzhang's life. Zhu Yuanzhang was suspected by Guo Zixing because he was too bright, so Guo Zixing arrested Zhu Yuanzhang, and at the same time ordered the soldiers not to feed Zhu Yuanzhang, trying to starve Zhu Yuanzhang to death.

At this time, Ma Xiuying came to visit Zhu Yuanzhang, she hid the freshly made big cake in her chest for Zhu Yuanzhang to eat, and burned herself every time, but every time she did so until Zhu Yuanzhang was released. It can be said that this is an example of a poor and lowly couple, and it was what Ma Xiuying did that made Zhu Yuanzhang respect her so much that he would discuss many things with her.

Ma Xiuying herself is a very remarkable character, who is gentle and virtuous, knowledgeable, is Zhu Yuanzhang's wise wife, has been helping Zhu Yuanzhang in his own unique way, but also to help her keep those loyal ministers.

As Zhu Yuanzhang's woman, Empress Ma did everything she could to devote herself to Zhu Yuanzhang, and with her help Zhu Yuanzhang cut down on a lot of bad decisions and kept a number of loyal ministers. To the late years, Zhu Yuanzhang regicide is also Queen Ma in persuasion, this time Zhu Yuanzhang also only listen to her alone, she even became the spiritual pillar of Zhu Yuanzhang, she died after Zhu Yuanzhang extremely sad, carried out a thick burial.

Zhu Yuanzhang good color

Zhu Yuanzhang is a more legendary emperor, is also the only one in the history of our country to the poor as the emperor, so

Zhu Yuanzhang good color stills

First of all to show here is that Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good colorful person, people think Zhu Yuanzhang good colorful is because of some TV dramas of misleading. In some TV dramas, Zhu Yuanzhang not only dominated other people's women during the war, but also ****ed his own maid, causing her to jump into a well and die.

Actually, these are all made up and Zhu Yuanzhang did not do these things. Others say that Zhu Yuanzhang had forty concubines in his harem, which also shows that Zhu Yuanzhang was horny, but in the ancient times of China it was a polygamous system, and it was relatively normal for a man to have a lot of women, and a usual rich family would have a lot of wives and concubines, not to mention that Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor.

So these also can not show that Zhu Yuanzhang good sex, on the contrary Zhu Yuanzhang is the history of one of the less good sex emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang was forty years old when he became emperor, he was a poor farmer, so he was very concerned about the plight of the people, after he became emperor, he has been busy in the political affairs, every day up early and late at night work, for the harem is really rarely go.

Zhu Yuanzhang not good color this point in history can be verified, so here to Zhu Yuanzhang right name. But there is a point that needs to be clarified, Zhu Yuanzhang in the death of the implementation of martyrdom, in addition to the two concubines who died before him, the other are martyred for him, this is another side of him, but also can not be used as a proof of Zhu Yuanzhang good sex.

Was Zhu Yuanzhang afraid of his wife

Zhu Yuanzhang, also known as Zhu Chongba, was the founding emperor during the Ming Dynasty and one of the most industrious emperors in China. His wife was Empress Bigfoot Ma, also known as Empress Gao Ma. Was Zhu Yuanzhang afraid of his wife? In movies and television we can see that Zhu Yuanzhang is very afraid of his wife, so what is the factual situation?

Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang

In my opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang is actually not afraid of his wife, he will listen to his wife's advice, but this is not fear, but a kind of respect. We all know that the founding emperors during the Sui Dynasty were very afraid of their wives, Dugu, and didn't even dare to favor other women, and even the removal and establishment of the crown prince, Dugu to a certain extent, could also make the decision. However, Zhu Yuanzhang was not like this. After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he crowned Ma as the Empress and established her son as the Crown Prince, which was a kind of respect for her. Zhu Yuanzhang once tried to confer official titles on Empress Ma's friends and relatives many times, but all of them were refused. This shows that Empress Ma was sensible, understood the overall situation, and knew how to protect herself. Such a woman deserves Zhu Yuanzhang's respect.

