The most famous person who said Qin Shihuang was ugly was Mr. Guo Moruo. He mainly described Qin Shihuang according to Sima Qian's Historical Records: the king of Qin was a man, with accurate bees, long eyes, flattering birds and loud voices, but he was a tiger and a wolf. Here is Andy's description of Qin Shihuang, which can only explain the characteristics, but specifically, Sima Qian did not directly say whether he was beautiful or ugly. According to this historical data, Guo Moruo expressed his opinion in his works:
The first four items mentioned above are all physical defects, especially "loyal birds are fake". Today, chicken breasts mentioned in medicine are the characteristics of rickets. "Bee quasi" should be saddle nose, and "jackal sound" means bronchitis. Patients with rickets have abnormal bone development, so their chest and nose are diverse and often complicated with bronchitis or tracheobronchitis. With these three symptoms, we can make a diagnosis of rickets.
Tell me, if you have this symptom, what are you afraid of? What kind of manly temperament can you have? Can you be beautiful? No wonder people became more and more convinced that Qin Shihuang was ugly.
The best way to verify this is that there was a portrait at that time, but it was lost. The closest thing is the portrait of Qin Shihuang in Emperor Tu painted by Yan, but it is not convincing because he drew it according to the portrait of Emperor Wu of Jin and his own imagination. It can only be analyzed through some examples.
Judging from all kinds of records about Qin Shihuang's diligence in government affairs and wandering around, he should be strong and energetic, not like a weak person, not like a seriously ill person.
In addition, the founding emperor of a country may be ugly, but his concubines are all selected. After ten or even dozens of generations of genetic optimization, Guo Qin can't be much worse than Qin Shihuang's generation. Besides, his mother, Evonne, is a famous beauty. She is good at singing and dancing and charming. And his father, whether Wang Zizi Chu or wealthy businessman Lv Buwei, has never been critical of his appearance, and his father's genes are not bad.
Therefore, more people choose to believe Jane Bozan's guess about the appearance of Qin Shihuang in History of Qin and Han Dynasties: he is not the serious and terrible face imagined by later generations. If he has some mother's inheritance, he should be a handsome young man.