Where did our portrait of Confucius come from today?

The portraits painted by Gu Kaizhi may come from antique paintings, palace secret rooms, and personal creations by celebrities.

The portrait of Confucius today has been handed down from generation to generation by our ancestors, and our descendants have restored it.

At present, it is commonly painted by Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty, and it should not be clear what Confucius really looked like, but no matter what Confucius's appearance is, it does not hinder his great achievements.

Confucius was a great thinker and educator in ancient China, the founder of the Confucian Gaofu School, and one of the world's most famous cultural celebrities.

The ancient paintings can't be believed, they are all painted by later generations, you look at the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang, the paintings of different people are very different. Confucius's name is Kong Qiu, the word Zhongni, and he is the second oldest, so some people scolded him during the Cultural Revolution.

I wonder which version of the portrait you're talking about? The portrait of Confucius was imagined by later generations, and the standard portrait of Confucius established in modern times was modified based on the portrait of Confucius who painted the holy Wu Daozi. His real name is Kongqiu.

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Confucius was a great thinker and educator in ancient China, the founder of Confucianism, and one of the world's most famous cultural celebrities.

Confucius's main achievements: the creation of Confucianism, the compilation of the Spring and Autumn Period, the revision of the Six Classics, and the establishment of private learning.

Introduction: Confucius (September 28, 551 B.C., April 11, 479 B.C.), surnamed Kong, Mingqiu, Zizhongni, was a native of Lu State in the late Spring and Autumn Period (now Qufu, Shandong), his ancestral home was Liyi in the Song Kingdom (now Xiayi, Henan), an ancient Chinese thinker, educator, and the founder of Confucianism.

There should be discrepancies, portraits provided by the Chinese. They picked one and used it as a reference. But from portrait to statue, the transformation is certainly not out of shape, and the translation of three-dimensional sculpture is interspersed in between.

I don't think it's a standard portrait, because Confucius is so far away that his real portrait may no longer exist, and the current portrait is imagined and painted by later generations based on historical records.

I think the portrait of Confucius we see now is not a standard portrait, but people rely on their own imagination to imagine what Confucius should look like.

It should be very close to the portrait of Confucius. Moreover, many of our portraits of the ancients are guessed based on written descriptions of the past or portraits left over from the past. I don't think these are very important, the main thing is that Confucius's ideas have remained, and this is the most important thing.

The real image of Confucius has never been painted by anyone, and the Chinese painted portraits of the deceased for worship, which was very late, and the era in which Confucius lived, obviously there was no such custom, and he could not have a portrait or statue to survive. However, in order to shape the image of Confucius, later generations must always have a standard, and this standard can only be found in some documents

The portraits left by Confucius were not standard, and people did not know much about painting at that time, and the popular portraits to worship ancestors were a long time later.

I don't think it's a standard image, after all, the time difference is too long, and people haven't actually seen it, but they just draw a rough picture according to the description in some books. But we all know that the descriptions of those ancient scholars are very different now, so it should not be a standard image.

Kong Yuqi's supplementary explanation is actually very problematic. The statues of Confucius preserved in the Confucian Temple during the Northern Song Dynasty were originally carved on wooden boards, and they were usually scattered in various chambers and placed out during sacrifices. However, due to the fragility of the wooden boards, several of them were later copied into stone for preservation.

The Confucius statue that Kangxi saw was carved in stone, and it was only a work of this period, and when it came to Gu Kaizhi and even Zigong, it was a bit of a tiger skin.

Of course, the portrait of Confucius we worship now is not the real appearance of Confucius, because Confucius did not paint a portrait during his lifetime, so he did not leave a portrait of himself later. Although there is no real portrait of him, later generations have painted many portraits of Confucius according to the text recorded in historical materials, and each person must have painted something different, so there is a prescribed standard portrait of Confucius for worship.

The portraits or stone carvings of Confucius are created by people in various dynasties according to the words of some historical works, which can be said to be varied, and in order to better spread Confucianism, the folk finally summed up the "Confucius Seven Ugly", which specifically refers to Confucius's nose and holes, white eyes, mouth and teeth, head and top, heavy ears and shoulders, hands over knees and uneven body These physical features.