Seeing this, will you still think that Zhu Yuanzhang is afraid of his wife? No one is perfect, Zhu Yuanzhang will also make mistakes, this time Queen Ma will remind him, Zhu Yuanzhang can also see the facts clearly, is very grateful to Queen Gao, so Zhu Yuanzhang itself can listen to Queen Ma's advice, but this behavior is not because of fear and blindly accept, but after his own judgment. It is said that after the death of Empress Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang's temper became even more tyrannical and unbearable, and he even abused and killed the ministers in the court when he was in the court. This shows the status of Empress Ma in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

So, Zhu Yuanzhang was not afraid of his wife, but more of respecting and appreciating his wife.

Birth of Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang's life was actually not good, and it can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's life should be the thing that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to erase the most after he became the emperor. So what is Zhu Yuanzhang's life?

Portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang's real name is Zhu Chongba. This name is actually a birthday date. Zhu Yuanzhang was born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the rule was particularly brutal, and it was difficult for the Han Chinese people to eat even the most basic meal, coupled with natural disasters every year, people were starved to death everywhere. Zhu Chong eight's family is not a big family, he was born a civilian, coupled with his ancestors are in the tax dodge, the whole family running around, Zhu Chong eight's family has several older siblings, he is the youngest, but also because of this, older siblings to him are still very loving.

Then the family dispersed, parents died early, Zhu Chong eight became an orphan, in order to beg a mouthful of food, Zhu Chong eight had to find a nearby temple as a monk, in the temple days are always subject to those who are the big monks scolding, Zhu Chong eight every day in charge of the temple's cleanliness and hygiene, sweeping the floor every day to the other senior monks to send tea, even if they were scolded only silently swallowed the gas to his stomach, but not long after the temple, he was the youngest, but also because of this, his brother and sister are still very loving. But not long after the temple's food is not enough, the presiding officer had to send the monks away, Zhu Chongba had to start wandering outside.

Outside a few years Zhu Chongzhang returned to the temple, because in the outside world to grow their own insights, even if the return to the temple is still thinking of pushing to the Yuan Dynasty to rule their own dynasties, and finally Zhu Chongzhang began their own 17-year war. After becoming the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang body also became his most concerned about things, he actually still inferiority complex in his heart, that's why he chose radical means to prevent others to mention his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang harem

Zhu Yuanzhang harem lively, more than forty consorts, more than twenty children, the smallest one princess or his 70 years old when he was born, the next for you to introduce Zhu Yuanzhang harem in detail.

The picture is Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait

Queen Ma is Zhu Yuanzhang's harem, she is Guo Zixing's daughter of righteousness, Zhu Yuanzhang can be the emperor of the queen Ma made a lot of force. Ma Xiuying married Zhu Yuanzhang when he was a soldier, she and Zhu Yuanzhang's affection is very good, can be said to be a woman. The goodness of their relationship can be seen in a small thing. Once, Zhu Yuanzhang was imprisoned for not giving Guo face and was not allowed to give him food or drink. Queen Ma then secretly put freshly steamed buns on her chest and gave them to Zhu Yuanzhang to eat. *** Scalded, Zhu Yuanzhang asked her why she didn't wait until it was cold before bringing it over. Empress Ma replied that it wouldn't taste good when it got cold. Zhu Yuanzhang was very touched after hearing this and moved that he had married such a virtuous wife.

It is reasonable to say that with so many concubines in Zhu Yuanzhang's harem, the relationship between him and the empress would have gone cold. I did not expect the empress also encouraged Zhu Yuanzhang consort, Zhu Yuanzhang therefore more love the original wife, during her illness day and night care, even the onlookers look at the emperor is a model husband. Zhu Yuanzhang asked the people to post the Chinese character "福字" in front of their doors during the New Year, but he did not expect that it would fall down. Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the people were against him and wanted to kill all the people who posted it upside down. Queen Ma thought of a way to say that the posting of the word "Fu" is the meaning of "Fortune", and Zhu Yuanzhang only got angry after hearing it. There are many other things such as this, because of the empress of the virtuous, Zhu Yuanzhang less kill a lot of people, Ma Huang Huang's people y respected by the concubines in the harem.

