The earliest record that Zhang Fei had a beard and was different from ordinary people's beard was not the official history, but a popular literary form in Sui and Tang Dynasties, called water puppet show. Zhang Fei's puppet image is a beard across his face, which makes children feel funny when they see it. Li Shangyin vividly recorded this scene with poems: "Or tease Zhang or laugh at Deng Ai."
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Pinghua became popular. Folk artists gave Zhang Fei a relatively big "facelift" according to their own aesthetics of heroes and their own personality characteristics, which roughly shaped his savage image.
For example, the description of Zhang Fei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the Yuan Dynasty goes like this: "But there was a man named Zhang and Yide, who was from Fanyang, Yanbang County. He was born with a leopard head and leopard eyes, a beard, more than nine feet long and a voice like a giant clock. "
According to Yuan Zaju, some people say that in Yuan Zaju, such as Lu Bu of Dan Zhan, Xiao Pei of San Chu and Zhang Fei, the actors are all big eyes and square faces. Although it is a bad face, it mainly represents justice on the stage of national drama, just as a red face represents a loyal minister and a white face represents a traitor, it does not mean that Zhang Fei really has a bad face.
So Zhang Fei, who took off his makeup, was a handsome man with big eyes and a square face, so people compared the face of a handsome man to that of Zhang Fei at that time.
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There is a saying that Zhang Fei is good at painting and calligraphy, and "painting beauty is his lifelong hobby". Based on the cliff stone carvings in the northeast of Quxian County, Sichuan Province, it is suspected that Zhang Fei's handwriting, and according to the Tibetan paintings of the Qing Dynasty: "Zhang Fei, a native of Zhuozhou, is good at painting beauty."
However, with the excavation of archaeology, the Confucian general Zhang Fei is untenable. First of all, the so-called original works of Zhang Fei in past dynasties have all been proved to be false. For example, Zhang Fei's Inscription at once tells that before the Hanzhong War, after Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Zhang He were defeated in Bashu, Zhang Fei became poetic and wrote, "General Han flew, ten thousand people died, and the thief made a note immediately."
Experts' archaeological research, as well as the geographical location of Hanzhong's decisive battle with Zhang Fei and Zhang He in Langlang, still believe that this monument is not Zhang Fei's masterpiece.
There is not a word about what Zhang Fei looks like in the History of the Three Kingdoms. When I wrote a biography of Zhang Fei, I wrote all about eating, drinking, making friends, fighting and marrying, but I didn't add a "big photo" to Zhang Fei.
According to the chronology, Zhang Fei died in AD 22 1 year, and Chen Shoucai was born after 12 years. If Zhang Fei's appearance belongs to the characteristic kind, whether it is good-looking or ugly, the author will not forget it unless it belongs to the middle. It can be seen that Zhang Fei may be a public face, and no one pays attention to it among thousands of people.
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