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Chapter 119 Selfie

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, stunned again and again, not believing that this ugly monster was him.

He is obviously so wise, mighty and majestic, how could he be so ugly!

Who is maliciously defaming him? It's best not to let him know, otherwise he will be taken to Caishikou and beheaded.

As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had an extremely noble status. How could he allow someone to maliciously slander him?

Queen Ma on the side shook her head speechlessly. It was too outrageous for Chongba to be vilified like this.

If Chongba was really that ugly, she would never have married him in the first place.

It was precisely because he was tall, handsome, and witty that she fell in love with him.

People around Zhu Yuanzhang also expressed dissatisfaction. Their Majesty looked heroic and had a shoehorned face.

Zhu Yuanzhang: Anchor, we don’t look like this. I would like to ask the anchor, who is vilifying us?

Su Chen naturally knew that the real Zhu Yuanzhang did not look like this. After all, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still a soldier with nothing, it was impossible for Guo Ziyi to marry his adopted daughter Queen Ma to an ugly man.

"The Manchu and Qing Dynasties tampered with the appearance of His Majesty Hongwu when compiling the "History of the Ming Dynasty", so the ugly image passed down to later generations is the result of the Manchu Qing Dynasty deliberately discrediting him."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared. He knew that the Manchus were maliciously vilifying the matter.

Zhu Yuanzhang: @张婷宇, it was you who edited the history of the Ming Dynasty to vilify us, so we will remember you.

Zhang Tingyu:......

Zhang Tingyu felt uncomfortable in his heart. This was what Emperor Qianlong requested, and he had no choice!

He is a Han Chinese, so there is no need to smear the Han Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait looks like this is because Emperor Qianlong forced him to do this.

"Even if the figures passed down from ancient times reach our later generations, we don't know the true appearance of the ancients at all, because the figures in ancient times are not realistic at all."

"From Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng, to Han Wu Emperor Liu Che, to Tang Taizong Li Shimin, or other emperors' portraits, this is the case. They look very abstract and not like real people at all."

"Our current portrait painting method focuses on authenticity. The painting will be what the real person looks like."

Su Chen briefly explained the characteristics of ancient portraits, and then introduced the painting methods of modern portraits.

Although Su Chen's words attracted the approval of many ancient people, some people still raised objections.

Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: The focus of portrait painting is on the charm. If it is realistic, it would be too tacky.

Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty: We have always used painting techniques to care whether figures are realistic. However, it is understandable that the painting methods of later generations have changed. Nothing has remained unchanged since ancient times.

Zhang Zeduan of the Northern Song Dynasty: I am very interested in the portraits of later generations. I wonder if the anchor can show us the portraits of later generations.

Not only these insiders, but also laymen are also interested in the portraits of later generations. They want to see how realistic they are and how realistic the paintings are like real people.

In fact, when many people ask an artist to draw a portrait, they also hope that the artist can make the painting more realistic, preferably exactly the same as the real person, so that future generations will know what their ancestors looked like.

But these painters seem to have some stipulated rules. They have to paint realistically, and there is nothing they can do about it.

Su Chen was naturally happy with Zhang Zeduan's request.

Then he found some pictures on the Internet, all of which were paintings in which art students painted real heads.

After he looked at it again, he couldn't help but marveled, it was as realistic as what was captured by the camera.

"The anchor will show you the portraits painted by later generations of artists." Then Su Chen showed the pictures on the tablet to everyone one by one.

The ancient people from all over the world looked at the real person and then at the portrait on the drawing board. They were all shocked and took a breath.

The painting is so realistic that it shocked the ancients.

No matter the color or the details on the face, they are exactly the same as the real person. They are completely carved from the same mold.

Have you ever seen such a magical painting, as if a living person was sealed on the drawing board.

Ying Zheng: Is this the painting of later generations? It was really an eye-opener for me.

Yang Guifei: I don’t know how later generations painted it, how could it be so lifelike. It would be great if you could draw one for me too.

Song Huizong: The painting techniques of later generations are completely different from those of our Song Dynasty. Even I cannot draw such realistic portraits.

Zhang Zeduan: The portrait painting methods of later generations are indeed unique. They are very different from those of the Song Dynasty. I also want to learn from them.

Zhu Yuanzhang: It would be great if our Ming Dynasty also had such masters of painting. Then we could paint our heroic and majestic appearance.

Seeing everyone acting like they had never seen the world, Su Chen's vanity exploded.

Seeing that everyone was almost finished discussing, Su Chen changed the subject and went straight to tonight's topic.

"In our later generations, there is a magical thing called a camera. The function of a camera is similar to that of painting."

"It's just that the camera is more convenient. After taking a picture, you can print it out, and the scene you took will be realistically imprinted on the photo."

"The product we are selling tonight is Polaroid. It is a point-and-shoot camera that is very easy to operate and easy to understand at a glance."

Many ancient people looked at each other in shock after hearing this, completely unable to imagine what the camera the anchor was talking about was.

It's something I've never seen before, and I can't figure it out even if I try hard to think about it.

But some smart people probably understand what the camera is about.

It's like a painter painting a person and finally drawing the person's appearance on the drawing.

The function of the camera is to draw a person's appearance on paper through some magical function.

If you look at it this way, a camera is like a painter.

It's just that they can't figure out how the camera does it. After all, it sounds a bit incredible.

Seeing everyone's doubts, Su Chen also understood that no one would understand unless he demonstrated it live.

"The anchor knows that many people have no idea about cameras. Now the anchor will show you how to take Polaroid photos."

Then Su Chen took out the Polaroids he had prepared in advance and showed them to everyone while explaining them.

"Have you seen that when the lens in front is pointed at the scene to be photographed, the scene will appear on the screen of this square, and then just press this button. There is film in the camera, and the scene captured will be printed on the film. It was printed, and the final photo came out of the top port.”

After Su Chen told everyone, he then demonstrated it himself in front of all the ancients.

He pointed the Polaroid at himself and pressed the button.

After a while, a color selfie was printed.

Ancient people from all dynasties saw the anchor's avatar realistically printed on the photo, and they were all shocked and dumbfounded as if they had seen a ghost.

(End of this chapter)