Zhu Yuanzhang harem life colorful, because of the existence of Queen Ma was not said to be later ****. His system of managing the harem was very strict, and anyone suspected of cheating would immediately be subdued and tortured. Zhu Di's mother is said to have been executed because of the suspicion of cheating on her, and he did not forget to let a courtesan serve him in his bed when he was old and blind.

What is Zhu Yuanzhang's genus

Zhu Yuanzhang, a peasant born and illiterate, managed to take advantage of the chaos to become emperor. At that time there was a folk rumor that the king is going to be born, is it related to what Zhu Yuanzhang belongs to? Next we will analyze in detail what Zhu Yuanzhang belongs to, with him when the emperor has nothing to do.

Picture of Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait

Zhu Yuanzhang is a dragon, from a young family is poor or a cowherd boy, at that time, the Yuan Dynasty is exhausted, the uprising around the world, people's livelihood is difficult. Zhu Yuanzhang's village also spread the plague, the family parents died. Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't make ends meet, so he became a monk in a temple. However, the temple was dissolved within a few days, and he began to wander around and beg for money. This wandering is three years, he lived in the days of hunger, can be said to suffer from ****. Three years of begging career is over, he returned to the temple.

This time there is a folk called White Lotus Sect, propaganda Ming King is going to be born, in fact, they say this Ming King is not at all referring to Zhu Yuanzhang. There was a man named Zhang Wuji in the Ming Church who was invincible in literature and martial arts, and he was the Ming King in the hearts of the people. He played an important role in the revitalization of the Ming Sect and made great contributions. When the world's people's hearts were first settled, he had the intention of retiring from the world, and was even more reluctant to become the Ming King.

So who should be the King of Ming? At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang fought the war diligently and shared his wealth with his soldiers, which won the hearts of the army. He also led an army that never harassed the local people wherever it went, so the people's hearts were also won over. Considering his good character and his birth as a farmer, he should not treat the people badly, so he left this opportunity to Zhu Yuanzhang. The above is just a rumor, the history books are not so recorded, but he was born a peasant and nothing special, not like Liu Bang so ruthless, if there is no force behind the promotion of the words, it is difficult to become the Lord of the world, it is difficult to be related to Zhu Yuanzhang genus what?

Zhu Yuanzhang in the end how many women

Zhu Yuanzhang queen a, concubines twenty-one are:

Queen: Queen Ma, the wild history of the name of Ma Xiuying, also known as Ma Lamei.

Consorts:

Cheng Mu Guifei Sun, Chenzhou. Brother Sun Fan, Marshal Ma Shi Xiong righteous daughter. Born Princess Huaiqing. Posthumous name Cheng Mu

Li Shufei, a native of Shouzhou, father Li Jie. There is no record of her giving birth to a son, but it is believed that Li Shufei gave birth to Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao, Qinmin Wang Zhu_, and Jin Gong Wang Zhu_

_Consort, who was a tribute woman from Goryeo, and is believed by some historians to have been the birth mother of Zhu Di, Emperor Chengzuo of Ming Dynasty, and Zhu_, King of Zhou Ding. The Nanjing Taishang Temple Records of the Ming Xiaoling mausoleum shrine: "the left one Shufei Li's birth Yiwen Prince, Qinmin Wang, Jin Gong Wang, the right one ___ consort generation of Zuwen Emperor, are enjoying the mausoleum hall, in charge of the ancestral temple, three hundred years has not been changed"

Hu Chongfei, Chu Zhaowang Zhu Zhen, posthumously known as Zhaoking.

Guo Ning Fei, Haozhou people, father Guo Shanfu, brother Guo Xing, Guo Ying. She gave birth to Zhu Tan, the king of Luwang

Consort Guo Hui, who gave birth to Zhu Chun, the king of Shu Xian, Zhu Gui, the king of Daijian, Zhu _, Princess Yongjia, and Princess Ruyang

Consort Cui Hui, who was posthumously named Zhuangjing Anrong, and who had no children

Consort Hu Shun, who gave birth to Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang Xian

