Zhang Fei is also the object of hot discussion. I don't know when the "mysterious" statement that Zhang Fei is a beautiful man was made public. At that time, many people knew that Zhang Fei was a handsome man. More importantly, Zhang Fei is good at calligraphy and can draw beautiful women.
The reason for saying "mysterious" is that this statement seems to have no source, because there is no "The History of the Three Kingdoms" or even "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and both of them have spanned 1500 years. Why did this statement suddenly appear? Next, let's briefly talk about what is going on.
First of all, is Zhang Fei really a handsome guy?
According to official historical materials such as Pei Songzhi's Notes on the Three Kingdoms and Wei Lue, Zhang Fei is only magnificent and powerful, but he doesn't say handsome. Although Chen Shou cherishes ink like gold, if Zhang Fei is really good-looking, I believe he will still mention it. After all, Zhou Yu's "beauty" and Zhuge Liang's "great appearance" have all said that even Guan Yu said that "beauty must be kept."
Some people say that Zhang Fei's two daughters are queens, and their face value must be high, while their daughters usually follow their father, so Zhang Fei must be a handsome boy. Not to mention that genetic behavior is very complicated, just saying that the ancient emperors and queens also "talked about morality regardless of skin color" is more important. If it is true, let's look at Li Jingfei who played Zhang Fei in 1994. He looks magnificent, which has nothing to do with handsome and heroic spirit, but his daughter is really beautiful!
In fact, Zhang Feishuai was not born today. In the Taoist Garden in the early Qing Dynasty, Zhang Fei was said to be "beautiful and bearded", while Yang Shen in the early Ming Dynasty even publicly said that Zhang Fei was good at calligraphy and painting.
Secondly, is Zhang Fei really good at calligraphy and painting?
At this point, the most important thing to say is "write at once". In AD 2 16, Zhang Fei defeated Zhang He, one of the five generals of Wei State, and recorded his achievements with a spear, and wrote: "Zhang Fei, a general of Han Dynasty, led thousands of people to death, and the first thief broke the Ba League." This first appeared in Yang Shen's All-Sichuan Literature and Art Annals.
At first glance, these characters are indeed official scripts of the Han Dynasty, and Hu Shengyou of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty also collected rubbings. But in fact, experts have already proved that this is a "fake engraving" from the font, calligraphy and content. In fact, problems can be found only from the aspect of lettering. Who can carve words on a stone with a spear? Really when Zhang Fei is a hero in martial arts novels!
At this point, even in the rigorous textual research of Red Cliff, there are scenes of Zhang Fei's writing.
Yang Shen even said that Zhang Fei "likes painting beauties", which is also false. You know, many of Zhang Fei's contemporaries were painters and calligraphers, and Chen Shou also mentioned it. For example, Cao Buxing is so famous that almost no one knows it; Sun Hao, the last emperor of Wu, had a good calligraphy, and Zhuge Zhan, Zhuge Liang's son, was a calligrapher.
These people are not as famous as Zhang Fei. Chen Shou recorded it conveniently, and they were all good at writing and drawing. Why didn't he mention Zhang Fei's calligraphy and painting? Moreover, why didn't Zhang Fei's paintings and calligraphy appear from the late Han Dynasty to the Song and Yuan Dynasties? This can only show that Zhang Fei is really not a painter, let alone a beauty painter.
Today's materials are much richer than those in Yang Shen's time, but none of them can support Zhang Fei's view that he is handsome and has good calligraphy and painting. On the contrary, it proves that this view is unreliable.
This seems to be a celebrity worship psychology. People like a person and try to make him perfect. Zhang Fei was the first hero in the Three Kingdoms in Yuan Dynasty, and his martial arts was better than that of Lu Bu. Today, he said that he is a handsome boy and is good at painting and calligraphy. This is probably the mentality.
In fact, why should we make the ancients perfect? Isn't Zhang Fei not handsome