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History is always strikingly similar. Why do emperors have similar faces?
I don't think this is an absolute thing. I think every emperor looks different. After all, Longsheng's nine sons are different, let alone unrelated emperors.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is an ugly man today. It can be said that it is difficult to find a wife if there is no mine at home. However, another emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xiaozong, was a proper handsome boy. This shows that although they are all in the same strain, their looks are still very different. Like emperors of other dynasties, the difference may be even greater.

But there are also similarities. For example, they are very similar in temperament, because there is something imperial about Wang Ba. After all, I have been in a high position for a long time, and I can feel the domineering that belongs exclusively to the emperor. It is no exaggeration to say that I can feel it from afar. Not only that, an emperor standing in front of you gives you a different deterrent than others. The unfathomable power of heaven is not just talk. After all, the son of heaven represents providence to some extent.

But things are not absolute. There's always another explanation. For example, we know from the portraits that most of these emperors are similar in appearance, because for ancient painters, their painting skills may not be so superb, so when drawing a self-portrait of an emperor, they basically draw a rough outline. If there is nothing special about the emperor, the effect of painting is basically the same, so that's what we are thinking now.