Consort Zhao Guifei, who gave birth to Zhu Mou, the king of Shenjian

Consort Zheng An, who gave birth to Princess Fuqing

Consort Li Xian, who gave birth to Zhu _, the king of Tang King Ding Zhu_

Consort Liu Hui, who gave birth to King Ying Jing Zhu Dong

Consort Da Ding, who gave birth to King Qi Gong Zhu_ and King Tan Zhu Zi

Consort Ge Li, who gave birth to King Yi Li Zhu Yi

Consort Han, who was a woman who paid tribute to Goryeo. She gave birth to King Liao Zhu Zhi and Princess Hanshan

Consort Yu, who gave birth to King Qingjing Zhu_

Consort Yang, who gave birth to King Ningxian Zhu Quan

Consort Zhou, who gave birth to King Minzhuang Zhu_ and King Hanxian Zhu Song

Beauty Zhang, who gave birth to Princess Baoqing. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, she was lucky to be the only one exempted from martyrdom due to her daughter's young age

Ren Shunfei; life unknown

Gao, born Zhu_, King of Suzhuang

Pictures of the restored appearance of Empress Ma

Empress Ma was known as the "Empress of the Big Feet," although there is no record of her having big feet in the historical records. Although there is no record of her having big feet in history, this also shows that Empress Ma should not be very beautiful indeed.

However, such a not so beautiful wife, but by Zhu Yuanzhang favorite. Zhu Yuanzhang had five sons and two daughters with Empress Ma in his life, and most of the time he obeyed Empress Ma. And after the death of Queen Ma, Zhu Yuanzhang see "six palaces without color", never set up a queen, so it can be seen, Zhu Yuanzhang is really very favorite Queen Ma.

So, Queen Ma is just an ordinary folk woman, Zhu Yuanzhang why she has been favoring it? I think there are some main reasons.

One, Queen Ma's learning is extraordinary.

While Queen Ma was only the adopted daughter of Guo Zixing, her family was actually quite wealthy, and her parents attached great importance to her studies. Later, when her parents fled from their enemies and put her in Guo Zixing's house, Guo Zixing also attached great importance to her studies. In this way, Empress Ma not only knew how to write poems and paintings and read a lot of history books, but also knew how to embroider and knit. It can be said that Empress Ma knew all the requirements for women in those days. At the same time, she was additionally educated. This is very attractive to the poor boy Zhu Yuanzhang who has little culture himself.

Two, Empress Ma loved Zhu Yuanzhang y.

Since Guo Zixing married Empress Ma to Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma never disliked Zhu Yuanzhang for being uneducated or for being born a poor boy. Not only that, she loved and protected Zhu Yuanzhang with all her heart. When Zhu Yuanzhang offended Guo Zixing and was locked up and starved in prison, Empress Ma secretly cooked cakes and put them in her arms to give to Zhu Yuanzhang. She also bribed her foster mother and Guo Zixing's concubines to put in a good word for Zhu Yuanzhang in front of Guo Zixing. All of these were signs of Empress Ma's deep love for Zhu Yuanzhang. So, naturally, Zhu Yuanzhang also loved Empress Ma y.

Three, Empress Ma carefully raised Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son.

As a woman, it is easy to understand that she loved her own son very much. But let her love her husband's other children, this, from ancient times to the present day is very difficult to do. And Mrs. Ma did the best point, is that she is very loving Zhu Yuanzhang adopted those foster children. She treated her adopted sons even better than her own sons. When those adopted sons offended Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma always tried her best to put in a good word for them in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. This made Zhu Yuanzhang think that Empress Ma was very valuable.

Four, Empress Ma was very strict in educating her own sons.

If a son did not do well and did not make a good living, the emperor would often blame the mother, as has been the case since ancient times. It was easy for Zhu Yuanzhang's son to be a playboy due to the sudden big change in his status. Empress Ma did a very good job of this, and she was very strict with her son's education. King Zhou was one such playboy with licentious behavior. When he was out of town in a vassal state, Empress Ma, in order to continue to restrain him, gave Jiang Guifei an old dress that she herself wore and a wooden staff, so that when King Zhou behaved in a disorderly manner, she would put on Empress Ma's old dress and hold up the wooden staff to restrain him, which had a very good effect.