Later, Confucius portraits should include these characteristics, because it is recorded that Confucius was a person with "different phases", and people judge whether a portrait of Confucius is not like or is true, depending on whether the portrait has these "different aspects".

History has been moving to today, the portrait of Confucius has also been handed down to this day, and the portrait of Confucius that we worship has gradually become unified, and the most widely circulated portrait of Confucius is the portrait of Confucius who is called "Tang Wu Daozi pen", which is also the result of the predecessors promoting the unity of Confucius portrait through the fame of Wu Daozi. In fact, no matter what the portrait of Confucius is, it is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the inheritance and development of Confucius's thoughts.

Confucius did not leave a real portrait of himself, but later generations made a portrait of himself based on the description of others in order to commemorate him.

I think the portrait of Confucius is now based on the textual description, and then an official version appeared.

That's right, the current portrait of Confucius was also painted according to someone who knew Confucius at that time, and it was not made out of thin air.

I think it may or may not be right, and I can't say it with too much certainty, after all, none of us have seen Confucius now.

Although Confucius did not leave a portrait of himself, the Confucius we worship now is mainly the spirit of Confucius.

Although Confucius did not leave a portrait during his lifetime, it is okay for us to pay homage, because Confucius was a great thinker and educator.

I think that although Confucius did not leave a portrait of himself during his lifetime, he was among his disciples. There are so many people, there must be someone who paints for him from memory.

Confucius did not leave a portrait of himself, and the Confucius we worship now is only a spiritual sustenance for Confucianism.

I think this incident should be seen as Confucius did not leave a portrait of himself before and after his death.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it's right or not, it's all the belief in our heart, if we don't respect Confucius, even if Confucius's painting can grow flowers, it will have no effect.

Looking at the relevant materials and folklore to corroborate each other, this is based on evidence, not fabrication。Nowadays, the painting technique used to be very high-end, and it was possible to draw portraits based on the details of the characters in the historical guess and the reference of the social groups at that time. For example, there is now a basis for the portrait of a criminal suspect in the criminal investigation process, and the similarity between this portrait and the actual person has reached a very high level.

Ordinary famous figures, most of them have sculptures in the folk, so that the portrait can also be the revival of this kind of statue, as for the characters of the longer period, such as the Yellow Emperor, are through pen and ink records or folklore to shape their edges. Deliberately thinking is that if the public thinks it is like that, the people of the world will deify and depict it on this basis. The one that is deeply rooted in people's hearts is the original margin.

It's just a matter of what people expect them to look like. The one that conformed to the public's aesthetics was retained, resulting in the portraits of the characters in the Khan Qingshu of later generationsBut what they are like in real life is known only to those who have seen them. As for whether it is ugly or beautiful, it is all from the perspective of human aesthetics.

Although there is no portrait of Confucius, the records of Confucius in the history books are still relatively uniform, so the painted Confucius is the same.

"Zhuangzi" and "Historical Records" recorded that Confucius's upper body was long and the lower body was short, and he was a little hunchbacked, with a high and convex forehead, and then a portrait that most resembled Confucius was stamped by Kangxi himself, and it was unified.

The appearance of Confucius was recorded in the history books, and it has been inherited since then, and everyone thinks that Confucius is like this, and many things have not been verified.

I think that although Confucius said that he did not leave half a portrait during his lifetime, the Confucius we worship today is so unified, mainly because there are still some Confucius temples.

Because the ** of Confucius recorded in many ancient books is almost the same, and in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi also stamped Confucius's **, so it was unified.

Regarding the image of Confucius, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" in "The Family of Confucius" mentions his appearance twice, and it can only be known that Confucius is tall and thin. Folklore has it that Confucius has "seven dews": "the eyes are white, the ears are exposed, the mouth is exposed, and the nose is exposed." ”

According to the records of the history books, it is drawn, and besides, it can't really be unified, so it looks like two people, so what should I do?

Many books describe the appearance of Confucius, the upper body is long and the lower body is short, so people have a unified understanding.

The appearance of this Confucius should be recorded, not fabricated out of thin air, and there will definitely be many versions, and the filtered ones are all in line with everyone's aesthetics.