As for the image of Confucius, most people think it is ugly. Later generations simply summarized it according to historical records. It is about eight feet tall, with upturned lips, protruding teeth, white eyes, nose facing the sky and threatening ears. Looks ugly. Put it in a popular way? Five dew? Appearance, extremes meet, and the base is extremely expensive. The more peculiar it is, the more memorable it will be.
Xunzi said? The shape of Zhong Ni, such as Mongolia. ? This is compared with the gods used by ancient people to ward off evil spirits and ghosts and funerals. This statement also means that Confucius' face is not very beautiful, and even a little scary.
Written by Confucius Family? Ding Wei's words stand at the top, so Confucius stands at the top like an anti-universe. Those who oppose the universe, if the house opposes it, are low in the middle and high on all sides. ? When Confucius was born, the fontanel was sunken. In fact, this phenomenon is not uncommon, but most of it will appear in early childhood, and then Confucius' portrait will draw this special point, which is really biased.
As an adult, Confucius' facial features were somewhat blurred. Except for two extremely abrupt front teeth in the portrait, most of them were imagined by later generations. There is actually a saying about these two front teeth.
There are many people with such front teeth, and Confucius is not the only one. When we look up the historical records, we will find that the legendary Zhou Wuwang, Li Yu and others all have such buckteeth. There are not a few people with buck teeth now, but in order to myth the image of Confucius in ancient times, the famous emperors and saints with buck teeth were specially found out and classified into one category. In ancient times, buck teeth became a symbol of the image of a saint. In addition, there are not many records of Confucius' face in ancient times, and the front teeth have become the only feature, which painters will deliberately increase when painting.
But strictly speaking, the symbol of this so-called statue of a saint is related to heredity. The descendants of sages with buckteeth are likely to have buckteeth, and so is Confucius' grandson.
In fact, his appearance was not deliberately described in Historical Records Confucius Family. We can see some clues from a short story. The story goes like this: Confucius was in office and lost contact with his disciples. Confucius is independent of Guo Dongmen. Zheng Ren or Zi Gong said: There is a man in the East Gate, who looks like Yao, whose neck is like a child, whose shoulders are like children, and who wants to be less than three inches, is like a lost dog. ? Hao Tao's expression is very strange. It is said that his face is blue and he has a mouth like a bird's mouth. The people in the story say that Confucius looks like him, which is really not a good face. Numerous refers to the thin and decadent appearance, that is to say, in Sima Qian's articles, Confucius is a tall and thin literati image.
After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Confucius had a fat image version, which is what we see now. This conflicts with the image of Confucius in Sima Qian's works. In fact, these historical classics have been handed down from generation to generation, and the image of Confucius has also undergone great changes. Even the description of the characters in Xunzi, which is closest to the Confucius era, can't be completely believed.
There is another interesting saying about Confucius' front teeth. At that time, because of poor diet, people had more or less oral problems and a lot of buck teeth. But not all buck teeth will become saints. Confucius' front teeth are clumsy, but they are out of place with people. His teeth are white and neat, and when they are exposed, they are very conspicuous, which is quite different from other crooked fangs and is called a rare statue of a saint by later generations. Nowadays, people's lives are more and more exquisite, and there are fewer conspicuous and neat front teeth.
Appearance theory is actually metaphysics, and the real attraction of Confucius lies in his talent and thought. It is of little significance to investigate this appearance problem carefully.