In addition, the crown prince Zhu Biao was even educated by Empress Ma and became a very good talent. This, completely relieved Zhu Yuanzhang's worries and made Zhu Yuanzhang very grateful to her.

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Fifth, Empress Ma was able to maintain a hard and simple nature.

Empress Ma is the mother of the nation, but she has been able to maintain the hard and simple nature. Her clothes are worn out, but she has been still wearing. And she also wove her own cloth in the palace itself. Of course, it's not that the whole Ming Dynasty needed Empress Ma to weave cloth, but as the mother of the nation, Empress Ma's demonstration of leading role was very obvious. This, too, was greatly appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Sixth, the suppression of foreign relatives to reassure Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is important to know that Zhu Yuanzhang is very wary of relatives interfere in politics, he asked the harem women must all come from the people, this is the reason. Empress Ma did not have many relatives because her parents were dead and she did not have any siblings. Coupled with her special attention to the side of the influence of the relatives, firmly prevented Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded relatives. In this way, it is very let Zhu Yuanzhang rest assured, not worried about Empress Lu, Wu Zetian and so on things happen.

Seven, Queen Ma does not overstep her position in politics.

Queen Ma often showed concern for the people and ministers and generals. However, she all of these, are by asking Zhu Yuanzhang to make decisions, never take the initiative to intervene in court affairs. This also made Zhu Yuanzhang feel at ease with her. Because of this reassurance, he especially felt that she was very valuable, so he loved her all his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang real looks restored

Zhu Yuanzhang is not really like the "Ming Fenghua" in the appearance of a collapsed face, and modern aesthetics is seriously inconsistent, this is a topic worthy of in-depth exploration, in the circulation to date there

This year's hit drama "Ming Fenghua", because of the play appeared a Zhu Yuanzhang portrait and was extremely controversial, online a chorus of vitriol. In the drama, Chengzu Zhu Di saw his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, in a dream, and he slowly turned around in a way that scared Zhu on the spot. And it's not only Zhu Di in the drama who is in shock, but also the countless viewers outside the screen.

Because that face is too scary, eyebrows up, nose and sharp and shrugged, expression hideous, _ face pointed chin, no beauty, even with a few points of horror, see people goosebumps are out. A "shoe plucked face" seems to God restore the famous portrait, but the audience did not buy, which is in their minds a generation of God's Lord Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's image is really too far away. So what does Zhu Yuanzhang really look like in history?

There are many versions of Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait that have been passed down in the world, and the portraits that can be seen are mainly focused on these two categories: a strange and a handsome one

The portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang that is currently being widely circulated is in fact a portrait that is described by later generations according to folklore and painted. According to folklore, Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance is very peculiar, a hemp face, long and sharp chin, slightly convex frontal bone, from the modern aesthetic point of view, is a standard ugly face.

Chenghua years served as the Ministry of War, Nanjing, Zhejiang, the right counsellor of the position of Lu Rong, in his book "Beans Garden Miscellany" has recorded such an anecdote: the court painter, there is Zhu Yuanzhang paintings are too realistic, and even offended him, directly ordered to be pulled out of the beheading. While other sensitive and smooth painter, but in the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, "in the shape of the outside, plus Mu Mu's face", the results made him very satisfied, rewarded.

Active in the Ming Jiajing years, served as the Ministry of War, Ministry of Public Works official Zhang Han, in his book "Pine Window Dreams," Volume VI, there is a record of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance "the face of the Great Ancestor, eyebrow show eye moment, nose straight lip long, face like a full moon, beard not feet, and folk rumors of strange and bizarre image is not like." It is also said that "the face of King Chengzu is very similar to that of King Taejo."

With the same point of view, there is the Ming dynasty famous collector, calligrapher Zhang Xuan, in his book "Doubtful Yew" book, his father went to the Yunnan government office, personally in the Qiangong Palace has seen the high emperor Taizu imperial appearance, and the same as the folk rumors. But Zhang Xuan never dare to take it seriously, and finally got to see the portrait of the real face of Emperor Tazu and Emperor Chengzu in other people's place, and couldn't help exclaiming "Emperor Gao is a beautiful husband!" Meaning that the previous version of the existing portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang is the real image.

