What did Empress Wu Zetian look like?
Updated: 2015-01-07 11:16
(Chinaculture.org)
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Chinese actress Fan Bingbing in the TV drama The Empress of China. [File photo] |
According to ancient records, Wu Zetian had big eyes, a long neck, a big face and a square forehead. Anyway, Wu Zetian would not look like Fan Bingbing, who has the little face of a modern beauty. Moreover, maybe Wu Zetian was a woman who had a face similar to a man's, as the Tang Dynasty regarded chubbiness as a standard of beauty and feminine temperament was not popular then.
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