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The most authoritative "History of the Ming Dynasty", Zhu Yuanzhang's looks are extremely praised

Chinese tradition has always been a descendant of the previous generation of the tradition of revision of the history of the Ming Dynasty as the most authoritative and systematic account of the history of the Ming Dynasty of the official history of the history of the Shunzhi dynasty of the Qing dynasty began in the second year of compilation of the compilation of the time of the long time, the efforts of the diligence of the description of the perfection of the history of the previous greatly exceeds the history of all. The compilation of the Ming History is well organized, the material is informative, the narrative is steady, and the writing is concise, which is praised by the historians, and it is a history book of high level. Therefore, the description of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance in the Ming History is authoritative.

According to the description of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance in the History of the Ming Dynasty, "he was majestic in appearance, and he had a strange bone in his head. The will is contour, people can not be measured." The first eight words said appearance, the latter eight words said temperament, it can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang looks temperament gives a very high evaluation, it is no wonder that the Qing Emperor Kangxi southern tour had personally to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum worship, the Qing Dynasty Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed very high praise.

According to the qing dynasty hu jing compiled "nan xun hall image ko", at that time the forbidden city of beijing nan xun hall, a *** collection of ming dynasty emperor and queen image *** count 63 frames, of which the vertical axis of 28, album page 35. And the most portraits is Zhu Yuanzhang, he has 13 portraits. And of these 13 portraits, there are only two that meet modern aesthetic standards.

The other 11 are almost all of a quality: forehead, chin, cheeks are protruding, standing eyebrow deep eyes, thick beard, bulging nose like garlic, arched mouth like a pig, in the so-called "five mountains towards the sky" of the shape, at the same time the face is covered with pockmarks. The TV series "Ming Fenghua" is almost a complete re-image of these portraits of Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance, a debut on the screen will surprise countless viewers, subverted the image of Zhu Yuanzhang in the minds of too many people.

Zhu Yuanzhang's real appearance: "is a beautiful husband!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's looks were sharply polarized, one odd and one handsome. He had 26 sons, fertility is very strong, but, from the existing Ming dynasty emperors portraits and Zhu Yuanzhang sons portraits, none of the "similar to the great-grandfather", here refers to Zhu Yuanzhang in the folk of the most widely circulated that a "strange look", which is obviously not very scientific!

In fact, most of the ancients were "appearance associations", and the beautiful ones were highly sought after, such as Pan An and Song Yu, not only by women, but also by men. Ugly people, like the Three Kingdoms period and Zhuge Liang Qiqi "phoenix brood" Pang Tong, because of the ugly appearance, although it is a learned man, but not by the East Wu scholar to see, in the encounter Liu Bei before, but also just a small county magistrate.

Zhu Yuanzhang joined the uprising in Haozhou, and with the appearance of his portrait, Guo Zixing probably felt sick to his stomach when he saw him, so how could he betroth his beloved daughter, Queen Ma, to him?

In fact, as early as in the early Ming Dynasty, there are two very different Zhu Yuanzhang heirloom portraits, the folk more blackmail, that Zhu Yuanzhang looks ugly, but most of the literati and official Zhu Yuanzhang is a "beautiful husband", the reason why there will be the official and folk of the two claims.

Tan Qian, a famous historian of the late Ming Dynasty, in his "Zao Lin Miscellaneous Chopsticks" or can give an answer, he believes that the version of folk circulation is because "the Great Ancestor is good at micro-execution to check the external affairs. Micro line fear of people to recognize its appearance, given by the princes and lords of the Royal Rong a, cover the doubt like also. The true width of the hidden temple."

That is to say, prefer "micro-performance of the external affairs" of the Ming Dynasty, in order to cover the face of the sky, to avoid being recognized by pedestrians its appearance, in the granting of the princes and lords of the Royal Palace of the Royal Palace of the portrait to the false image of the real Taizu Royal image has long been hidden in the temple. This is so, there are two very different versions of Zhu Yuanzhang portrait, and the real Zhu Yuanzhang, in fact, "is the beauty of the husband!"